Discusses how to maintain a company's financial integrity in a time of crisis by developing a strong FCPA compliance system, and analyzes the case of Monsanto Company that demonstrates how a company can use its financial predicament to ultimately build a best practices compliance program centered around meeting, and at times even exceeding, their legal obligations.
This brief overview (Quick Counsel) describes common mistakes customers and service providers make, and should be aware of, when negotiating cloud services agreements (but is not meant to be an exhaustive list).
Learn about Dubai's new regulation of virtual assets, Law No. 4 of 2022 on the Regulation of Virtual Assets in the Emirate of Dubai (the “RVA”).
“Good economics” in administrative proceedings: Three challenges
This article introduces six strategies to expand the legal department's organizational impact.
There’s plenty of opportunity for commercial entities to capitalize on the benefits of open source software. Experts predict that within four years, more than 80 percent of all commercial software will contain open source components. Are you, as a key player in your company’s legal department, familiar with the pitfalls associated with its uncontrolled use?
Some things are best left for others to figure out for themselves. Law is probably not one of them. The real question is how to teach someone, especially adult learners, this challenging discipline. Study a number of teaching methods, understand the different types of students and learn to successfully impart your wisdom onto others.
You miss the Socratic method of teaching that you endured during law school so much that you replicate it when teaching your clients (your organization’s employees). That could be a big mistake! Before you hop on this familiar bandwagon, let us explore some other teaching techniques that may serve your clients better.
Learn about the UK government's plans to formulate and improve right and opportunities for ethnic minorities in the United Kingdom.
A sample end user license agreement between an authorized user and a company, covering specific terms and conditions of usage such as license grant, restrictions, user obligations, proprietary rights, feedback and submission, liability limitations, indemnity, and a governing law clause (United States).
This article deals with resolving international disputes in Singapore.
While issuers continue to commit to sustainability/ESG objectives, for the first time since sustainability-linked bonds (SLBs) emerged, certain SLB issuers missed their sustainability targets in 2022 and early 2023. Further, market participants have recently expressed concerns about other SLB issuers in danger of not hitting their SPTs and, in general, about the credibility of SLBs in light of issuer ambitions and incentives to achieve sustainability targets. Issuers should consider the ambitiousness of their sustainability targets, any challenges in achieving the targets on schedule, and how they will prove their progress. In this resource, Latham & Watkins provides 10 takeaways relating to these developments for potential SLB issuers and their underwriters.
In a push to increase consumer understanding around the meaning of "carbon neutral" and "net zero" claims, the UK Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP) and Broadcast Committee of Advertising Practice (BCAP) have provided some updated guidance on misleading environmental claims and social responsibility in advertising. The guidance is intended to help encourage transparency and consensus of environmental-related claims in British advertising.
This article has been developed based on existing Code rules, rulings and a review of environmental claims and issues in advertising. This will be key for the air travel, energy and automotive sectors. The focus is on carbon neutral and net zeros adverts, as they are the most commonly encountered claims.
This article examines, from an English law perspective, the legal issues you need to be familiar with whether you are engaged in data scraping (either directly or through a third party), or if you are concerned that your content is being scraped and exploited without your consent.
Good business and good lawyering is more than just about making money. In this article, in-house counsel can learn about a peculiar start-up and how they made their mission a success.
Learn how the in-house team now holds the key to driving change to value focused engagement models.
Learn about certain provisions of Quebec's privacy protection act which come into force September 22, 2022 and a chcklist for organizations to prepare for compliance on governance, breach response, and with commercial transactions.
The Legal Operations Maturity Model is being provided in an excel format for our members convenience.
Although it may sound simple enough, transferring an employee to a company’s foreign office is a substantial undertaking for both offices involved. Drafting an effective secondment agreement can help you avoid potential disputes over any number of key terms. Learn to carefully prepare such an agreement, first, and have a successful secondment.
The impacts of climate change are upon us and corporations now face the ramifications. In this article, in-house counsel will learn about emerging duties that are impacted and affected by this climate crisis.
Your company can use assets and preserve capital by leasing commercial equipment. Learn to identify an agreement that will deliver tangible benefits — secure warranties on the equipment, protect capital and credit lines, and give your client tax advantages, among others.
This guide provides comprehensive insight into banking regulation in 19 jurisdictions around the world.
This guide covers key topics including regulatory architecture, bank capital requirements, bank governance/internal controls, Fintech, and rules governing banks’ relationships with their customers and other third parties.
This is a sample software license agreement.
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.
The accumulation of information and documents creates compliance risks, drives up the cost of ediscovery and hampers employee productivity. Learn how to create an effective program that can have a measurable impact on the business.
This is a checklist of regulatory sources of training requirements for registered broker dealers.
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