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This article discusses European Data Protection Board report's list of recommendations for data protection officers in the European Union.

Merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions often represent a defining moment for an organization. For small in-house law departments, the process associated with such a transaction may appear daunting. This article provides small law department practitioners with a roadmap, identifying many of the significant M&A landmarks that one will encounter on the trip toward the acquisition or disposition of a business.

Discusses strategy for assessing and protecting your company's intellectual property assets and opportunities that you may have to patent its unique business methods.

The Canadian government issued this document to provide guidance to private sector organizations, both small and large, when a privacy breach occurs. Organizations should take preventative steps prior to a breach occurring by having reasonable policies and procedural safeguards in place, and conducting necessary training. This guideline is intended to help organizations take the appropriate steps in the event of a privacy breach and to provide guidance in assessing whether notification to affected individuals is required. Not all steps may be necessary, or some steps may be combined.

To better protect against infringement, in-house counsel should understand the digital do’s and don’ts of copyright regulation so that an inadvertent “copy and paste” doesn’t lead to millions in liability for the company.

Leverage your partnership skills with the business and bring legal strategies to use sustainability for cost savings or profit. Panelists will discuss their experience with transactions such as water reuse efforts, solar rooftops, clean energy fleet services, becoming your own utility, public–private partnerships, power purchase agreements using clean energy brokers, reduction in inventory packaging, wrapping and disposal. Materials will include US Securities and Exchange Commission disclosures of sustainability efforts, sample contracts and case studies.

General counsel are expected to operate dynamically within organisations and innovate their function from a cost burden to a source of value. In this article, creative and innovative ways to show your value are discussed.

Performing pro bono service can be challenging for the in-house attorney. Most pro bono service involves direct work with individual clients in need, and the usual client of the in-house attorney is a corporation or nonprofit entity. This article details the efforts of one corporate law department to create a successful pro bono program.

Tools & Solutions for Doing Your Job Better in November 2007

When a company hires an employee away from a competitor, alarms are likely to go off for the in-house counsel. The new employee may be on the up and up, but what happens if your competitor claims that they stole confidential, proprietary, and trade secret information––transferring it all through their email––and are now subpoenaing your company’s computers? Technological advances have made the transferring of such data easy for employees who move around so frequently and in-house attorneys need to know how to respond while protecting their company’s own confidential information.

Over 55% of IT decision makers state targeted Phishing attacks is their top security threat. In fact, 92% of all malware is delivered by these emails. These emails are difficult. The messages are intended to spark the recipient’s emotion and/or sense of urgency to reply back. The emails appear to be from a legitimate sender. There are numerous ways to educate your users to watch for the signs of a Phishing attack. Be sure to listen to the recording of this presentation to learn more about the phishing scams and a new rising threat for these attacks called the Account Takeover Attacks. Here are some tips for preventing and managing phishing attacks.

This InfoPAK (now known as ACC Guides) provides a practical guide of data protection rules and principles, right to access personal data or object to its collection in China.

Law firm respond to suggestions of poor customer service differently. This article describes one hypothetical possibility.

The data protection issues raised by outsourcing are important to
virtually every medium or large organization. Most have multiple service providers processing personal information on their behalfâ??a customerservice call center, a pensions/benefits administrator, a payroll administrator. And, an increasing number of organizations have at least some of their data processed offshore. The consequences of ignoring the related data protection issues are significant. It's not just reputational risks that are growing,
there are also legal exposures to fines and civil penalties. In this
article, the authors identify the most common data protection issues created by outsourcing and similar service provider arrangements, and suggest practical solutions for addressing them.

This InfoPAK (now known as ACC Guides) provides a for international joint ventures, including preliminary notes, identities of the parties, financing and other joint ventures practicalities. These checklists are meant to review issues in a global context.

In the wake of the US Supreme Court decision to legalize same-sex marriage and recent legislation surrounding transgender rights, in-house counsel must tune out the controversy and ensure that their company remains compliant with changing state and federal regulations.

In this article, key questions are answered by leading practitioners regarding health care, pharmaceutical, and medical device industry laws and compliance in Italy.

This intensive discussion will focus on related-party transactions entered into by a hypothetical multinational company and how you can recognize transfer pricing issues that arise from transactions involving goods, services and IP. Learn how to resolve common transfer pricing problems that arise before and after an IRS examination.

Provides a sense of the issues that you need to consider in a document retention policy and discusses the pitfalls associated with any document retention policy (or the absence of one) and some ideas of how to proceed.

This course will explain the Canadian federal legislation - the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) - regarding the collection, use and disclosure of personal information. (Licensed for use in classroom settings only and not for distribution in any form.)

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

Three Party Escrow Service Agreement for Canada

Most large organizations use email disclaimers: wording carefully crafted by lawyers, automatically inserted at the end of every email. This article discusses what the disclaimers actually do.

Company-wide training: It sounds good on paper and is theoretically designed to improve your staff's knowledge and performance. But long after the hours are completed, the booklets are shelved and the notes are misplaced, how much will you and your colleagues be able to recall from that hour or so of company training? Find some realistic solutions to making that information stick.

The challenge for most legal departments today is daunting: Do it more, do it quickly, do it with fewer in-house staff, and, above all, keep costs down. Many law departments have come to appreciate that the cultivation of a staff of nonlawyers is as important-if not more important-than staffing corridors of offices full of JDs with sterling credentials. It's a lot less expensive, too.