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This overview covers how legal knowledge management supports legal department operations - reducing costs while maintaining quality.

This is a sample group sales agreement between company and hotel.

This is a sample group sales agreement between an organization and a hotel where the hotel agrees to that it will be responsible for utilizing a specified number of room nights.

This is a comparison chart that highlights the various structure, liability, tax and management differences among C-corporations, S-corporations, limited liability companies and partnerships.

These are community guidelines when sharing experiences, suggesting improvements, and chiming in on the conversation.

A multi-jurisdictional guide to company insolvency laws and procedures.

This guide presents a general overview of health law in jurisdictions throughout the world.

In this age of rapid data gathering, personal data breaches and shifting perspectives toward privacy, few things are as important to in-house counsel as the appropriate compliance measures for transferring data between the European Union and the United States.

Companies who distribute products including open source software (OSS) must comply with the terms of the license agreement(s) corresponding to that open source. This Quick Overview explains what open source software is, what obligations and potential risks arise from the use of OSS, and how OSS risk can be managed.

The changes which are to be ushered in by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in 2018 are substantial and ambitious. This guide seeks to summarise the key changes that the new law will bring and to highlight the most important actions which organisations should take in preparing to comply with it.

Learn about sanctions taken against Russia by the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom, Australia, Japan, and Switzerland.

Check out this whitepaper developed by Foley & Lardner LLP to learn more about the top twelve trends in the digital assets space.

This InfoPAK (now known as ACC Guides) provides a Q&A which gives a high level overview of the key practical issues including the level of activity and recent trends in the United Arab Emirates market.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced that it “fully expects” to reverse
Medicare Part B rate cuts for separately payable drugs acquired through the 340B Drug Pricing Program,
resulting in an estimated additional $1.96 billion for 340B hospitals. Learn more through this blog post released by Foley & Lardner.

A sample list of questions designed to better define the value and scope of work for outside counsel.

A helpful checklist for outlining an international joint venture.

In-house pro bono continues to thrive, despite uncertainties in the market, a stressful business climate and a continuing push to control costs and do more with less. A panel of leading in-house counsel will give an overview of in-house pro bono, discuss the role of CLOs and other leaders in supporting such efforts and address the growth and importance of in-house pro bono within legal departments, companies and the communities where they work.

To support your global practice, ACC Docket offers country-specific fun facts from your peers who've been there - literally. This time, we're looking at Greece.

This InfoPAK (now known as ACC Guides) provides a high-level overview on private acquisitions law and practice in the United States.

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 Austraila.

In an era where music is becoming an openly shared commodity, the fate of music sampling — or the process of incorporating old songs into new recordings — has never been more uncertain. Starting in the early 1990s, the legality behind sampling practices changed dramatically, as material that was once freely repurposed became protected under the threat of copyright infringement. By chronicling this growth, in-house counsel can better understand how the tune changed along the way.

This InfoPAK addresses United States laws imposing export controls and economic and trade sanctions. These laws and their implementing regulations can present unique challenges to businesses, as they are complex and often, can be counter-intuitive to the business person. Nevertheless, U.S. government enforcement agencies expect companies to know the rules governing cross-border commerce. Further, an increasing number of companies are being held accountable for violations of these laws and regulations and are receiving ever-increasing
penalties.

Effective support of a company’s sales function requires striking the right balance between making it easy and efficient for the company and its customers to contract with each other, while appropriately protecting the company against key risks. Legal departments are required to do more with less, so the approach taken to supporting the sales function must be efficient. The panelists will discuss strategies for achieving these goals, including identification of different customer types and approaches for each type, clear identification of key risks and tolerances, contract simplification and the use of plain English, sales force training and self-help tools, and processes to streamline the collection of information, drafting, negotiation, authorization and tracking of contracts.

This sample checklist walks in-house counsel through the Intellectual Property (IP) due diligence process, in preparation for negotiating the asset purchase agreement.