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 the United Kingdom.

This short article presents significant changes in the regulation of Russian legal entities as part of the reform of Russia's Civil Code.

The advent of new technology, staffing models, and legal operations strategy is driving profound change and disruption in the way in-house teams are delivering legal services for their organisations. Just as the global in-house sector is rapidly evolving, the Japanese in-house sector too is experiencing immense change.

In this Quick Overview, learn more about how Japanese Chief Legal Officers (CLOs) and their companies are dealing with these changes.

This multi-jurisdictional guide covers rules and developments regarding data protection across a range of jurisdictions.

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, developed by Womble Bond Dickinson, continues the 11- month countdown to develop business compliance strategies for three new omnibus privacy laws coming in 2023: January 1: the California Consumer Privacy Rights Act (which amends the existing CCPA) and the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act; July1: the Colorado Privacy Act. With 8 months to go, this alert compares the individual rights granted under each of the state privacy laws.

In this multi-country guide, learn about the rules regarding whistleblower protection and reporting channels in a wide range of jurisdictions.

In this Top Ten, in-house counsel can learn ten steps that your business can take to measure, mitigate, and monitor social risks across operations and supply chains.

This is a list of documents to support third-party litigation financing.

This blog post focuses on health care companies who are increasingly using artificial intelligence (AI) to create innovations, set prices, and compete with rivals. At the same time, federal and state antitrust enforcers are finding new ways to apply antitrust law to the modern, data-driven economy. Amid these myriad changes in technology and the law, the time is ripe to consider what the growth of AI in health care means for antitrust compliance.

This is a sample trademark registration and assignment agreement, between a company that manufactures a product and an exclusive distributor, and under which the distributor agrees to prosecute and serve as registrant of the trademarks for the product's brand names, and under which the distributor agrees to assign the trademarks to the producing company following termination of the distribution agreement. The sample includes a choice of New York law.

If you are wondering which inexpensive or free technology-related solutions are available for your legal department, this session is for you. The panel will cover solutions ranging from workflow efficiencies to professional/social collaboration and networking. This session will also include multi-media demonstrations and tips on how to customize these solutions to meet your individual and department needs.

It's not just boiler plate! This program will help you negotiate important clauses even with the 800 pound gorillas that everyone says will not change their "standard" contract language. To do this, you need to get past the gatekeepers. Those gatekeepers are internal and the other side with whom you are negotiating. Build influence by choosing the important issues to negotiate and help your internal constituents understand the importance to gain momentum. The panel will present negotiation and drafting tips designed to complement and refine your approach based upon differing internal and external pressures to "get the deal done."

Consider this checklist to help you assess compliance with the Personal Information Protection Law of China ("PIPL") adopted on 20 August 2021.

With the pandemic, there came a digital health explosion, with companies working swiftly to bring new technologies to light that would pave the way forward in telehealth and other critical areas. We saw an incredible interest in this space then, but what is the state of digital health now? This resource from Foley & Lardner LLP looks at data from public and private financing markets in the digital health space in 2022, and look forward to what to expect in 2023.

This article, developed by Womble Bond Dickinson, continues the 11- month countdown to develop business compliance strategies for three new omnibus privacy laws coming in 2023: January 1: the California Consumer Privacy Rights Act (which amends the existing CCPA) and the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act; July1: the Colorado Privacy Act and few others. With 7 months to go, this alert focuses on how state privacy laws will be enforced.

Your customers and fans can be your biggest assets when it comes to championing your brand or products, or they can be your harshest critics, infringe on your IP rights and damage your brand. How do you take advantage of positive content they create and share without putting your company at risk? How do you protect yourself from the negative content? This panel will address the liability concerns around the use of user-generated content, including IP protection and infringement, Federal Trade Commission guidelines, rights of publicity and defamation. It will provide insights into safe harbors of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and Communications Decency Act, and ways to obtain consent. It will also address factors to consider based on the terms and conditions of the most popular social media sites (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram).

This article explains the nature of D&O coverage, outlines the effects of an insured's bankruptcy, and offers practical tips to help your company get the most out of its D&O policy in the event of bankruptcy, all while complying with the applicable law.

Your company has one opportunity to make a good or at least a competent first impression to promptly defuse a situation. You can use the media effectively to present balanced facts to the public following a crisis, to neutralize biased or inaccurate reporting and to improve your reputation. As in-house counsel, you should be involved on the front line from the beginning. This article shows you how to develop an effective media relations plan not only to minimize the negative, but also to accentuate the positive.

In this primer, explore how courts and arbitral institutions are now offering new, faster ways to resolve protracted disputes which can be costly, drain management time and resources, jeopardise the success of projects, damage on-going business relationships and even undermine the operational and financial futures of the companies involved.

This article discusses the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) final rule amending Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) privacy regulations to provide significant additional protections for protected health information relating to reproductive health care.