Recently, European Union officials have called into question the efficacy of the Safe Harbor framework — a practical, cost-effective solution for many companies involving the collection of personal data of EU residents and its transfer to the United States. Although Safe Harbor will likely not be revoked, companies should consider whether alternate data transfer mechanisms can meet their needs.
This Quick Overview discusses how sports and entertainment employers that have noncompete agreements with their employees in the US, or are considering them, should respond to developments at the federal and state levels.
This guide covers common issues regarding private client laws in 24 jurisdictions.
Topics explored include pre-entry tax planning, connection factors, taxation issues on inward investment, succession planning, trusts and foundations, immigration issues, and tax treaties.
With more and more employees filing discrimination allegations - and following the passing of significant employment laws and regulations - in-house counsel need to be proactive. Learn 10 tried and true strategies for avoiding employment-related litigation.
Learn about legal issues that frequently arise in social media advertising, at an era where negative posts can be extremely damaging and hard to effectively control after their release. This short article discusses commercial social media posts, giveaways, contests, sweepstakes and similar promotions, confidential information, copyright and trademark infringement, rights of publicity and privacy, user generated content, endorsements, direct messages, privacy and data security, records retention and spoliation.
This guide provides a legal overview for companies doing business in Massachusetts (United States).
An overview of the Discounted Cash Flow Model of asset valuation. The model relates the value of an asset to the present value of expected future cash flows on that asset, discounted back at a rate that reflect the riskiness of these cash flows.
Do business in countries facing US sanctions at your own risk. The US<br />Office of Foreign Asset Controls (OFAC) is aggressively pursuing violators who<br />circumvent its prohibitions on evasion and facilitation. In-house counsel<br />operating in countries and regions monitored by the OFAC should be wary<br />of engaging in advocacy or seeking to find a work-around to these controls.
This InfoPAK (now known as ACC Guides) provides a practical guide to joint ventures, including practice notes and standard documents for cross-border deals with detailed drafting notes highlighting the main legal, commercial and negotiating issues in Singapore.
For many years, the United States drove global anti-corruption efforts through vigorous enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. More recently, other jurisdictions have begun to assert themselves in the anti-corruption arena. Brazil joined those countries in 2014 by enacting a tough new anti-corruption law. This program will cover the main aspects addressed in the new law such as the penalties imposed, incentives for companies to establish and enforce effective compliance programs, leniency provisions and incentives for companies to self-report violations, impact on multinational companies doing business in Brazil and how they can prepare their existing compliance programs, impact on companies conducting internal investigations in Brazil and other relevant aspects.
In the big picture world of project management, ensuring the overall success of a project is a project manager''s top priority. If a project goes wildly over-budget (as they often do), it will not be considered a success, even if it''s delivered on time and meets the customer or client needs. That''s why project managers need to better manage their project plans and budgets. Learn the strategies and techniques for maintaining control of your internal and external projects and budgets and preventing massive cost overruns. This session will help you identify and develop the building blocks and steps that, if followed as a single unit and truly embraced by the entire team, will provide the roadmap to project management perfection.
When it comes to controlling ediscovery costs, in-house counsel often rely on one of two options: Let outside counsel handle it or settle the case. However, there is a third option that involves using internal resources and litigation support vendors. Read on to learn more about what this option entails, as well as recommendations for reducing future ediscovery costs.
The tax reforms that most countries are currently facing are numerous and difficult, and temptation is high to reinforce strongly the legal means given to tax administrations to seek and collect information aimed at increasing much needed tax collections. However, the interaction between tax administrations and the taxpayer needs to be balanced and neutral from unjustified suspicion. The new powers granted to tax administrations cannot be limitless or go beyond the higher principles that govern our democracies.
This handbook provides for an overview of the applicable privacy and data protection laws and regulations across 63 different jurisdictions and guides you through this complex area of compliance. It is an important source for information for legal departments of corporations, irrespective of the location of their headquarters.
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.
This is an article on lawyers and leadership from the American Bar Association Center for Professional Responsibility, Standing Committee on Professionalism
2010 Volume 20 No. 3.
A comparative global guide of foreign investment regimes in many jurisdictions.
This resource presents ten key tips on educating and training employees about legal holds.
Sharing sensitive data with ChatGPT for work, such as source code and meeting minutes, may be labeled a “data leak” due to fears that ChatGPT can disclose the data to the public once it is trained on the data. In response, many companies took action, such as banning or restricting access, or creating ChatGPT data disclosure policies. This resource from Seyfarth and Shaw discusses the implications of ChatGPT on trade secrets, disclosures, and provides key takeaways to consider with AI tools.
This article explains whether private-sector employers are required to acknowledge federal holidays and provide premium holiday pay, it highlights Juneteenth National Independence Day and provides ways for companies to celebrate the holiday, and it summarizes federal contractor holiday pay requirements and religious accommodation obligations. Finally, this article underscores the importance of a holiday pay policy, identifies “do’s and don’ts” for holiday parties, and sets forth public-sector employer holiday pay requirements.
This InfoPAK (now known as ACC Guides) gives a succinct overview of restraints of trade, monopolies and abuses of market power in China.
This September Docket article discusses considerations in drafting contractual indemnification provisions for what we call the “multiple supplier scenario.”
This InfoPAK (now known as an ACC Guide) provides a "question & answer" guide to corporate crime, fraud and investigations in the United States. This guide gives a high level overview of matters relating to corporate fraud, bribery and corruption, insider dealing and market abuse. In addition, it summarizes money laundering and terrorist financing, financial record keeping, due diligence, corporate liability, immunity and leniency, and whistleblowing.
On its surface, the transition from lawyer to CEO may seem like a natural progression. To showcase this unique trajectory, Chris Sacca, founder of Lowercase Capital, Mitch Garber, CEO of Caesars Acquisition Company, and Anna Santeramo, co-founder of Stylebee.com, provide insight for the next lawyer-turned-entrepreneur.
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