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Notice of the Texas Attorney General's intent to file administrative expense claim for post-petition civil fines and penalties

This Wisdom of the Crowd, compiled from questions and responses posted on the Intellectual Property, IT, Privacy & eCommerce, and Small Law Departments eGroups, addresses issues involving software license agreements and digital contracts in general. The issues discussed include acceptance of software license agreements, requirement of acceptance and click-wrap agreements.

These are sample rules and guidelines for communicating company-related information via social networking forums whether used in or outside the workplace.

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 Brazil.

This is a two-party master escrow service agreement where the company provides flexible, comprehensive escrow services that generate the type of agreement that gives our customers the right level of protection in each unique situation.

This is an employee policy for appropriate use of social media and related rules and prohibitions.

This article talks about giving substance to implementing change and seeing that each process that a department takes on is an opportunity for improvement.

Understand what comprises an effective compliance program; Understand how organizations with international business units or markets may need to address language barriers and cultural issues when it comes to codes of conduct, compliance training, investigations and remedial actions; Learn to implement and maintain effective monitoring mechanisms and audit plans, which pose ongoing challenges for in-house counsel whose compliance hat is often one of many in their closet; Discuss the implications of compliance reporting channels, e.g., reports to the general counsel/chief legal officer vs. reports to the chief compliance officer; and Learn the nuts and bolts of rolling out and maintaining an effective global compliance program.

This InfoPAK (now known as ACC Guides) provides an overview of key issues to address, the content of each of these document, intellectual property issues, and employment issues on an international joint venture. In addition, this document provides an analysis of the various legal structures that are commonly used as vehicles for international joint ventures control and minority protection at board and shareholder level, key competition issues, and deadlock and termination provisions in the context of an international corporate joint venture.

This guide is part of the Lex Mundi Guides to Doing Business series and provides general information about legal and business infrastructures in South Africa.

This InfoPAK (now known as ACC Guides) provides a high level overview of the lending mark, forms of security over assets, special purpose vehicles in secured lending, quasi-security, negative pledge, guarantees and loan agreements in England and Wales.

This Leading Practices Profile, an update to ACC’s 2010 piece, features law department leading practices for generating and demonstrating value through a number of value levers, as well as best practices for improving the bottom line and enhancing collation across business units. In wake of the economic downturn in the last decade and the increased pressure to “do more with less,” six participating corporations share their best value-sustaining practices in law department staffing, targeted practice areas, outside counsel management, strategic planning and the use of metrics to measure and track best practices.

This article is a practical cross-border insight into mergers and acquisitions.

This policy provides general guidance and references to other applicable policies regarding the practice for employee creation and use of web-based and multi-media communications tools for internal or external use, whether internally or externally hosted applications.

This guide provides non-Canadians with an introduction to the laws and regulations that affect the conduct of business in the province of Quebec. Because of Canada’s federal structure, the authority to make laws and regulations is divided between the federal and provincial governments by the Canadian Constitution, although in some areas of divided authority both federal and provincial laws may apply.

Like it or not, different territories have different laws. There are 28 states in the European Union and across these states there are tranches of relatively harmonised laws in certain areas. The basic underlying laws of contract and case law or codes which aid their interpretation are, however, all different. Nearly every in-house counsel has faced the task of tackling an impending overseas deal when only local state law governed terms are at hand. Staring down the barrel at an unknown legal system, a familiar scene plays out: localise or push ahead with what we've got?

Informative resources for in-house lawyers on topics such as navigating employment and workplace considerations, geopolitical risks, business continuity, crisis response, and cybersecurity.

This multi-jurisdictional guide covers key legal issues, rules and developments regarding merger control across a range of jurisdictions.

Briefing on investment protection and investor-state dispute settlement mechanisms in international agreements

This presentation discusses trade barriers, hot topics, and compliance in selected countries.