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Michele Coleman Mayes, senior vice president and general counsel for The Allstate Corporation, focuses on best practices in compliance and ethics. Mayes uses compliance and ethics as a business strategy — selling Allstate's ethical corporate culture by being transparent, and earning the trust of constituents.

This resource highlights Hewlett-Packards' program to onboard law school graduates, train them, and mentor them each step on their way toward full engagement within the law department.

In case there was any doubt, the FTC v. Wyndham decision makes clear that there is a new sheriff in town when it comes to holding businesses accountable for cybersecurity breaches that harm consumers. That sheriff is the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

A sample code of business conduct that provides a general statement regarding the company's expectations as to the legal and ethical nature of conduct of employees while acting on the company's behalf and to provide for the administration of the code of conduct.

This sample agreement is drafted under English law as a starting point for use where a supplier company wants to appoint a distributor to sell the supplier company's products in a particular country or territory.

This InfoPAK (now known as ACC Guides) gives a succinct overview of restraints of trade, monopolies and abuses of market power in the United Kingdom, specifically England and Wales.

On 28 February 2023, the Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) published its Regulatory Initiatives Grid updating the timeline of the Overseas Funds Regime (“OFR”), the new equivalence regime for retail investment funds and money market funds established outside the UK, which will allow recognised funds to be marketed to the public in the United Kingdom.

On 19 March 2013, under file No XI ZR 431/11, the German Federal Supreme Court clarified the circumstances in which an investor may have a misselling claim against a “direct bank” (i.e. a bank holding an account for the deposit of securities on an execution-only basis only).

This is a supplemental presentation for this session.

This article summarises the German Parliament's legislative package on renewable energy, which is regarded as the largest energy policy amendment in decades.

This InfoPAK (now known as ACC Guides) provides a high-level overview and practical analysis for public procurement issues and procedures in Germany.

Check out this 2014 Apex, Excel and Communicator Award-winning article! The standard “no comment” response to a media frenzy surrounding pending litigation is an approach that some legal counsel have opted out of in favor of more detailed disclosure. Such an approach addresses not
only the media, but also other company constituencies who are impacted by the negative attention. This article details how to create a platform for proactive responses.

This article provides an overview of the main Swiss criminal law provisions, which prohibit<br />the theft and disclosure of banking information to foreign authorities or courts, and to see how they have been applied to whistleblowers in recent cases by Swiss courts and authorities.

There are numerous electronic signature tools available that enable your executives to sign from their laptop or mobile device, from anywhere they can connect to the Internet. Learn how to best instruct clients on taking advantage of this technology.

This is a sample Intellectual Property (IP) due diligence checklist in a corporate acquisition, for the analysis of the seller's IP assets and related matters.

US companies are constantly expanding, allowing them to stay competitive, but also opening the door to corporate compliance risks. Managing global risk with a strong compliance program is even more crucial following recent corporate scandal, and this article discusses the issues that can arise and offers suggestions on how to be effective.

Continue your exploration of value-based fee structure options - looking beyond what was covered in Session 301. We’ll walk through the considerations to weigh when deciding fee structures, focusing on three more popular approaches: portfolio retainers, success/incentive fees, and contingencies. We recommend that you combine this with session 301, to expand your toolkit of options.

To better protect against infringement, in-house counsel should understand the digital do’s and don’ts of copyright regulation so that an inadvertent “copy and paste” doesn’t lead to millions in liability for the company.

In this article, key questions are answered by leading practitioners regarding health care, pharmaceutical, and medical device industry laws and compliance in Italy.

After a 4-year freeze, the Hong Kong Executive Council endorsed the Minimum Wage Commission’s recommendation on 10 January 2023 to raise the statutory minimum wage by HK$2.5 to HK$40 per hour, representing a 6.7% hike. Subject to the approval of the Legislative Council, the revised rate will come into force on 1 May 2023, the Labor day.

Materials from the June 2, 2014 Corporate Counsel University Lunch and Keynote Presentation on social media standards.

The Abu Dhabi Global Market (“ADGM”) published its Guiding Principles on Whistleblowing on 6 December 2022 (“Guiding Principles”). The Guiding Principles are intended to provide a benchmark or framework for all ADGM entities to work within, and all such entities are encouraged to review and align their own whistleblowing procedures with the Guiding Principles.

This InfoPAK (now known as ACC Guides) gives a succinct overview of merger control, regulatory framework and regulatory authorities in the United States.

The Danish Data Protection Agency published its 2022 inspection plan, which involves new focus areas, but also repeats areas from previous years. This article is an overview of the inspection plan, and how your organisation can prepare for a possible inspection.

Most law departments spend more on their outside legal counsel than on their internal costs and staffing, yet most of us also recognize that law firms bill their clients or set their fees in a manner that is both unpredictable and often apposite to efficiency and client value. The ACC Value Challenge project spent the last year learning more about best practices in cost/expense management, and we've created this program to help law departments and firms get a handle on better processes that can help control expenses and drive greater client value in both firms and departments. We'll examine alternative staffing models, data mining techniques that can help you understand what matters are worth, metrics that measure performance relative to cost, and much more.