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You may be an accomplished orator, litigator or debater. In front of a captive audience of children, however, even the savviest speaker can feel pressure. This "Take Our Sons / Daughters to Work Day" veteran has outlined a tested - and - true formula for sure success.

The agenda for Proxy Season 2013 included: pay for performance, including peer group construction methodology and realizable pay; board responsiveness to shareholder proposals; pledging, hedging and margin accounts; special issues for Canadian pay for performance; European policy updates; and board tenure in Hong Kong and Singapore. This panel will consider the handling of these issues and the lessons learned from 2013 for best practices going into the next proxy season.

This Wisdom of the Crowd (ACC member discussion) addresses battle of the form situations between a seller's standard terms and conditions, and terms mentioned on the buyer's purchase order. This resource was compiled from questions and responses posted on the forum of the IT, Privacy & eCommerce ACC Network.

Guidance on transferring management/ownership of a company in Canada. Includes guidance on keeping business in the family or selling to an outsider.

If you had only known you can learn everything you need to know about surviving the transition to in-house law practice from Duran Duran, The Breakfast Club, and Prince, you might have spent a lot more time at concerts than in the library during the 1980s, right? Phil Strauss translates the lessons in his guide to the facts of in-house life.

This Wisdom of the Crowd, compiled from responses posted on the Employment & Labor Committee eGroup, addresses issues regarding potential abuse of the Family and Medical Leave Act ("FMLA").

Learn about developments from 2021 in the Technology, Media and Telecom sector in the Asia and Asia-Pacific region (focus on Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, New Zealand, Singapore, Vietnam).

In this ACC guide, explore key aspects of managing employees' use of social media, in light of guidance from the US National Labor Relations Board ("NLRB").

Get an update on the judicial and administrative interpretation of the statute since its passage and the current status of competition in telecommunications industries.

This material focuses on learning the makeup of an effective compliance program. Specific information discussed includes the Federal Sentencing Guidelines and their application to corporate compliance programs, and understanding the consequences of not having a robust compliance program.

This article addresses knowing who is authorised to represent a legal entity and what can you do if directors representing a legal entity are not authorised to do so.

This InfoPAK (now known as ACC Guides) provides a practical guide to a Q&A that gives an overview of the legal system; foreign investment, including restrictions, currency regulations and incentives; and business vehicles and their relevant restrictions and liabilities in China.

Investors planning to perform construction activities on the territory of Belarus have to take into account new conditions for carrying-out these activities in Belarus. This article will discuss the new requirements.

Demands for email, hard drives, and backup tapes are now standard in almost every case. When does an obligation attach to preserve these documents? How do you search for them, while maintaining privilege and work product protections? This excerpt of a recent roundtable discussion provides the key to the complex world of electronic discovery.

This QuickCounsel shows how US employers can do better by proactively implementing policies and programs that are inclusive of the transgender community.

A new threat, derivative to the immediate damage of data breaches, has arisen. Class action suits from affected customers, or shareholder class litigation are common, albeit largely unsuccessful thus far.

There are many reasons why companies migrate to Switzerland: lower corporate
income tax rates, a stable and predictable legal environment, and a flexible labor law. There are also disadvantages. Before you pack up and head for the snowy Alps, learn more about what relocation really entails.

Any US corporation with multinational operations and an unoptimized corporate structure that would benefit from reorganization of its operations along regional lines and responsibilities should consider whether a principal or other efficiency and profitability promoting restructuring might achieve similar benefits for it.

A discussion of the costs and benefits of using electronic board books as opposed to physical ones. Includes input from members of the the Corporate & Securities Law Committee eGroup.

Learn about registration by data controllers and data processors under Kenya's Data Protection Act.

These days, it seems that everything from meat to movies gets a letter grade. So, what about law firms? CSX Corporation decided to use the system to its advantage. By implementing a variety of practices, including “scorecard” evaluations, CSX was able to redefine its relationship with outside counsel. After all, who doesn’t want an A+?

General counsels are always under pressure to transform legal departments and through contracts, the legal function’s contribution to the bottom line is clearer and makes it easier to build the business case for a technology enabled and workflow optimised legal department.