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A Checklist of best practices for public companies and their counsel to consider when the company and its employees are active in social media. This Checklist offers suggestions in dealing with the limitations and challenges that federal securities laws place on the use of social media and avoiding violations of the securities laws. This Checklist also covers social media use during sensitive disclosure periods, such as during securities offerings and proxy solicitations.

Read this article and learn a practical step-by-step approach for transforming your company's well-intentioned workplace policies and procedures into a system that delivers.

In this multi-jurisdictional guide, explore an overview of key legal issues, rules and developments regarding blockchain and cryptocurrency across a range of jurisdictions.

This Commission Report offers several suggestions for the major participants in the mobile ecosystem as they work to improve mobile privacy disclosures.

This list presents key preventive maintenance steps to consider in order to maximize preparedness for litigation and crisis management.

On November 4, 2013, the US District Court for the Northern District of California denied a motion filed by a company to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a former Libya-based employee. This decision ended the company's unsuccessful attempts to remove to the Libyan judicial system a complaint filed in US federal courts. The ruling, and a companion decision issued two months earlier, serves as a reminder of the need to include well-crafted forum selection clauses in employment agreements, particularly in the international context.

Includes over 350 tips on contracts, employment, intellectual property, Sarbanes-Oxley, litigation, and corporate dynamics, to help guide you through that thrilling-but difficult-first year in the chief legal officer's chair.

General counsel are expected to not only be lawyers but also leaders of a team. Legal acumen is honed through years of law firm and in-house practice, but a high-profile leadership position demands additional skills. From setting the strategic vision to building relationships and developing talent, learn what it takes to lead a law department.

This letter was submitted to the Supreme Court of the Virgin Islands in support of its proposed amendment to Supreme Court Rule 202.1, which would allow in-house counsel from other U.S. jurisdictions to work for their client-employers located in the Virgin Islands without gaining admission to the bar there. The court’s action came on the heels of legislation introduced at the end of 2014 in the Legislature of the Virgin Islands, which sought a legislative remedy to the issue of unauthorized practice by in-house attorneys not licensed by the U.S. Virgin Islands.

This program will provide valuable information on issues of which a U.S. lawyer should be aware when his/her company works with representatives, agents and other intermediaries outside the U.S., including franchising / distribution agreement issues, the importance of doing “due diligence” and issues relating to termination of representatives, agents and other intermediaries.

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.

Learn about Nigeria's 2022 data protection landscape and privacy trends for 2023.

These are sample Master Terms and Conditions governing a sample Third-Party Charitable Sales Promotion and Licensing Agreement, between a not-for-profit organization and a for-profit company, for the for-profit company to sell products promoting a cause of the non-profit organization in the United States, and for the payment of resulting royalties to the non-profit organization.

As social media has taken an increasingly central role in building brands and promoting businesses, in-house counsel need to keep related legal issues top-of-mind. In this Top Ten, learn how to navigate the non-stop world of social media marketing.

A template share purchase disclosure letter for use in US Securities Exchange Commission related matters.

Telecommunications services—those things that connect your corporate offices, data centers, e-commerce sites, call centers, and cell phones—are vital to most companies, and with multiyear, multimillion-dollar contracts at stake, in-house counsel can help save company money through informed negotiations with potential providers. Learn the pricing and cost strategies, standard agreement pitfalls, and remedies to insist on (or avoid) in negotiating your next telecom services agreement.

This InfoPAK (now known as ACC Guides) provides a practical guide of data protection rules and principles, right to access personal data or object to its collection in the United States.

Proxy Statement disclosures. This brief argues the implied right of action recognized by the Court of Appeals (Fourth Circuit) nullifies state law and conflicts with fundamental principles of federalism. Additionally, the unrestrained liabilities and vague substantive requirements imposed by the court of appeals threaten to degrade the quality of disclosure in proxy statements.

Learn about the Gender Pay Gap Information Act 2021 in Ireland.

This inaugural report highlights the current key trends and themes in the global data centre industry and provides an outlook for the data centre market in 2014.

With extreme economic pressures and tightening budgets, everyone is being
asked to cut costs. Whether you have a small, medium or large legal
department, using the right strategies and resources can help you meet these
goals. This session will examine managing a law department budget, managing
IP, managing contracts and other topics relevant to your practice, all with
an eye towards controlling costs. With these suggestions, you can save
money and improve your efficiencies.

This Quick Overview aims to provide a broad-stroke perspective on the 2016 U.S. Proxy Season and its underlying trends by providing a brief overview of the history and regulation of shareholder activism; illustrating the growing prominence in proxy access proposals; and analyzing corporate strategies for responding proactively to shareholder proposals.

This practice profile is about the experiences of law departments at seven companies and a national law firm that, for varying reasons, decided to move some legal services to outside providers in the United States. It also describes service models used by some to in-source work that might have otherwise been performed by outside law firms. Featured corporate law departments are: Alcoa, Inc., American Express, DuPont, Golden West Financial; 3M, Reebok, and The Finish Line, Inc.