This InfoPAK (now known as ACC Guides) gives a succinct overview of restraints of trade, monopolies and abuses of market power in India.
If your company operates in the area of hazardous materials, you need to have a comprehensive plan in place to deal with sudden environmental emergencies. This article describes the fundamentals of a comprehensive emergency plan that deals with environmental disasters and presents the precise steps that should be taken, on an hour-by-hour basis, to implement the plan following a disaster.
Corporate counsel in every industry are facing new and more frequent challenges in dealing with fraud and corruption. As companies grow and expand, gaining knowledge about how to identify and confront these issues is vital to counsel. The key to detecting and preventing fraud and corruption is vigorous employment screening protocols.
This is a legal and regulatory playbook of some of the most important themes that will play out in 2023 in India.
The policy of promoting free and frank discussions in negotiations that can lead to settlement prior to trial is embodied in Federal Rule 408 of the US Federal Rules of Evidence. But before you start a full and open discussion, understand that the protections extended by this rule are not clear-cut. This article reviews what Rule 408 does and does not do.
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.
Learn tips on selecting, evaluating, comparing and retaining the outside counsel that best suit the organizational needs of your company.
A 42-page guide by Dentons regarding the AI journey - opening eyes to opportunity and risk.
This material provides an overview of the various factors that a foreign investor should consider when establishing a business in New Zealand.
Not everybody can be the CEO and be eligible for honors. How can the rest of us, specifically in-house counsel, ensure that our contributions can live on after we leave our companies?
This InfoPAK (now known as ACC Guides) provides a high-level overview on private acquisitions law and practice in Luxembourg.
This quick overview (QuickCounsel) describes how the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") regulates the pre-marketing process for drugs and medical devices, and the steps that must be taken to obtain FDA authorization to market these products.
In 2016, employers should expect to see US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) fines that are as much as 80 percent higher than in the past as a result of a budget provision signed into law by President Obama that will significantly increase OSHA fines for the first time since 1990. Fines will place greater emphasis on getting OSHA compliance right. In this program, OSHA experts will address the agency’s new penalties and provide a checklist for specific compliance steps that employers can use to better insulate their companies from those penalties. Presenters will address OSHA’s increased focus on new recordkeeping and reporting responsibilities; temporary works; Voluntary Safety and Health Program management guidelines; workplace violence; and joint employer responsibility.
In this article, learn about insolvency questions regarding crypto assets.
Bringing staff from overseas to the United States, specifically, presents a challenge to in-house legal counsel since several certifications from different government agencies, abroad and in the United States, are needed. The stakes are high for individuals seeking various types of US authorizations. This type of immigration law requires a high level of expertise and experience, even more so for C-suite personnel or those with high technical skills.
Under the US Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO) new guidance on discretionary denial of institution of inter partes and post-grant (IPR and PGR, respectively) proceedings, a pending International Trade Commission (ITC) investigation is no longer a basis for the Patent Trial and Appeals Board (PTAB) to exercise its discretion to deny institution. This is a material change from past PTAB practice, which had previously denied institution of such post-grant proceedings due to an ongoing parallel ITC proceeding. This article discusses three considerations for ITC litigants given the USPTO’s new guidance.
Don’t let a demand letter drag you out of the dark: In-house counsel may not know about their clients’ international commissioned agents until trouble presents itself. Learn how to establish a method that vets agents carefully, assesses risks and establishes an informed sales agency agreement.
This program will focus on effective information security and data privacy assessment programs for third-party vendors—including practical tips for effectively assessing information security practices and procedures of third-party vendors, such as law firms and other professional consultants — from the pros and cons of using industry-standard questionnaires to determining when onsite reviews are appropriate and how to handle subcontractors. We will also highlight key, and common, sticking points in negotiating data privacy and information security terms in vendor agreements and provide options and sample language for successfully resolving them, distinguishing as applicable between US negotiations and negotiations where either the customer or the vendor has substantial operations in Europe or Asia.
Doing Business in Digital Era - session held in Sydney 1 December 2016.
Aryeh Friedman, chief privacy officer and senior compliance counsel at Dun & Bradstreet, discusses his views on the current state of compliance, as well as how to build an effective program.
Looking to bring a business-focused approach to your in-house practice? Take some tips from Siemens Canada’s experience running the legal department like a business.
For US-based companies that hire foreign nationals or send US citizens to work abroad, there are laws, regulating bodies and cultural ideologies to pay attention to in order to avoid costly litigation. Businesses that are new to foreign employment should examine their practices to ensure compliance at home and abroad.
This multi-jurisdictional guide covers common issues in consumer protection laws and regulations, including substantive provisions, enforcement action, remedies, and anticipated reforms.
What is the small law department’s role when a natural or man-made disaster impacts your operations or those of a key business partner? What if the company doesn’t have a plan in place and you have to provide immediate advice? Emerge from this session better equipped to respond<br />when disaster strikes, with the rudiments of a plan in mind and with the desire to fully develop that plan while things are calm!
A sample consultancy agreement between a U.S. company and an Italian professor that includes a definition of the relationship between the company and the consultant, a confidentiality agreement, a definition of the work the company requires, and period of service
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