This article delves into the evolving landscape of social media investigations, covering best practices, legal frameworks, and strategic solutions to help employers conduct effective fact-finding and manage their workforce in the digital era.
Learn how to establish a "Made in USA" compliance program and avoid liability.
This article discusses some of the key issues nonprofit organizations encounter with copyrights.
This article discusses the increase in the use of put and call options in M&A transactions, as a mechanism to address challenges to valuation.
"the "Getting the Deal Through" reference guide for M&A professionals"
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.
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 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 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.
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.
On average around the world, starting a business takes 7 procedures, 25 days and costs 32% of income per capita in fees. To operate and expand, the firm will need financing—from shareholders or from creditors. Raising money in the capital market is easier and less costly where minority shareholders feel protected from self-interested transactions by large shareholders. Good corporate governance rules can provide this kind of protection. But among the 189 economies covered by this article, 46 still have only very limited requirements for disclosing majority shareholders’ conflicts of interest—or none at all. In recent years, there has been remarkable progress in removing some of the biggest bureaucratic obstacles to private sector activity. Yet small and medium-size enterprises still are subject to burdensome regulations and vague rules that are unevenly applied and that impose inefficiencies on the enterprise sector. Learn more about the specific regulatory obstacles small and medium-size enterprises must navigate.
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.
This is a list of materials with links regarding in-house pro bono and the role of the chief legal officer.
Caught between the pressures of social and environmental responsibility and financial performance? The benefit corporation model offers a solution to balance out these demands.
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.
Shepherding a smooth transition during a merger isn’t easy, but it is possible. Find out how in this insightful article.
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