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The job of protecting the legal health of companies may reside with the legal department, but compliance programs are neither self-executing nor solely a legal function. Yet, employees may not appreciate their shared responsibility for compliance. This article offers a "marketing guide" for getting your clients on board with compliance.

The UK Government has published its Response Statement following the White Paper published in March 2021 on audit and corporate governance reform.

In-house counsels are under increasing pressure (especially from procurement colleagues) to run formal RFPs (Requests for Proposals), or tenders, in order to compare offers from law firms and select on an "objective" basis. In this session our speakers will lead a discussion on the pointers and pitfalls in running an RFP when selecting a law firm.

You finally made it. No longer the lawyer, now the client. As head of regulatory affairs, you ask lawyers for advice (even though you know how to find the answers and often do). Life is less complicated, not having to worry about those pesky ethical rules. But are you really free of them? No one quite knows, although one can envision sanctions being imposed on a person who maintains her law degree in conduct that would clearly be violative of ethical norms. And the sanctions could adversely impact the client as well.

Ellen Pekilis is general counsel of CSA Group, an internationally- accredited standards development, and testing and certification organization headquartered in Toronto, Canada. In this article, she shares her experience working for an independent, not-for-profit member-based association dedicated to advancing safety, sustainability and social good.

This is a sample company volume license agreement.

Social media often blurs the line between on-and off-duty. Use these best practices when considering responding to an employee’s social media use.

This set of three papers is derived from the training session on the Private enforcement organized by the Concurrences Review that has held on 5th July 2012 in Brussels.

As local economies continue to stabilize, Angola and Nigeria are ripe with potential investment opportunities — particularly in the natural resources area. However, with new laws, immigration considerations and a legacy of corruption, in-house counsel must familiarize themselves with a variety of issues to ensure their clients’ success.

Working on a nonprofit board can a valuable and rewarding experience. But when the members of the board fail to ask the right questions about how their organization is being managed, the results often end up making the front pages.

Focuses on the ACCA/NACD joint survey on governance issues and what it means to you in terms of corporate responsibility.

The European Commission announced two proposals which aim to strengthen sanctions compliance and effectiveness across the EU.

This article looks at recent important issues in labor law for UK employers.

In this presentation the panel discusses threats and opportunities arising from the new trademark law in China, as well as how to use trade laws as a defensive mechanism.

The paper identifies three issues related to the economics of public interest provisions. Firstly, the paper considers the problem of using public interest provisions as motivation for arbitrary (rather than systematic) interventions in competition cases. The paper relates the problem to broader economic policy uncertainty. Secondly, the paper considers the relationship between public interest objectives and the welfare standard in South African competition cases. Thirdly, the paper considers the analytical requirements for investigating public interest issues, including the need for dynamic rather than static analysis as well as the problem of ‘merger-specificity’, especially in relation to job losses.

A discussion on subjects such as emissions, general guidelines for voluntary greenhouse gas reporting, proposed rules, and more.

This article examines an Ohio court case decision dealing with obligations, exclusive rights, and the parol evidence rule.

Taking cues from The Newlywed Game, columnist Phil Strauss discusses the relationships we develop with our jobs and offers advice as to how to most enjoy our jobs.

Members respond to question of how to deal with an RFP requesting contract exceptions, particularly when dealing with a large corporation.

Learn about the UK Pensions Regulator's guidance on new climate change governance and reporting requirements.

This checklist contains a sample list of questions that can be used as a starting point for conducting due diligence from a privacy and security standpoint.

Getting the Deal Through is delighted to<br />publish the ninth edition of Arbitration, a<br />volume in our series of annual reports,<br />which provide international analysis in<br />key areas of law and policy for corporate<br />counsel, cross-border legal practitioners and<br />business people.

This guide briefly outlines the steps to register a private company in the Republic of South Africa (“RSA”) and some important considerations when doing so.

Three Party Master Beneficiary Escrow Service Agreement for Canada

Written in the wake of the Enron situation, this article examines the Sarbanes-Oxley Act as a means of reiterating the importance of honest accounting as a means of averting potential compliance crises before they have the chance to develop.

Learn about enforcement action taken by the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in 2022 against hospitals, to enforce CMS's Hospital Price Transparency Rule that took effect on January 1, 2021.