Explains the legal and regulatory developments that compel your company's (and the legal department's) active involvement in corporate social responsibility (CSR) issues, and offers suggestions on how to develop a business case for CSR leadership.
A study of Legal Entity Management structures, governance best practices, and challenges based on survey responses from 467 organizations covering 20 industries and all global regions.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
The Spanish "REIT" was founded in October 2009 under the name of Sociedades Anónimas Cotizadas de Inversión en el Mercado Inmobiliario ("SOCIMI"). Its legal regime was set out in the Law 11/2009 of 26 October, which was subsequently amended by Law 16/2012 of 27 December to relax the legal requirements for their incorporation, remove the regulatory barriers and enhance the tax treatment applicable from 2009.
A sample Working Document setting up a table with the elements and principles to be found in Binding Corporate Rules.
He won the European championship of American football as a strong safety ... two times. For several years, he was a constant envoy to North Korea. More recently, he offered assistance to the Japanese after the Fukushima nuclear disaster and facilitated the destruction of chemical weapons in Syria during a vicious civil war. Karim Hammoud, senior legal officer of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, is a lawyer on a macro level.
Laure Deron moved to her current company, Veolia China, in 2011, where she works on the energy, waste and water businesses. She likes the trend of environmental consciousness she sees. “I came back not just to build a factory, but to also operate a factory in a way that it doesn’t damage the rest of the continent,” she says.
Corporate Governance One Year Later. Keep yourself up to date on NYSE/Nasdaq Corporate Governance rules and SEC disclosure.
In-house counsel’s increased strategic and business-focused responsibilities frequently result in greater challenges to corporate privilege claims. Attorneys and corporations need to take precautions in all forms of communications to preserve attorney-client privilege.
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.
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.
In this article, learn key features of healthcare compliance programs in the United States.
This article discusses how corruption is one of the critical challenges multinationals face when doing business in China, and how pharmaceutical companies and the healthcare industry have been hit hard by the Chinese anti-corruption campaign.
No one can anticipate every bump in the road. If you take each crisis in stride, however, you can use the experience to prepare for the future. For instance, a career resilience plan can shorten recovery time and aid in transferring skill sets from one career path to another. Learn seven key components of any career resilience plan.
This article exposes in-house counsel to the possibility of non-administered arbitration, explaining the potential benefits — saving cost and time — and addressing concerns regarding the alternative. Read this how-to guide to pursue non-administered arbitration resources.
The legal departments of Levi Strauss & Co. and Pfizer Inc. have respectively implemented innovative programs with outside counsel to provide better value and results: Levi’s “global partnerships” and Pfizer’s “legal alliance.” Find the key elements and success stories of each department’s program.
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