This piece highlights the increasing pressure within Australia on companies to address the issue of climate change. In particular, it highlighted the amount of landmark climate change cases that have been issued in recent months to compel the government or specific directors and officers to compel action on climate change. Indeed, Australia is the second most active jurisdiction for climate change litigation, with the United States being first.
Working with your Marketing Team - presentation held in Perth 9 March 2017.
This article provides a fresh perspective on how to navigate a legal career. From head of the Marketing and Intellectual Property group at McDonald’s to strategy officer of the Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana, Kathryn Mlsna reflects on her journey.
Women and minorities are not frequently appointed in ADR and the lack of diversity is palpable. While diversity mandates in hiring outside law firms are commonplace, corporations often leave the choice and selection of neutrals to outside counsel without considering or imposing diversity requirements. This article makes a case for why it is time to focus on this oversight and correct it.
Marilyn Heffley, assistant general counsel and chief litigation counsel at Sunoco, Inc., discusses the legal issues facing the Petroleum industry, including toxic tort cases and ediscovery protocols.
This is a sample company code of conduct policy.
This is a case law where the Plaintiff sought damages from defendant for not having given sufficient efforts in executing an exclusive distribution contract entered into between the parties.
This resource is a report published by the Coalition for Integrity, which summarizes how machine learning can be utilized in anti-bribery case and corruption compliance programs. It provides analyses of the advantages of the challenges of machine learning in these cases and makes subsequent recommendations for companies to consider as well.
This article describes very basic legal concepts that are very straightforward knowledge for Brazilian lawyers and transactional personnel.
A Preparation Workbook: a typical checklist to help condition stakeholders to the change while managing expectations and making change happen (and stick!).
Learn how to develop a powerful, scalable, flexible, feature-rich policy management system enables organizations to manage policies throughout all of the stages of the policy life cycle.
These guidelines are designed to communicate with investee companies regarding the objectives of engagement activities and to facilitate a better understanding of preferred terms of engagement.
Following the United States Supreme Court's recent opinion in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., recognize that certain closely-held, for-profit stock corporations can hold religious beliefs.
In-house counsel need look no further than the headlines for validation that it is not a matter of whether they will confront a cyber incident; instead, it is simply a matter of when. This program will explore the ways that digital risk affects all aspects of an in-house legal practice. From M&A to employment to litigation, managing cyber risks is no longer the exclusive domain of IT. This program will provide practical guidance on how all members of the in-house legal team can better prepare for and respond to cyber incidents to reduce their company’s financial, legal and reputational exposure.
510 - Welcome to Rookie Camp: 10 Things New In-house Lawyers Should Know
This statement is intended to alert financial institutions of specific risk mitigation related to cyber attacks compromising credentials.
Non-disclosure and confidentiality agreements are ubiquitous and used daily in a variety of contexts, from mergers and acquisitions to more ordinary course commercial transactions. Faculty will cover recent case law regarding confidentiality agreements in the acquisition context and describe some broader implications. We will provide a walk-through of common confidentiality provisions, and tips and perspectives for both the disclosing and recipient parties. Although most in-house counsel have experience with confidentiality agreements, this presentation will drill down on some of the pitfalls and important provisions that get missed. We will provide a confidentiality agreement form, marked to show different provisions and negotiating positions to serve as a useful guide.
"Endeavours" clauses, whether described as "all reasonable endeavours", "best endeavours" or "reasonable endeavours", have resisted a fixed definition in case law: their meanings are derived from the context of the relevant contract, rather than from decisions in previous cases. However, recent case law from Singapore and Australia has provided some general guidance on the interpretation of such clauses. This article examines these decisions and provides some practical tips for drafting such clauses.
The Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) published statistics regarding the use of its emergency arbitrator provisions. These show a record number of emergency arbitration applications received by the SIAC in the last year, in an increasingly broad range of sectors. Overall, the SIAC has handled 34 emergency arbitrations since this procedure was introduced in July 2010. It is a system that has been proven to work well, in itself; but there remain issues with emergency arbitration, particularly in the enforceability of emergency arbitration awards, as Ben Giaretta and Michael Weatherley explain.
Trade secret owners are faced with a myriad of issues, especially with the increasingly global marketplace. Business owners and leaders must address the risk of outright theft of their intellectual property by competitors or would-be competitors. International communication networks that make the theft of trade secrets as easy as pushing the “send” button magnify this trend. This interactive workshop will allow the attendees to work in groups and act as business leaders facing a trade secret crisis in their companies. The attendees will then choose how to address their crisis and which legal actions to take. Each team will take turns presenting their strategy to the entire group and, if necessary, the presenter will make recommendations for additional ways the teams could have protected their trade secrets.
This case law is on the issue of whether the equitable defenses of laches should apply in this case to bar the recovery of any pre-filing damages for infringement that NexTag might owe LendingTree and whether LendingTree should be equitably estopped from obtaining any relief on its infringement claims against NexTag.
A social media policy is highly desirable for setting clear standards in the workplace, but employer regulation of employees' out of work activities must be reasonable. Read this article to learn how you can use a social media policy for your employees.
This article will show you how to determine whether ebilling is a good move for you, and if so, how to select a system that is a good fit for both your law department and your outside law firms.
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.
Eighth edition of the Getting the Deal Through Anti-Corruption Regulation Guide, a volume that provides international analysis for corporate counsel, cross-border legal practitioners and business people.
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.
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