Read Chairman White's final Chair's Message as he gets set to turn over the reigns to the new Chair at ACC's Annual Meeting.
Increasingly, non-IT companies are becoming "accidental" licensors, licensing their internally built accounting, inventory, human resources, supply chain, or other software systems in order to capitalize on these developments. If your company becomes a software licensor, you may encounter many important and problematic legal issues relevant to the modification, distribution, and protection of your code. They include the permitted use of open source code in commercial applications, clean room development, government rights in software created with government funds, intellectual property protection for software, reverse-engineering, and encryption export controls. This article analyzes these questions and more through familiar hypothetical scenarios.
Read about the heightened United States scrutiny over government agencies' transfer of imported personal data as reflected in President Biden's October 7, 2022 Executive Order on Enhancing Safeguards for US Signals Intelligence Activities.
This Wisdom of the Crowd, compiled from questions and responses posted on the Employment & Labor Forum, addresses methods to allow closed-door offices for attorneys in an open work environment.
This guide presents jurisdictional overviews on counterfeit medicine laws in jurisdictions around the globe.
In this article you'll find tips, suggestions and insight to implement the cost-saving measures your company needs.
A study of the state of maturity among in-house legal departments across 15 legal operations functions.
The following article is a discussion of a draft of tax regulations recently approved by Parliament.
If you have not yet become acquainted with predictive coding, there is no shortage of articles and blogs available to get you caught up to date. To help get your bearings in the brave new world of predictive coding, this article covers ten important predictive coding concepts.
Learn about loan fee fraud and how consumers can check for it in the United Kingdom.
As growing workloads are accompanied by shrinking budgets, technology for in-house legal teams can be harnessed to support. In this article, learn about some suggested technologies for in-house teams to explore and utilize.
This is a sample information technology policy.
User-generated content and influencer marketing allow organisations to engage more closely with consumers. However, both carry legal and reputational risk. In-house legal teams are uniquely placed to add value to their organisations by recognising and responding to these risks.
CMS Insurance Group’s InsurTech Expert Guide intends to sheds light on the outstanding opportunities that stem from the current rules on insurance distribution and digitalization technologies. The publication has also been designed to help traditional insurance and InsurTech companies prepare for future regulations.
Big Data, artificial intelligence, blockchain solutions, along with the innovative use of web platforms and mobile technology have brought distinct advantages to the insurance sector. However, to fully take advantage of these advances in technology market participants must adapt to the shifting regulatory environment.
Learn about international soft law frameworks - standards, laws, and proposed laws regarding digitization and digital tools.
The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (“DSIT”) in March 2023 published the Data Protection and Digital Information (No 2) Bill (“DPDI2”). DPDI2 aims to make a number of changes to the UK data protection regime.
This article discusses what this change actually means for business, both financially and legally.
An in-depth look at the life cycle approach and it's development and practice in the recent past.
This article discusses the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's May 2023 guidance on advanced technologies in the workplace. The guidance does not unveil new policies, but instead reiterates that existing policies and practices continue to apply to new technologies.
The topic of value and cost effectiveness is a common one, but not a new one. There's often a disconnect between how firms bill for services (hourly) and how clients wish to pay for them (value). But there are tools available to counsel to make these two notions sync.
This webcast provides an overview of the new rules and planning strategies added to the Internal Revenue Code, by the Jobs Creation Act, that changes the structure of virtually all executive and director unfunded deferred compensation arrangements.
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