This Top Ten presents practical tips for preparing and managing a software audit in the United States.
Many businesses and organizations use public cloud services. In-house counsel can play a key role with the business through the selection, negotiation, and implementation of such solutions. This Top Ten includes key practical tips drawn from experience as in-house counsel.
This QuickCounsel lists ways to bring your global legal team together.
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This multi-PAK provides a high level overview of merger control, restrictive agreements and practices, monopolies and abuse of market power, and joint ventures in various jurisdictions. In particular, it covers relevant triggering events and thresholds, notification requirements, procedures and timetables, third party claims, exclusions and exemptions, penalties for breach, and proposals for reform.
This article focuses on the challenges involved in the discovery phase of litigation when dealing with foreign companies. Understand what obstacles can impede the discovery process and what legal measures, if any, may be taken to avoid these complications.
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.
Drawing on the tips imparted by panelists of a recent conference hosted by law firm Norton Rose, this article assesses the business opportunities opening up to international companies in the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC).
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 India.
We have all heard about big data breaches: millions of customer records at risk, credit monitoring for an extended period of time, etc. What about the smaller run-of-the-mill security or privacy breaches? Can we prevent them? Do we have to report them? How do you set up incident response reporting? How do you do a security risk assessment to mitigate your risks?
This list presents key issues to consider regarding joint venture and consortium agreements.
Covers how to implement a legally credible records management program in light of the Sarbanes-Oxley legislation, changes in the sentencing guidelines and proposed changes to e-discovery rules.
Hackers have been increasing their attacks on US companies, but there also are threats from inside companies by employees and contractors. This resource provides examples of common threats involving employees, such as phishing attempts, and explains the role of in-house counsel in addressing those threats.
The content of this handout supplements the course materials on the drafting of dispute resolution clauses.
This issue discusses in-house salaries, electronic monitoring in the global workplace, building successful relationships with work councils in Europe, and more.
When leading an internal investigation, you must be prepared to justify who and what you believe. Learn when to hire outside, how to structure internal interviews, and the components of the credibility evaluation pyramid, so you can assess with confidence.
This QuickCounsel is intended to assist counsel and human resource professionals in quickly understanding the basic concepts of social media employment issues.
This Quick Counsel provides a high level overview of key aspects of Australian contract law for those doing business in Australia or entering into contracts governed by Australian law.
Caught between the pressures of social and environmental responsibility and financial performance? The benefit corporation model offers a solution to balance out these demands.
The environmental due diligence required for purchasing a commercial property can be daunting. Which of these assessments best fit your business goals?
Learn from representatives of prime upper- and lower-tier subcontractors how to review, track and explain the numerous federal acquisition rules (FARs) that are often incorporated by reference into contracts of all sizes and types, including the differences between optional and mandatory flow-down clauses and exceptions to incorporated clauses in other non–FAR related statutes.
This article provides an in-depth look at data privacy in the modern world. Specifically, it states that data privacy statutes, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's (ACCC’s) Digital Platform Inquiry’s recommendations, and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) are insufficient to address issues with data privacy. However, it stresses the need to redraft statutes to protect the rights and interests of individual humans to live without the risk of “excessive intrusion” in order to ameliorate problems with data privacy.
Getting the Deal Through is delighted to<br />publish the ninth edition of Arbitration, a<br />volume in our series of annual reports,<br />which provide international analysis in<br />key areas of law and policy for corporate<br />counsel, cross-border legal practitioners and<br />business people.
The chaos of a merger or acquisition demands decisive action, even after it seems completed. Try these preemptive strategies.
Law departments handle a diverse scope of legal issues. With limited resources, how can a legal department access the information it needs when it needs it without reinventing the wheel every time? The speakers will discuss how they organize information to make it readily available to their teams, using such tools and processes as wikis, company sharefiles, keywords, automatic electronic reminders, cloud services, instruction manuals, and checklists. They will also explore best practices on strategies for implementation and continuous improvement in the use of processes and technologies.
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