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This article looks at an approach to setting up a formal interviewing plan for a forensic engagement.

Promoting volunteerism can benefit your department and your company. Learn how to create, maintain and publicize your company's volunteer programs.

This Leading Practices Profile, which updates 2010’s Leading Practices in Privacy and Data Protection: What Companies Are Doing, examines the data security and privacy practices of six companies with operations spanning the globe.

As much as we need to impart the value of hard work and lead by example, that example should also include the importance of prioritizing what and who we value. We must show, not just tell, those who matter to us that they do matter to us.

Tablets and smartphones are enabling us to leave our laptops – increasingly our primary PC – in the office. The large number of apps available and the similarities between iOS and Android devices mean that you can really choose the device and individual apps that best suit how you practice. As corporate counsel, you may need to thread a needle more carefully using personal technology on the corporate network or making corporate technology truly functional. Once you have fortified your device with encryption and secured it, you can become truly productive.

This Quick Overview focuses on special rules for foreign buyers, key hurdles, and recent regulatory changes impacting Mergers & Acquisitions (M&As) in India that in-house counsel should know about if they plan M&As in India. In addition, it will outline key laws governing M&As in India.

Any company or individual is subject to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ("FCPA") if it directly or indirectly causes an act or effect in the U.S. in the furtherance of a corrupt payment to a public official. In particular, U.S. parent companies of Mexican subsidiaries can be held liable under the FCPA, if they are found to have directed or been involved in the corrupt activities of their Mexican subsidiaries. This QuickCounsel covers how the FCPA affects how business is conducted in Mexico.

Learn ten tips to negotiate large corporate contracts more effectively. In this short article, Lydia Montalbano, Group Legal Counsel, CRH Nederland B.V., discusses key strategies for effective negotiations, including in international situations where the negotiating parties are from different countries.

This article provides an insight on differential voting rights (DVR) and India’s regulatory framework for the issuance of shares carrying DVRs (DVR Shares).

This case law is on the issue of whether the equitable defenses of laches should apply in this case to bar the recovery of any pre-filing damages for infringement that NexTag might owe LendingTree and whether LendingTree should be equitably estopped from obtaining any relief on its infringement claims against NexTag.

Learn about the French employment law issues regarding the employment status of workers who perform services using digital platforms.

Are you dreading performance evaluation time in your department? Fear not. Help is at hand. No, we can’t tackle them for you, but the samples and advice in this article should go a long way toward helping you achieve your goal.

As in-house counsel everywhere take on more active roles within the company, many are beginning to feel the looming pressures of corporate interests. To adapt to this new reality, stop thinking of legal as a profession and start thinking of it as a business.

That first year as general counsel can be pretty rough. But when it comes to Canadian law, there are some things you don't have to learn the hard way.

This is a sample code of conduct and ethics policy for employees and directors.

Make sure you know how to conduct an informal investigation properly to avoid adding to the problem.

In-house counsel can play a vital role in their company’s blockchain pilot program. And as a cross-functional advocate working with senior leadership, you will be responsible for ensuring smoother digital operations.

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

As technology advances and changes some aspects of the way law is practiced, timeless qualities of legal departments persist. The value of diversity is still as ageless as quality wine. And the best law departments capitalize on the experiential and global diversity of its lawyers.

Public companies and their in-house counsel face new challenges as activist shareholders are demanding a greater voice in the boardroom. At the same time, engaged shareholders and their counsel tread the mine field of regulation as they seek to influence the governance agenda in the companies they own and to hold boards and management accountable for underperformance. Recently, some of the most high profile proxy contests have involved U.S. hedge funds targeting Canadian public companies. In this panel, hedge fund in-house counsel will face off against public company in-house counsel, fresh from their recent battles, to share their experiences and insights gained. Outside counsel with experience on both sides of the fight will discuss how in-house counsel can successfully steer their boards and management through the process.

The key to long-term, sustainable business results in the Asia Pacific region is hiring and retaining the right staff.

Providing law-related training for non-legal clients (i.e., for managers and, to a lesser degree, non-managerial personnel) is an important function of every in-house legal department.

Learn how public companies in Canada can structure their board, develop policies and procedures, handle disclosure obligations, and recent corporate governance developments.