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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.

Tools & Solutions for Doing Your Job Better in November 2007

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.

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.

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

This article discusses the UK Financial Conduct Authority's guidance setting out next steps to enhance sustainability reporting by listed companies.

The Pensions Regulator has published final versions of its new Codes of Practice on monitoring money purchase pension contributions and reporting late payments. The two Codes (there are parallel versions for trustees of occupational pension schemes and for insurers or other providers of personal pensions) are less prescriptive than was originally proposed. They now also include material on the responsibility of employers and members to check that contributions are paid correctly and on time.

Learn what’s new in the realm of executive compensation and how to advise your board and company executives to prevent surprises. Discuss pay for performance, performance metrics and pay ratios. Share best practices for conducting a comprehensive, cross-functional “Say on Pay” shareholder engagement strategy. Examine the role that governance attorneys play (or should play) in executive compensation. Explore recent trends in executive compensation disclosure.

Implications of US Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization for employers in the United States

The decision is an example of the English Courts’ willingness to develop and apply existing case law to contemporaneous disputes, in this case in relation to crypto assets and persons unknown who might be out of the jurisdiction (a common feature of such cases) to ensure victims have a timely means of tracing and recovering stolen assets.

As cross-border trade and investment continues to grow, so does the need for fair, neutral and efficient resolution of international commercial disputes. International arbitration has emerged as the principal dispute resolution method for such disputes, but has become hampered in recent years by increasing costs and delays. Various proposals have been made to improve the situation. Two of these have already gained traction, namely emergency arbitration and expedited arbitration;and three new proposals are now circulating, namely appeals from arbitral awards, Bilateral Arbitration Treaties, and Hybrid National Arbitration-Courts.

In this Top Ten, in-house counsel will ten important points to consider when employers want to recruit people from states that are not part of the European Union (EU) or of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) to work in Switzerland.

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

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.

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 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.)

Three Party Escrow Service Agreement for Canada

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.

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.

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

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.

This guide provides corporate counsel and international practitioners with comprehensive jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction guidance to trade mark laws and regulations around the world.

These Rules and Regulations provide participants (regulated persons) in the capital market with more precise notice of what is expected of them, what conduct will be sanctioned and also promotes fairness and equality of treatment among similarly situated persons.

An intellectual property (IP) and information technology (IT) due diligence request list for use in connection with an M&A transaction. This request list is designed for IP specialists and is specific to IP and IT-related issues. This Standard Document has integrated notes<br />with important explanations and drafting tips.