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In this Quick Overview, the basic elements of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) are explained as well as practical steps that can be taken to comply with this new regulation.

In the current climate with Russia invading Ukraine, U.S. and international policymakers enacted numerous sanctions that raise many questions. Knowing the typical course of these sanctions in past scenarios helps to triage new risk assessment and update internal controls. This is a “Top Ten” list of considerations.

New laws in the People’s Republic of China – which went into effect on 1 January 2021 – have completely revamped the rules pertaining to the succession of the deceased’s assets into a more organized system. The new policies, which have replaced laws in place since 1985, provide more guidelines and structure regarding appointing estate administrators and their scope of power.

Technology procurement has many pitfalls. These tips from a technology acquisition expert will help make your large technology procurement project a success.

The Digital Marketers Act published 11 May 2022 will have consequences for the EU on the following: more information on costs and metrics with digital advertising, limitations in targeting, and limitations on targeting minors and profiling based on sensitive data.

This InfoPAK (now known as ACC Guides) provides a high-level overview on private acquisitions law and practice in Luxembourg.

This Fraud Awareness and Detection training course will help you recognize situations that raise issues of fraud and to help you deal with them appropriately and effectively. (Licensed for use in classroom settings only and not for distribution in any form.)

This QuickCounsel points out the hidden dangers when choosing outside counsel and teaming up with similarly situated defendants.

This article provides an in-depth look at data privacy in the modern world. Specifically, it states that data privacy statutes, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's (ACCC’s) Digital Platform Inquiry’s recommendations, and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) are insufficient to address issues with data privacy. However, it stresses the need to redraft statutes to protect the rights and interests of individual humans to live without the risk of “excessive intrusion” in order to ameliorate problems with data privacy.

Should you draft a memo to file in-house, when it may be discoverable depending on its business content and other factors? Sometimes, the mention of drafting one is all you need.

This Wisdom of the Crowd (ACC member discussion) addresses obligations to pay for unsolicited products that are sent to offices under US law. This resource was compiled from questions and responses posted on the forum of the New to In-house and Law Department Management ACC Networks.*

As of July 2014, a new agreement between Canada and the United States will require Canadian financial institutions to implement procedures to share sensitive information about their US clients with the Canada Revenue Agency.

A stolen company laptop these days is much more than a nuisance, if customer information resided on the computer. The law in this area is fast-developing, with different schemes evolving in California, other states, and throughout Europe. Learn what advice to give your clients in the case of identity theft, what further actions they should take, and whether there is a difference between the practical business actions and the legally required actions when their databases are breached and customer information is stolen.

This is a sample letter sent by one company to another regarding the prior companies former employees continuing obligations.

Do you know where to start when seeking venture capital financing? There are a lot of key investment terms to consider, and some approaches to these terms favor the VC, while others favor the company. Before signing the dotted line, be sure to understand the expected timeline and your approach to the process.

This course explains the basic laws and regulations governing the most common marketing practices and provides guidelines for employees involved in marketing-related tasks. (Licensed for use in classroom settings only and not for distribution in any form.)

Firing an employee can be a sticky issue, particularly when there are company assets at stake. Most people do not want to get near these delicate and often emotional issues, but in-house counsel is always involved. Here are a few tips that can make the process go a little more smoothly.

For many companies, the potential of big data is clouded by uncertainty as to how programs should be designed and maintained to avoid legal and regulatory risk. This is especially true because the concept of what constitutes consumer harm – in the field of privacy generally but especially with regard to big data analytics – is rapidly evolving. This InfoPAK provides an overview of legal and regulatory considerations businesses should contemplate when developing programs that rely on big data coupled with tools that help apply those legal and regulatory considerations to real world situations.

When a company is sued, the responsibility of the litigation process falls on in-house counsel. If the in-house attorney is inexperienced or feels uneasy with the litigation process they may turn to outside counsel. However, the in-house attorney is not only missing the opportunity to influence the course of the lawsuit but also ensure savings.

This outline reviews the background of the new Sarbanes-Oxley internal control reporting
and attestation requirements.

Your career journey is a series of inter-related activities that need to be practiced and exercised every day. Make sure that you love and learn the business, but live the law.

This presentation promotes an interactive discussion of the duties and liabilities of directors and officers in the United States, Canada, and other jurisdictions. Of particular interest to in-house counsel in organizations with international operations, the program will focus on rights, liabilities, and other topics of unique importance to directors and officers of your company’s international subsidiaries and affiliates. The duties that are owed, by international directors, to other US-based directors, the corporation, and its shareholders are often scrutinized in the context of change of control transactions, conflict-of-interest disclosure, breach of confidentiality, and insider trading inquiries. The panel and audience will review a number of hypothetical scenarios and consider where conflicts can arise and how they might be proactively managed.

This powerpoint course is a presentation in-house counsel may want to use to train their internal staff on improving careful communications. The presentation will help you take a closer look at your written and spoken communications on behalf of your organization to be sure that you're communicating as effectively— and compliantly — as possible. (Licensed for use in classroom settings only and not for distribution in any form.)

As corporations continue to focus on cost reduction and increased efficiency, a second wave of strategic initiatives has brought value back into the limelight. Legal departments and firms should work together to implement new practices that are mutually beneficial. You have two choices: Ride the wave or wait for it to crash down on top of you.

Examines the guidance issued by the Office of Labor Management Standards and discusses the best practices for addressing LM-10 reporting obligations.

Attorneys are frequently confronted by having to decide whether to say "no" to an action proposed by their client. This circumstance is much more challenging for the in-house practitioner, whose client is also their employer. Before being faced with this situation, an in-house lawyer should learn the rules about who the client is, when to say no, and when to say yes.