Everyone should have a plan for when they pass away and that includes your digital assets. Read through this guide to gain tips and know-how for your next steps.
In a world where technology is rapidly transforming every industry, legal departments face mounting pressure to keep pace. However, the journey toward integrating new technologies is fraught with challenges that can hinder progress. Legal operations professionals play a crucial role in overcoming these obstacles, guiding legal departments through the complexities of technology selection and implementation to ensure they achieve the best possible outcomes. Read here for more.
The Court ruled the Department of Justice and the USAO deliberately or callously prevented defendants from obtaining funds for their defense that they lawfully would have had absent the government's interference. This opinion includes a discussion of the Thompson Memorandum, and holds the Thompson Memorandum and the USAO's actions caused KPMG to limit and then cut off payment of fees for defense.
In this member profile, Freya Smith discusses how to build an in-house team from the ground up.
This comprehensive checklist identifies information for the due diligence process in connection with a proposed transaction between two parties. The entity responsible for producing requested documents should not have to create new documents. Production requests may seem duplicative; however, this is intentional in an effort to capture all relevant materials.
US-centric techniques are not always effective in achieving the desired results of cross-border negotiations. Americans can underestimate the impact of personal relationships upon the outcome of a proposed deal, for example, or can inadvertently generate negativity by insisting upon the inclusion of complex contracting and dispute resolution provisions. But how do you persuade your partner that a handshake just isn’t enough? This panel will discuss effective techniques for bridging cultural gaps in international negotiations.
Investigations into suspected non-compliance with anti-corruption regimes pose significant legal, financial and reputational risk to an organization. The rise in aggressive enforcement by global regulatory authorities leaves little doubt that businesses operating abroad or acquiring entities with off-shore operations must scrutinize their activities and compliance programs proactively to identify organizational risk and build a robust organization-wide compliance program. Explore practical issues and considerations raised by anti-corruption legislation in the United States, Canada and other jurisdictions, including best practices for handling investigations into potential breaches and dealing with enforcement, trends and developments for effective mergers and acquisitions, anti-corruption due diligence and proactive strategies, including self-reporting of potential breaches. Panelists include senior US, Canadian and UK in-house and external counsel with experience in addressing anti-corruption risks.
This issue of Canadian Briefings includes: Canadian Government Clarifies its Position on the Investment Canada Act by Dany Assaf, Jason McKenzie and Sarah McLean; International practice Almanac: British Columbia Canada Professional Regulation; Protocol Signed Amending the Canada-US Tax Treaty by Adrienne Oliver; Canada Shines Spotlight on World Stage by Carolyn Boyle; Canada Reconsiders Its Foreign Investment Policy by Terence Dobbin
Companies facing claims under the US False Claims Act ("FCA") frequently possess employment practices liability insurance ("EPL") claims to cover losses arising from the whistleblower's alleged wrongful or retaliatory termination. In this quick overview, learn about EPL coverage and common related insurance issues.
This article is a summary of major copyright developments between December 2014 and March 2015.
This is a template enterprise license agreement.
This is a sample company employee handbook.
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This Top Ten outlines ten considerations regarding Europe's proposed general data protection regulation.
This article provides practical antitrust compliance tools for SMEs and larger companies.
Because every business has employees, buy-sell agreements involve employees. This article provides a practical guide to the necessary, and not-so obvious, labor and employment issues that should be on in-house counsel’s “radar screen” when conducting merger and acquisition due diligence.
Learn about key regulatory developments and perspectives regarding Autonomous Vehicles (AV) in the world.
Much of the discussion around litigation is focused on companies involved in numerous lawsuits, but the reality is most organizations face few lawsuits of any significance each year. While the litigation landscape has changed in the past few years, what – if anything – should these low-litigation companies do to prepare? Many inside counsel believe they should probably be doing something, but how much preparedness do we really need, and how do we balance this with restrictive budgets? This panel of inside counsel from companies that historically have not had much litigation will address the extent the current litigation landscape in 2010 impacts their planning, what types of activities they are doing to prepare, traps low-litigation companies in particular face, as well as how they developed a business case for senior management for undertaking the readiness activities they pursued.
This session targets communicating key antitrust topics to your sales team.
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