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This training course will help you recognize these "red flags" and respond appropriately. If you have any questions about how this material applies to your job responsibilities, please direct them to your supervisor

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.

This course will help you to understand what retaliation is and how to avoid it while carrying out your day-to-day managerial responsibilities.

This course includes information about (1) workplace-violence prevention, (2) risk factors, (3) how to identify a threatening situation, and (4) what to do if you're in or near one. (Licensed for use in classroom settings only and not for distribution in any form.)

These guidelines describe private, individual participation in social media channels such as Facebook, Twitter, personal blogs, forums, YouTube, Flickr etc. for company employees.

Although globalization offers tremendous promise, it also presents companies with many new challenges. Among them is the need to develop creative, efficient, and responsive functional models for the provision of legal services. Companies establishing operations beyond their home market must decide whether and how to create in-house legal teams to support the broad spectrum of legal needs in other countries. This article offers a glimpse into the myriad of issues that surround those decisions and outlines how some global company law departments have structured themselves in response.

Three elements work together to comprise an effective and successful software license transaction. You may not know them offhand but after reading this article, which details how certain information can raise potential licensing issues, you’ll glean a better understanding of the practical matters swirling around the process.

This September Docket article discusses considerations in drafting contractual indemnification provisions for what we call the “multiple supplier scenario.”

This Top Ten lists 10 tips to create a comprehensive crisis communications plan.

The rapid spread of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems in recent years has overlapped with the enactment of comprehensive privacy laws by U.S. states. Several of the comprehensive state privacy laws have provisions that specifically address certain uses of AI systems, in particular use in profiling.

This article surveys those provisions and assumes the reader is already familiar with basic concepts in the comprehensive privacy laws, such as controllership and applicability thresholds.

This Wisdom of the Crowd, compiled from responses posted on the Employment & Labor and Compliance & Ethics Network Forums addresses concerns about internal investigation policies and authorization of an employee's computer and electronic records in the US.

This Top Ten focuses on protections needed in a ground lease in order for a leasehold mortgagee to consider the ground lease financeable.

This sample form includes a checklist to follow when reviewing an agreement to obtain approval.

This training course provides an overview of OFAC sanctions and their key provisions. It will help you recognize situations presenting a risk of legal violations and deal with them properly.

Getting the Deal Through is delighted to publish the ninth edition of Arbitration, a volume in our series of annual reports, which provide international analysis in key areas of law and policy for corporate counsel, cross-border legal practitioners and business people.

This InfoPAK (now known as ACC Guides) provides a high-level overview on private acquisitions law and practice in South Korea.

This course outlines the policies and procedures that help safeguard the safety and health of all employees.

This course is intended to help you avoid contention, conflict and dissatisfaction among your employees. If left unchecked, employee discontent can lead to high turnover, low morale and efforts to unionize. (Licensed for use in classroom settings only and not for distribution in any form.)

Recently, US Justice Sonia Sotomayor, on behalf of a unanimous Supreme Court, held that funds contained within inherited IRAs are not “retirement funds” — a ruling, known as the Clark decision, that notably alters the landscape of inherited IRAs under the Bankruptcy Code. What will the world of bankruptcy, inherited IRAs and estate planning look like post-Clark?

Large companies with employees located across the country need to consider the dangers of “one- size-fits-all” covenants.

This session will focus on the creation of a strategic plan that establishes the law department as a creator of value in addition to delivering superior service of core legal functions. Starting with how a legal department can create strategy that delivers a financial benefit to the company, as well as moving the function to becoming a cost-neutral function, and in some circumstances, a positive financial contributor to the company. The program will review different law department structures and current trends in how to optimize your structure, align with your business, build an inclusive law department, and assess how to optimally source and staff work internally for different tasks to achieve your strategic goals. This program is designed to benefit every corporate attorney, from the entry-level associate to the experienced general counsel, as it argues for a less traditional perspective of the legal department within the modern corporate structure.

Lisa Seilheimer, who, at the time of this interview, was senior counsel - litigation at Kaplan, Inc., discusses dealing with litigation in-house, as well as the importance of leadership.

Although it may be more commonplace now, Napoe admits that, at the time, a recent graduate immediately going in-house was “quite unusual.” For Napoe, however, who received her undergraduate degree in business, it made total sense. “I like a good challenge and I like a good problem to solve,” she says. “Being in-house, doing corporate law, it gives me an opportunity to combine the two.

In an exclusive interview, the National Association of Corporate Directors’ general counsel and special advisor on cybersecurity discuss the in-house counsel’s role in helping companies effectively prepare against cyber risks.

Provides a practical approach and process as well as proven tools and techniques for developing a technology plan that will support the Legal function

This publication has been prepared to provide an overview to foreign investors and business people who have an interest in doing business in the Bahamas.

Decades of research point to the superior financial performance of corporations that sustain strong ethical cultures. But what exactly does doing the “right” thing entail? Learn the essential elements of an ethical business decision.

610 Financial & Accounting Issues for In-house Practitioners

This Leading Practices Profile describes the structure of law departments and the role of general counsel in Canada in providing in-house legal services to support multinational businesses. In-house counsel from eight companies reveal how their in-house legal departments are structured and operate, and how they manage the various functions of their law departments, including compliance, technology, retention of outside counsel and providing value to the corporations
they serve.