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Inside Voice is a new column featuring articles authored by the leaders of ACC's legal services. Here, they reveal insight on the pressing trends affecting in-house legal practice and corporate legal departments across the globe.

If done well, an information governance investment will not only pay for itself over a short window of time, but actually save the organization potentially tens of millions of dollars a year moving forward.

This article covers several major considerations for when you respond to data requests and how to ensure that data privacy violations do not occur.

In the area of mergers and acquisitions, trade secrets can provide unique challenges to the due diligence team evaluating the target company. Regardless of whether a target company has strategically and formally protected these assets, trade secrets are an inevitable part of the sale or purchase of any company, big or small.

This article offers in-house counsel a crash-course in data-security regulation and litigation, focusing on the liabilities stemming from the disclosure of customers’ personally identifying information (PII). We will conclude by examining some key takeaways to help your company minimize its data-security litigation risk.

Familiarity with open source software and its copyright implications will help you protect your company from liability and enable it to make more informed decisions.

For Eliza, becoming a lawyer was a natural choice.

In our industry we have many top challenges, from complex space vehicle programs, to business growth to volume of work. One of our greatest challenges, among these, is the drive to increase diversity and inclusiveness in the aerospace and defense industry, and especially in the practice of law.

What I like most about being in-house is working closely with my clients, not only on their legal issues and challenges, but also their business challenges, opportunities and strategies.

If you know people who are new to in-house or have new roles in their companies and are not ACC members, do them a favor and encourage them to join ACC.