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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.

As more companies reach across borders, in-house counsel must juggle ethical rules from different countries and avoid ethical problems. Does one country respect the attorney–client privilege or legal professional privilege that other countries offer? What happens when in-house lawyers and their clients work in different countries? And how can lawyers make sure that they have authorization to practice in all of the countries where they need to advise clients? Discover the answers to these ethical questions and others, to better navigate the globe.

While there are numerous reasons in-house attorneys might want to become involved in pro bono work, the business case for it may not seem as established as it is for law firms. In today's changing corporate world, the reasons are equally undeniable. Use this feature to pinpoint business-related benefits of having your legal department perform pro bono work.

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

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 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.

This article is an introduction to the dispute resolution framework in Switzerland.

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 guide provides a compilation of insights from legal practitioners around the world to assist in the identification and understanding of the laws and regulations that impact the drug and medical device industry.

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.)

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

Basic Metrics for Every Law Department

A presentation on how to manage your time in the technology age.

Provides guidance on effectively producing law department reports that communicate the company's legal situation, law department operations and productivity, and outside counsel management.

This checklist consists of a non-exhaustive set of questions that in-house counsel may wish to know the answers to prior to approving any technology agreements for their clients.

Unitranche facilities, with or without accompanying super senior revolving facilities, have become a more prominent feature of the European market in recent years, driven in part by the growing number of credit funds looking to provide this product.

Why do corporations lose in high-stakes litigation before juries? A number of factors may be to blame — including plaintiffs portraying corporations as uncaring monsters long before any parties set foot in the courtroom. In this program, we will address how to overcome Ball and Keenan’s Reptilian Theory by transforming the perception of the company from the inception of the case. Our panel will focus on the use of themes (including company mottos and corporate vision statements), proper preparation of the corporate representative, and innovative approaches to voir dire, opening statement, closing argument, and demonstrative exhibits, all focused on portraying the corporation in the most favorable light possible and contributing to the best outcome at trial.

This course explains our policy on giving business courtesies — gifts, meals and entertainment — to those with whom we do business, as well as our policy on accepting business courtesies. (Licensed for use in classroom settings only and not for distribution in any form.)

The desire for work-life balance is one of the primary reasons lawyers move in-house. Yet, despite its perceived benefits, in-house work comes with its own set of work-life balance challenges.