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This is an article on lawyers and leadership from the American Bar Association Center for Professional Responsibility, Standing Committee on Professionalism
2010 Volume 20 No. 3.

US companies venturing overseas have to be aware of all of the legal issues that can arise as a result of joint ventures, and in-house legal departments need to know how to navigate the risks. This article details how you can make sure that your company is following proper foreign business practices.

This presentation promotes an interactive discussion of the duties and liabilities of directors and officers in the United States, Canada, and other jurisdictions. Of particular interest to in-house counsel in organizations with international operations, the program will focus on rights, liabilities, and other topics of unique importance to directors and officers of your company’s international subsidiaries and affiliates. The duties that are owed, by international directors, to other US-based directors, the corporation, and its shareholders are often scrutinized in the context of change of control transactions, conflict-of-interest disclosure, breach of confidentiality, and insider trading inquiries. The panel and audience will review a number of hypothetical scenarios and consider where conflicts can arise and how they might be proactively managed.

Your company wants to expand internationally, but you know almost nothing about doing business in other countries. If your company is too small for an international office, what do you do if you just want to experiment and see whether you can generate revenue? Should you use independent contractors? Outsource? Hire employees? While you may not be able to learn all the laws of different countries, you can learn to identify key considerations for your clients and make solid business arguments for legal compliance. Learn about issues that should be considered and gather information for some specific jurisdictions.

Do you know where to start when seeking venture capital financing? There are a lot of key investment terms to consider, and some approaches to these terms favor the VC, while others favor the company. Before signing the dotted line, be sure to understand the expected timeline and your approach to the process.

This Leading Practices Profile examines knowledge sharing and management practices of six companies and two law firms. Organizations featured in this Profile described practices and approaches for managing and sharing knowledge across a variety of industries, as well as law firms.

People, companies and even governments generate an enormous amount of data about themselves every day. From ordering a latte without foam to negotiating a major contract, there is a growing perceived need to collect and mine the resulting data for useful insights about markets, customers, competitors or competitive threats. How can we do this? What legal issues surround the collection of this data? What issues surround the use of the data? If your company is using big data, what should it be concerned about? How does it stay out of trouble and out of the headlines?

This is a list of resources to help start a pro bono program.

Overview of perfection and priority of security interests in Canada.

This ACC Docket article provides in-house counsel with an overview of the procurement process at larger companies, specific clauses in vendor agreements that are important to review before entering into a contract with a vendor, and a guide to procuring clean energy for your company.

This Fraud Awareness and Detection training course will help you recognize situations that raise issues of fraud and to help you deal with them appropriately and effectively. (Licensed for use in classroom settings only and not for distribution in any form.)

Recent developments from CFIUS signal a renewed vigor to protect US national security. In this Client Alert, Latham attorneys highlight the recent developments related to national security investment reviews and outline its implications.

A proactive drafter would not regard he Metz Farms v. Fisher Sand & Gravel case as validating an escalation clause which simply refers to the Consumer Price Index (CPI). Instead, the case illustrates how very problematic and uncertain such a provision is, requiring at the least, extrinsic evidence which may be conflicting, and at worst, invoking a ruling of void for vagueness by a less sympathetic court.

Discuses several measure that you can take to protect your company and minimize the risk when a customer's or supplier's financial situation worsens and includes sample forms.

Technology procurement has many pitfalls. These tips from a technology acquisition expert will help make your large technology procurement project a success.

On March 7, 2023, the Data Protection Commission (“DPC”) published its Annual Report for 2022 (the “Report”). 2022 marked the fourth full year of the implementation of the GDPR and saw significant effort by the DPC to ensure compliance with the GDPR across Ireland. The most frequent GDPR queries and complaints received by the DPC related to Access Requests; Fair Processing; Disclosure; Direct Marketing; and the Right to be Forgotten.

Traditional manual analysis of patent documents is no match for the flood of patent data inundating your office. Despite limits, current automated patent analysis tools can help you stay competitive. This article describes the tools available and how you can apply them. You can start using these tools to support cutting-edge strategies, such as patent radar, precision patenting, and right-sizing of patent portfolios. You can create small, powerful, blocking patent portfolios that will discourage competitors while enabling you to forge new partnerships and prune deadwood from your patent orchard. Why use a handsaw when you can use a power saw?

In this article, learn the more material changes brought about by the GDPR (those likely to have a bigger impact), comments on the likely impact of the proposal on businesses, and suggests action points that businesses can begin to address in the lead-up to the measure coming into force.

This QuickCounsel will cover who will be included in the Order's definition of "critical infrastructure" from the private sector, what specific standards will be adopted to enhance cybersecurity, and what incentives will be created to encourage private sector adoption of the selected standards.

Timothy Phillips, senior counsel at the American Cancer Society, discusses a variety of tax issues facing charities and nonprofits.

For many companies, the potential of big data is clouded by uncertainty as to how programs should be designed and maintained to avoid legal and regulatory risk. This is especially true because the concept of what constitutes consumer harm – in the field of privacy generally but especially with regard to big data analytics – is rapidly evolving. This InfoPAK provides an overview of legal and regulatory considerations businesses should contemplate when developing programs that rely on big data coupled with tools that help apply those legal and regulatory considerations to real world situations.

This survey explores the areas of personal career history, personal demographics, profile of the corporate legal department and the use of legal research and other products and services.

Discusses legal outsourcing, consumer and commercial customer protection, and the state of technology in Canada.

As clients seek more cost-effective legal services, innovative law firms have begun to transform their service delivery models and new providers have appeared, enabling a transformation in which law firms realign their business models with clients' interests. Is this the end of in-house lawyers?

This session targets communicating key antitrust topics to your sales team.