Informative resources for in-house lawyers on topics such as navigating employment and workplace considerations, geopolitical risks, business continuity, crisis response, and cybersecurity.
Learn the Top Ten considerations in-house counsel need to know when handling sensitive Protected Health Information ("PHI") and/or Personally Identifiable Information ("PII") in a healthcare setting in the United States, including the unique set of risks associated with this handling of data.
This Top Ten focuses on the important inquiries counsel should make when entertaining the idea of an automated management system for outside counsel work.
This ACC guide provides a Q&A that gives a high level overview of board composition, the comply or explain approach, management rules and authority, directors' duties and liabilities, transactions with directors and conflicts, company meetings, internal controls, accounts and audit, institutional investors and reform proposals in Hong Kong.
This inaugural report highlights the current key trends and themes in the global data centre industry and provides an outlook for the data centre market in 2014.
Learn tips on selecting, evaluating, comparing and retaining the outside counsel that best suit the organizational needs of your company.
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.
This Quick Counsel highlights certain corporate and tax aspects related to the directors' remuneration regime in Spain, which applies irrespective of the nationality of the director.
Amendments to the Canadian Patent Act and enactment of the Certificate of Supplementary Protection Regulations flowing from the Canada-European Union (EU) Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement introduced a new framework in Canada for the issuance of Certificates of Supplementary Protection (CSPs).
This chart compare key aspects of the two regimes, Canada's and the EU's.
The newest installment of the Benchmarks and Leading Practices Report will provide a range of essential data and case studies to improve the performance of small and large in-house legal teams.
In-house practice for Japanese lawyers (bengoshi) is a rather new phenomenon. This article presents an overall picture of the status of the in-house profession in Japan with particular focus on the history of its development. It draws from information presented at various committee gatherings, including the Corporate Counsel Subcommittee of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations.
This article points out that in case the corporate purpose of the legal entity is distorted, deviating the company from its goal for acts deliberately performed by its members, officers and managers, or, further, if such individuals cause improperly a confusion between their own assets and legal entity’s, the abuse of corporate entity is acknowledged, with the legitimation of court intervention, establishing the effects on the private assets of members and officers, who become equally and jointly liable for company’s obligations.
Eighth edition of the Getting the Deal Through Anti-Corruption Regulation Guide, a volume that provides international analysis for corporate counsel, cross-border legal practitioners and business people.
"the "Getting the Deal Through" reference guide for M&A professionals"
This practice profile is about the experiences of law departments at seven companies and a national law firm that, for varying reasons, decided to move some legal services to outside providers in the United States. It also describes service models used by some to in-source work that might have otherwise been performed by outside law firms. Featured corporate law departments are: Alcoa, Inc., American Express, DuPont, Golden West Financial; 3M, Reebok, and The Finish Line, Inc.
The Anti-Corruption Law entered into force in Brazil last month. Under the new law, parent companies, subsidiaries, other affiliates and consortiums are jointly and severally liable for payment of fines and indemnification of damages resulting from unlawful acts. Read this article for further discussion of the main matters covered by the new law.
A Checklist of best practices for public companies and their counsel to consider when the company and its employees are active in social media. This Checklist offers suggestions in dealing with the limitations and challenges that federal securities laws place on the use of social media and avoiding violations of the securities laws. This Checklist also covers social media use during sensitive disclosure periods, such as during securities offerings and proxy solicitations.
This article reviews principal corporate, commercial and regulatory (compliance) considerations when forming exempt from ICA registration Private Funds.
As in-house counsel, you will most likely be dealing with technology licensing agreements. Here are some key tips based on “FAQs – What Every Lawyer Should Know About Technology Licensing Agreements” - a webcast hosted by the Association of Corporate Counsel’s New to In-house Network, sponsored by Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP.
Read this article and learn a practical step-by-step approach for transforming your company's well-intentioned workplace policies and procedures into a system that delivers.
On March 7, 2023, the Data Protection Commission (“DPC”) published its Annual Report for 2022 (the “Report”). 2022 marked the fourth full year of the implementation of the GDPR and saw significant effort by the DPC to ensure compliance with the GDPR across Ireland. The most frequent GDPR queries and complaints received by the DPC related to Access Requests; Fair Processing; Disclosure; Direct Marketing; and the Right to be Forgotten.
The Anti-Corruption Law entered into force in Brazil last month. Under the new law, parent companies, subsidiaries, other affiliates and consortiums are jointly and severally liable for payment of fines and indemnification of damages resulting from unlawful acts. Read this article for further discussion of the main matters covered by the new law. This article is also available in Portuguese:
<p><a href=" http://www.acc.com/legalresources/resource.cfm?show=1359561">The Brazilian Anti-Corruption Law Comes Into Effect (Portuguese)</a></p>
A review of Venezuela's Organic Law of Labor and Workers, a collection of recent reforms to the country's wage and hour laws.
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