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Review of social media considerations for in-house counsel, including social media issues in recruitment and during employment.

This guide provides a comprehensive overview of the various factors that companies should consider when establishing a business in Uruguay.

A review of the most impactful ways in-house counsel are using big data, including predicting legal costs and case outcomes, compliance, and privacy.

Patent troll lawsuits can be costly and time-consuming. The stakes are especially high for small start-up companies, which are the primary targets of patent trolls. Fear not – help is on the way. This article explores the challenges in the current patent system and evaluates the proposed remedies.

In this Quick Overview, in-house counsel can learn about VAT (Value Added Tax) and Special Tax for Products and Services (STPS) regulations and how they affect the Mexican manufacturing industry.

Learn about legal issues that frequently arise in social media advertising, at an era where negative posts can be extremely damaging and hard to effectively control after their release. This short article discusses commercial social media posts, giveaways, contests, sweepstakes and similar promotions, confidential information, copyright and trademark infringement, rights of publicity and privacy, user generated content, endorsements, direct messages, privacy and data security, records retention and spoliation.

Social media and privacy are the two hot button issues that in-house counsel are still grappling with. This session will address how to identify the legal risks and potential rewards of social media and privacy presented by company, employee, and third parties, as well as the law department’s role in helping the company craft effective social networking and privacy policies.

This article discusses three recent court decisions that have sparked controversy among the Canadian legal community. One case involves a Vancouver law firm and its associates, and another pits a burgeoning Quebec restaurant chain against one of its former franchisees.

Learn about the possibilities, advantages, and legal implications of cashless stores in Belgium.

Learn about the continued increased enforcement activity combatting economic crime in Ireland.

The ACC Guide addresses a variety of methods for increasing value by improving relationships with outside counsel.

In today’s competitive global economy, in-house counsel are under constant pressure to deliver increased value to the client. This InfoPAK addresses a variety of methods for increasing value by improving relationships with outside counsel. It begins by outlining the steps that in-house counsel should take before retaining outside counsel, including setting goals and defining value, creating a strategic plan, and structuring operations to achieve success. The InfoPAK then examines the steps to take after a matter requiring outside counsel arises, including determining the scope of work required, choosing the right firm and fee-structure to maximize value to the client, managing the matter as it progresses, and evaluating performance once the matter is resolved.

The Covid-19 pandemic is not only a major public health crisis, but the kick-start of an irreversible change in the global economic order. In this article, learn how other in-house counsel, executives, and business people rethink responsible investment and implement consistent policies for good environmental, social, and corporate governance practices (known by the acronym ESG - Environmental, Social, and Governance) have been showing great competitive advantage over others.

A Bring Your Own Device M2M policy is almost indispensable for employers who recognize that their employees constantly rely on personal devices. Establishing a BYOD policy is nevertheless a risky proposition if improperly managed.

This Quick Counsel will focus on commenting the new data protection regulation in Colombia and its implications for the companies that handle data.

Building upon the lessons learned in Part I (Session 911), faculty will further discuss the practical application of financial decision making practices to your everyday work. Faculty will also explain important analytical tools that indicate whether a new project will create value, such as: Net Present Value (NPV), Internal Rate of Return (IRR), Payback Period and Economic Value Added (EVA).

This survey explores the areas of personal career history, personal demographics, profile of the corporate legal department and the use of legal research and other products and services.

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

This is a sample escrow agreement between the Depositor and by any additional party enrolling as a "Beneficiary" upon execution of the Enrollment Form.

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.

Would you feel comfortable if your company outsourced its key technology, ecommerce, or information management-related functions using agreements that did not cover the most critical contractual issues? Of course not. This article provides a "Top 10" list of important legal issues that you should address in technology, ecommerce, and information management outsourcing agreements. The list includes some issues that, although not necessarily new or unique to outsourcing transactions, are at a premium in such agreements. The article also provides some sample contractual language that you can use as a starting point to address key legal issues specific to your company.

This 2015 guide is part of the Lex Mundi Guides to Doing Business series which provides general information about legal and business infrastructures in jurisdictions around the world.

This is a smart and focused list of points you need to keep in mind as you act as counsel and business person in a merger deal for United States based mergers and acquisitions.

When corruption or other potential wrongdoing comes to light, in-house counsel are typically called upon to manage and direct their company's response. In this session, contestants" selected from the audience will play a version of the game show “Who Wants to be a Millionaire.” Contestants will be asked multiple-choice questions of increasing difficulty related to the principal stages and elements of a company's response to the discovery of potential wrongdoing. The audience will be encouraged to participate to assist contestants. A panel of experienced outside and in-house counsel will comment on and discuss each of the answers given by contestants and the audience, identifying best practices and pitfalls to avoid.

It is common for disputes over intellectual property (IP) rights, including patent, trademark and copyright disputes, to be multijurisdictional in nature. As discussed below, there are a number of important litigation procedures that make Canada an attractive forum in which to litigate IP rights.