These are sample social computing guidelines regarding blogs, wikis, social networks, virtual worlds and social media.
A review of some of the legal issues inherent in job title inflation, with a focus on apparent authority liability and employee misclassification.
What legislation is applicable to insolvencies and reorganisations? What criteria are applied in your country to determine if a debtor is insolvent?
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 Switzerland.
This publication has been prepared to provide an overview to foreign investors and business people who have an interest in doing business in Honduras.
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.)
Some things are best left for others to figure out for themselves. Law is probably not one of them. The real question is how to teach someone, especially adult learners, this challenging discipline. Study a number of teaching methods, understand the different types of students and learn to successfully impart your wisdom onto others.
You miss the Socratic method of teaching that you endured during law school so much that you replicate it when teaching your clients (your organization’s employees). That could be a big mistake! Before you hop on this familiar bandwagon, let us explore some other teaching techniques that may serve your clients better.
This article focuses on the three stages of crisis management: the immediate stage, when you manage short-term effects; the intermediate stage, when you manage litigation and other collateral consequences and the final stage, when you evaluate long-term effects and put the crisis behind you.
The EU AI Act is hotly anticipated as being a benchmark AI law that other jurisdictions might look towards when developing their own laws (much like GDPR has become a standard upon which some other countries’ own laws are based). First, much like the GDPR in terms of impact, the EU AI Act will have an extra-territorial scope, extending to providers and users of AI outside the EU where the output is used in the EU. Secondly, the Act does lay down fixed penalties for certain infringements of the Act, the highest fine being 30,000,000 EUR or 6% of a company’s total worldwide annual turnover (3% in the case of an SME or start-up) for non-compliance with the prohibitions of AI practices.
This article discusses the rules of cartels, antitrust enforcement, leniency programs, and how to assess whether you are in a high-risk industry. Learn how to manage an internal cartel investigation and limit your exposure in case antitrust authorities accuse your company of participating in a cartel.
In a push to increase consumer understanding around the meaning of "carbon neutral" and "net zero" claims, the UK Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP) and Broadcast Committee of Advertising Practice (BCAP) have provided some updated guidance on misleading environmental claims and social responsibility in advertising. The guidance is intended to help encourage transparency and consensus of environmental-related claims in British advertising.
This article has been developed based on existing Code rules, rulings and a review of environmental claims and issues in advertising. This will be key for the air travel, energy and automotive sectors. The focus is on carbon neutral and net zeros adverts, as they are the most commonly encountered claims.
Learn about certain provisions of Quebec's privacy protection act which come into force September 22, 2022 and a chcklist for organizations to prepare for compliance on governance, breach response, and with commercial transactions.
Overview of perfection and priority of security interests in Canada.
While the position “I paid for it, I own it” may appear attractive at first— indeed, it attempts to satisfy a basic, universal desire to get what we paid for—analyzing the repercussions of this position makes it far less satisfying.
This article summarizes the legislative framework for the protection of personally identifiable information (PII).
The Legal Operations Maturity Model is being provided in an excel format for our members convenience.
This Top Ten addreses organisations looking to take up cyber insurance as part of a broader cyber security strategy, and some key issues for in-house lawyers to bear in mind.
With the pace of business today and the increasing need for efficiency and cost effectiveness in all corporate endeavors, it is not enough that the legal function merely coordinate its activities with the business. To productively provide the level of service a corporation or business unit requires, the legal function must be totally synchronized with business goals and activities.
Learn to better supervise the use of resources in patent studies, litigation and prosecution.
March 2008- Tolls & Solutions for Doing Your Job Better
This is a sample software license agreement.
Digital health and other companies that maintain reproductive health-related personal and health information need to consider the potential implications of the US Supreme Court's Dobbs decision overturning the right to an abortion. If your company has digital health platforms, including fertility trackers and period trackers, this checklist will help you to make sure you have considered the relevant issues.
This is a checklist of regulatory sources of training requirements for registered broker dealers.
The #MeToo Movement has completely altered the landscape for a host of venues, notably the workplace. Here are five concise strategies for in-house counsel to employ when enhancing their organization’s office culture.
With organisations increasingly relying on AI technology, UK and EU regulators are turning their attention to effective regulation of AI in an effort to recognise its benefits while instilling confidence in individuals that the increasing use of AI is being deployed appropriately and lawfully. In the EU, the European Commission’s AI Act (“Act”) proposal has undergone further changes following review by EU member states. The Council of the EU approved a compromise version of the Act on 6 December 2022. The European Parliament is expected to vote on the draft by the end of March 2023, with a view to adopting the Act by the end of 2023.
This article discusses the European Commission's adopting the first set of EU Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS). The ESRS are mandatory common standards by which in-scope companies must report comparable, consistent and detailed information across environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues.
Written Submission of the American Corporate Counsel Association to the ABA Task Force on Corporate Responsibility
(The"Cheek Commission?), November 11, 2002.
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