Hurdles await any company seeking to expand its footprint outside of currently-known geographic territories. Explore key potential pitfalls and means to navigate your way to success by leveraging a global mindset at all phases of your next multinational contract negotiation.
Learn about cutting-edge developments in compliance training (apps, multimedia, etc.) that can elevate your compliance program to the next level. Discover how your organization can leverage social media to bolster its compliance program. Squarely address “tone at the middle” and learn best practices for ensuring that middle managers – your first line of defense – are especially prepared to serve as good compliance stewards. Worried about whistleblowers? Examine techniques that foster communications within your organization, to help ensure that employee concerns are raised internally.
This article discusses some of the most common issues and pitfalls to keep in mind before, during and after entering into an endorsement relationship with an athlete or other celebrity in the United States.
In this resource, learn practical tips and tricks about how contracts are structured and a strategy for effective contract reviews.
This panel will discuss what goes into planning and managing significant litigation that has the potential to be successful or ruinous to your company, with no middle ground. Topics will include informing your board of directors, setting strategy, managing the public relations aspects of such a case and how the amounts at stake impact settlement strategies (e.g., whether to hire jury consultants).
This Wisdom of the Crowd (ACC members' discussion), provides insight from ACC members regarding contract management systems. Topics discussed include choosing the right product for your law department/company and, building your own system. The resource compiles responses posted on the forums of several ACC Networks: IT, Privacy & eCommerce, New to In-house, and Small Law Departments.
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.
This guide provides an overview of key legal issues, rules and developments regarding vertical agreements and dominant firms across a range of jurisdictions.
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.
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.
Learn key developments regarding the private placement regimes of EU States and some non-EU States.
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.
Even if your company does not now have aircraft, the number of companies that do have aircraft is growing, especially because of security concerns since 9/11. Read this article to learn the major compliance issues that you need to consider in regards to your corporate aircraft.
Discusses legal outsourcing, consumer and commercial customer protection, and the state of technology in Canada.
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.
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