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This article shows how sending a link is often in compliance with the obligations created by copyright law, while attaching documents or cutting and pasting often is not — but the distinction appears lost on users.

This article provides practical guidance on a number of key issues related to contracting with physicians and other referral sources.

This guide focuses on Brazil, and 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.

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This report is based on interviews with 100 finance directors, investment decision-makers and financial controllers in Europe’s largest life insurers. These firms represent 19% of the total European life insurance market. The research sample in this report includes leaders from the major markets of the UK, France, Germany and Italy, as well as some of the largest players from Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland. Interviews were conducted in July 2013.

Read this article to find out several key risk areas that require significant attention by legal counsel before a US or European member of a joint venture in Asia finds it necessary to discuss a break-up, dissolution, restructuring, or buy-out of a joint venture with its foreign partner.

In this Top Ten, learn tips as to how to organize your data protection practices. Now more than ever, companies are under pressure to create, implement, and maintain effective data protection plans.

This article discusses the Financial Conduct Authority's Restricted Mass Market Investments customer journey review. The review sets out findings on firms’ compliance with new rules for promotion of high risk investments to retail clients and provides examples of good and poor practice for firms to consider.

Many law departments now have preferred provider programs (PPPs) in place and many are working to establish them, but how can they take these PPPs to the next level? This session will discuss best practices in establishing and upgrading PPPs, including practical guidelines for changing the dynamic of your PPP from consolidation to practice area-driven needs. The panel’s discussion will cover PPPs for both outside counsel and vendors such as e-discovery providers.

Learn about the UK National Security and Investment Act 2021 allowing the UK government to scrutinize and intervene in acquisitions and investments in order to protect national security.

Public- and private-sector institutional purchasers are increasingly procuring “cloud” services. Purchasers are choosing cloud services for the anticipated improvements in efficiency, agility, scalability and cost effectiveness, while not necessarily understanding the impact on their organization’s sustainability performance. In this article, in-house counsel will learn how to identify potential sustainability impacts to migrating to cloud-based services.

This session and the workshop that follows will examine the external and internal factors that affect the longer-term profitability of the organization. Participants will understand the balance sheet, the income statement, and the statement of cash flow. We will also discuss how to identify red flags that signal financial difficulties or accounting problems.

Review of antitrust risk related to competitor collaboration.

Virtual currency is growing in use and recognition. Major entities, such as Microsoft, are beginning to recognize and accept Bitcoin payments, but most in-house counsel have little familiarity with virtual currency. Learn what it is, how it functions, how it may impact your clients and what domestic and international regulatory and enforcement regimes and issues – including enforcement actions and criminal prosecutions – have arisen from the evolving world of virtual currency. We will explain and explore the answers to these questions and demonstrate a Bitcoin transaction.

Contract management can mean a number of things to a number of people. In many cases they are looking at one stage in the contract life cycle. There is money to be saved at each stage of the life cycle if you have the resources to manage your contracts rather than responding to each. Every point identified in this article will not apply to every contract, but it will give you an idea of the things to consider at each stage of the process.

Part of the 2009 Annual Meeting Program Materials for Session 408.

Understand the global legal and regulatory landscape of data privacy, specifically how it relates to the transfer of data across borders.

Companies need to make their clients, colleagues and customers feel that their information is private and secure. That's just good business. But instituting relevant privacy policies and implementing new technologies is just the tip of the data security iceberg. Risk assessments, when performed regularly, are also a critical component to ensuring the effectiveness of a privacy compliance program.

This article outlines under which conditions a purchase agreement can be dissolved under Dutch law.

Get an overview of how to start a pro bono program in your legal department or ACC chapter through guidance and best practices; and learn of specific opportunities available to in-house pro bono programs, no matter the size of the ACC chapter or legal department.

This case law is on the issue of whether the equitable defenses of laches should apply in this case to bar the recovery of any pre-filing damages for infringement that NexTag might owe LendingTree and whether LendingTree should be equitably estopped from obtaining any relief on its infringement claims against NexTag.

A presentation focusing on how cultural differences can make international business a challenge.

What do clients really think about the legal department? Get the scoop on what clients like and don’t like about working with lawyers, their view of in-house counsel as budget managers, and their perceived value of in-house counsel crossing over to the business side.

The 2013 ACC Value Champions share how they achieve strong alignment between business clients, inside and outside counsel through leading management practices including pricing, collaboration and continuous improvement. This will be an interactive session, so bring your own questions and concerns.

Reengineering the Legal Function, by Mike Roster

This article aims to provide a general overview of the European Union's new regulation (EU) 2022/2554 on digital operational resilience for the financial sector, known as the Digital Operational Resilience Act ("DORA").

This article provides an overview of key issues that in-house or external counsel to a start-up company or smaller business should consider and address in advance of capital raising activities.