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This is a sample code of conduct and conflicts of interest policy.

The "STARR" framework involves coordination between client and law firm to achieve better value in complex litigation. This Value Practice resource gives details.

A powerpoint presentation of the Corporate Counsel University session 201- Tech Solutions for Your Law Department.

This is a state by state medical testing background checklist.

This multijurisdictional guide covers common issues in initial public offerings, including the IPO process, regulatory architecture, public company responsibilities, potential risks, liabilities, and pitfalls.

You’ve recently been tapped to create your company’s compliance and ethics program from scratch, but quickly realize that each step seems more complicated than the last. However, fear not. With an acute understanding of your company’s compliance needs, in-house counsel can set the stage for future success.

It’s not a great time to be looking for a job; similarly, it’s not a great time to lose some of your company’s legal talent. The strength of a law department is in its ability to assemble — and hold on to — strong attorneys. Learn how to build and maintain your legal dream team.

Law remains one of the least racially diverse professions in the United States and is still predominately male. Faced with this reality, Diversity Lab came up with a novel idea to resolve lingering inequalities in the field.

As in-house counsel, you're constantly trying to find ways to turn a company's lemons into lemonade. So imagine if you could turn litigation, one of legal's sourest lemons, into a source of revenue. By making use of litigation financing, what was once a costly burden can transform into a functioning profit center.

Review recent global legal and public policy developments in the technology realm; Identify reasons many corporate counsel are unprepared to conduct adequate cybersecurity risk assessments; and Learn best practices in cybersecurity risk management and data breach crisis response.

This Quick Counsel outlines how to hire, train, develop objectives for, and supervise a records management & information governance team.

The goal of this paper is to provide assistance to corporate counsel in planning, managing and conducting internal investigations.

With increased immigration law enforcement on corporations, foreign national employees should not be an afterthought in the restructuring process. This article gives in- house counsel the know-how they need to be proactive in dealing with immigration issues during a change.

This article outlines GE's view on corporate social responsibility and its approach to creating and adopting new corporate governance standards in response to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the proposed New York Stock Exchange listing requirements. It explains how GE intends for these new standards to be a positive model for the corporate community to review and debate.

This InfoPAK (now known as ACC Guides) gives a succinct overview of restraints of trade, monopolies and abuses of market power in Switzerland.

This guide, initially published in 2020, reflects on the remote adjustments of working environments within the COVID-19 pandemic and looks forward at the ever evolving laws and regulations surrounding remote work. The push for employers to embrace remote work remains strong, but there are many factors to consider in this shift.

Part of risk management is managing the enterprise’s insurance coverage, submitting claims and getting claims paid. Insurance companies often avoid paying claims. You will learn: what the insurance companies’ obligations are with respect to claims adjusting; how to manage the process and maximize your recovery; insurer duties and the insured’s obligations; what to do when you get denials or reservation of rights letters; how the tri-party relationship of insurer, defense counsel and insured works; whether you can get in-house attorneys’ fees paid; and some creative ways to settle claims with insurers.

Preliminary findings of a five year perspective on the progress of women and visible minorities in senior leadership roles in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA).

This social media policy concerns the ethical rules that must be followed by all company personnel participating in social media to keep the company from violating these rules.

Corporate Governance One Year Later. Keep yourself up to date on NYSE/Nasdaq Corporate Governance rules and SEC disclosure.

In parallel to the handling of legal cases in daily operations, every legal department has knowledge management on the top of its agenda. In an international legal department, an accurate response tailored to the company needs may make the difference between success and failure, noting the difference in needs and resources between small and large departments that are centrally or internationally located. These aspects will be elaborated and opinions will be exchanged in an interactive workshop that will bring new ideas and practical solutions to in-house lawyers.

Snapshot of IBI Group dashboard, introduction to IBI Group's BotIBI and a sample LawGeex contract review issue summary.

This articles discusses the ongoing legal, ethical, and social debate regarding the role, if any, to afford personal privacy in a globalized and electronic public health surveillance system during a pandemic response.

This guide 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.

It isn't hard to collect data in this day and age. What is hard is figuring out what to do with it. Learn how to tame that data and turn it into useful information with value by using data analytics for budgeting, training, alternative fee arrangements, resourcing, investing in new technologies and more.

Discusses how to realize some of the many benefits, including reducing legal costs, improving quality in legal services, producing better legal outcomes and restructuring relationships, that flow from strategic management ideas to legal functions.

This article provides a summary overview of information-related legal requirements, identifies specific legal requirements that expressly compel organizations to establish crucial building blocks for an effective information governance program and is a discussion of how information compliance requirements provide compelling synergies for the information governance approach.