When done right, an effective compliance program energizes rather than instructs employees to uphold ethical practices — leading to a better, brighter corporate culture.

This guide provides an overview of the key steps, legal issues and market practices involved in the IPO process by examining practices in 16 jurisdictions around the world.

This Leading Practices Profile examines knowledge sharing and management practices of six companies and two law firms. Organizations featured in this Profile described practices and approaches for managing and sharing knowledge across a variety of industries, as well as law firms.

Your company wants to expand internationally, but you know almost nothing about doing business in other countries. If your company is too small for an international office, what do you do if you just want to experiment and see whether you can generate revenue? Should you use independent contractors? Outsource? Hire employees? While you may not be able to learn all the laws of different countries, you can learn to identify key considerations for your clients and make solid business arguments for legal compliance. Learn about issues that should be considered and gather information for some specific jurisdictions.

Even if you don’t know why your job hunting efforts have yet to yield results, you may be able to breathe new life into your search by taking the actions outlined in this article.

Highly dispute-savvy companies have mean internal legal department budgets that are 40 percent lower than the least dispute-savvy companies, according to a landmark 2003 study by the American Arbitration Association. New research reveals that dispute-savvy companies focus on maximizing business performance, preserving relationships with customers, employees, business partners, and suppliers, and preventing—or at least minimizing—disputes and their impact. Learn what leading practices they use in this article.

A panel of experts will discuss strategies and best practices for building and managing a trademark portfolio with a limited budget. The panel will address best practices related to clearance, filing, portfolio maintenance, and enforcement. The session will include a discussion of international searching and filing strategies and tips for prioritizing activities when expanding coverage of US trademarks into new geographies. The panel will review and discuss resources and tools available to assist with aspects of building and managing a trademark portfolio.

"the "Getting the Deal Through" reference guide for M&A professionals"

When you start your in-house career, or even change companies, you need to acclimate yourself to your new company, learn as much as possible, and begin to become a part of your new business. Read these 12 tips to help you get started.

This guide provides a straightforward overview of the law and practice which applies in a wide-ranging number of jurisdictions where CMS are able to provide legal advice. This guide provides an answer to each of the 20 questions for each jurisdiction.<br />

Many businesses in local, national and international markets are starting to see the value of embracing green and sustainable values. This program will explore current U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) green guides, the expanding scope of eco-labels, litigation on environmental marketing claims at the state level and recent FTC enforcement. Faculty will address key updates to prior green guides, new types of green claims, revisions to environmental benefit claims, guidance on the use of certifications and seals, areas where advertisers will have to change their current practices, and practical tips for compliance.

People, companies and even governments generate an enormous amount of data about themselves every day. From ordering a latte without foam to negotiating a major contract, there is a growing perceived need to collect and mine the resulting data for useful insights about markets, customers, competitors or competitive threats. How can we do this? What legal issues surround the collection of this data? What issues surround the use of the data? If your company is using big data, what should it be concerned about? How does it stay out of trouble and out of the headlines?

This Top Ten outlines several of the issues that multinational employers should carefully consider when outsourcing in Mexico.

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This InfoPAK (now known as ACC Guides) provides a high level overview of the domestic mining sector, its regulatory structure and ownership, the environment and health and safety. It covers foreign ownership and tax issues ans proposals for reform in Australia.

The Anti-Corruption Law brought about significant changes regarding the relationship between private businesses and government employees. This article focuses on the practical consequences this law will have on business activities.

The DWP has updated its guidance on certifying money purchase and defined benefit schemes for auto-enrolment. Employers preparing for staging should review the clarifications and changes in the new guidance to ensure that they can certify their scheme on the correct basis. This article highlights the key changes. Employers who have already certified their auto-enrolment scheme should also review the new guidance to check that no new issues arise as a result of the changes.

Susanna McDonald is counsel and the director of information for Claimant Management Systems in Wilmington, DE. Read her commentary on work-life balance and why Fs are good!

Brief guidance on updates to Mexican environmental regulations related to forests and environmental impact statements.

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-house counsel have amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure to contend with, and the high costs of complying with them tend to come from the legal department's pocketbook. Learn about how to recover from the cost of ediscovery.

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.