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This is a sample code of conduct and conflicts of interest policy.

This guide covers common issues in lending and secured finance laws and regulations – including guarantees, collateral security, financial assistance, syndicated lending and LIBOR replacement – in 35 jurisdictions.

ABA amicus brief, Textron v. US

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.

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

Use this material to convince your CEO that you need to implement an effective compliance program or revamp your current one.

In-house counsel today exist in a vortex of competing and ever-changing legal requirements, regulatory schemes, technological developments, and budgetary constraints. This article tells you how to integrate technology into your legal department to simplify the task of thriving among these diverse and often contradictory forces, how to examine your internal processes, and how to implement technology to solve existing problems.

As baby boomers approach their golden years and prepare to exit the working world, they’ve been hit with the reality of a dismal economy coupled with longer life expectancies. Phased retirement has been a win-win opportunity for counsel who don’t want the obligation of a full-time workload and employers who need to harvest the skills of seasoned attorneys.

Litigation — everyone’s doing it. But a patent infringement suit has a specific set of consequences, some of them looming gloomy and dark over the future of your company if you find yourself engulfed in a case. Are there any other options for resolution aside from this pensive and painstaking process? Read on to explore the alternate road.

Diversity has been a corporate buzz word for quite some time. Based on Accenture’s system, it’s possible to take it from an idea to an action. Read how the company’s global legal network developed an inclusive internal environment and how that had a domino effect on their external relationships.

This summary of the 2024 ACC Law Department Compensation Survey provides high-level results of key in-house compensation metrics and employment trends in the in-house legal profession.

The goal of this paper is to provide assistance to corporate counsel in planning, managing and conducting internal investigations.

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.

After the Great Recession of 2008 and 2009, Mexico has emerged as one of the most attractive places to invest in manufacturing.

In this article key questions are answered by leading practitioners regarding business dominance.

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).

Corporate Governance One Year Later. Keep yourself up to date on NYSE/Nasdaq Corporate Governance rules and SEC disclosure.

This Quick Overview aims to provide company executives who are not tax professionals with a brief explanation of key tax points relevant to the transfer of patent assets in the United States.

1 January 2014 saw the implementation of Basel III in the European Union (EU) via the Capital Requirements Directive IV (CRD IV) and the Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR). These twin pieces of regulatory reform represent the biggest change to capital requirements for financial institutions since the financial crisis. The combined reforms introduce new capital, leverage and liquidity requirements, whilst also introducing new concepts such as capital buffers and imposing regulatory frameworks on securitisations, derivatives trading and remuneration policies. Read this series of briefing papers on the impact of CRD IV and the CRR.

This is a list of select Morrison & Foerster publications on cases from the Supreme Court's 2014 term in the United States.

Indian employers, akin to their global peers, are increasingly realising the importance of a safe and amicable work-place - for all sexes. This requires a conscious policy directive aimed at preventing workplace harassment instances coupled with an institutional mechanism for redressal of complaints in a quick, transparent and just manner.