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This InfoPAK provides an overview of recent developments in the patent litigation landscape.

Reentry into the workforce can be difficult for women who have taken extended leave from their legal careers. The OnRamp Fellowship eases this transition through its unique reentry platform.

As governments around the world enact and enforce ever stricter anticorruption laws, the need to effectively manage sales intermediary corruption risks has become more important than ever.

This short article summarizes ten key areas where in-house counsel may consider the use of data analytics either as a solely in-house measure or in connection with engagements with outside counsel.

This guide is the 2013 edition from Austria-based law firm Wolf Theiss. This guide is meant as a practical guide to renewable energy legislation throughout Europe.

Cybersecurity touches every aspect of consumer and corporate culture. Preventing, preparing for, and responding to data breaches in real time is a chief concern for individuals, corporate leaders, and government regulators. Download the 2018 ACC Foundation: the State of Cybersecurity Report, underwritten by Ballard Spahr LLP, and learn what more than 600 corporate counsel say about their cybersecurity experiences, role, and practices. The full report includes common preventative tactics, lessons learned from those who have experienced a breach (including how the breach occurred and who was affected), and more.

Regardless of whether you are new to the practice or just new to an in-house role, this article provides a general overview of the practice of United States (US) securities law from a public company in-house counsel perspective. It encourages in-house counsel to expand their knowledge of the federal securities laws and the areas that are integral to the practice – including governance and compliance.

This survey addresses issues including staffing, departmental organization, hiring plans, cost accounting, expectations for the coming year, changes to the role of the CLO, managing outside counsel, and firm demographics. Additionally, the survey focused on the relationship of the CLOs and GCs with outside counsel through questions that explored alternative fee arrangements and challenges brought with the economic downturn.

This is a Forbes article addressing how crowdfunding has changed real estate investing.

This article identifies the complexities and potential pitfalls of the relationship between in-house and outside counsel in litigation and suggests strategies that in-house counsel can use to manage the in-house/outside counsel relationship effectively and accomplish the corporation's goal of successful dispute resolution. This article also includes a handy checklist.

Recently, US Justice Sonia Sotomayor, on behalf of a unanimous Supreme Court, held that funds contained within inherited IRAs are not “retirement funds” — a ruling, known as the Clark decision, that notably alters the landscape of inherited IRAs under the Bankruptcy Code. What will the world of bankruptcy, inherited IRAs and estate planning look like post-Clark?

This InfoPAK provides essential legal and practical advice about cloud computing and its increasing use in the health care industry. It explores in depth the primary legal risks associated with hosting and accessing clinical data in the cloud computing environment, including the privacy and security issues associated with the use of cloud technology. Also included in this InfoPAK is a comprehensive discussion of cloud computing contracting issues, strategies for successfully negotiating cloud agreements, and sample contract provisions for “best practice” solutions. This InfoPAK also provides valuable checklists and tools to guide health care organizations in negotiating cloud computing agreements.

Ethics codes that comply with Sarbanes-Oxley must offer anonymous whistleblowing; yet such anonymous hotlines and mandatory reporting rules are anathema to many Europeans — especially to those in Germany and France — because reporting via anonymous hotlines smacks of Nazi and
Soviet-style authoritarianism. Multinational companies are caught in the middle of this culture clash. Learn how such companies can successfully meet the competing demands of the laws on both sides of the pond.

This edition of the Canadian Briefings contains: an in depth look into how the legal department at the Royal Bank of Canada handles internal investigations, a review on Canada's new two stage merger review process, a look at privacy laws and regulations around the globe and a Canadian Roundup with a focus on the concept of service.

In order for in-house counsel not to find themselves the subject of the next audit committee inquiry at their company, it is vital that they know how to properly investigate and pursue internal allegations of such "white collar" crimes as fraud, theft, and corporate malfeasance. The fact that the allegation is never the only focus of a possible audit­ means how your legal department responded to the claim should be enough to get you to read the steps in handling such cases outlined here.

United Airlines Business Code of Conduct. Includes policies on ethics, work environment, customer relations, business partnerships, conflicts of interest, and company assets.

Does your external counsel ever come across as disconnected? Many law firms desire a deeper understanding of their clients' business operations, structure and ways of working. Many businesses, in turn, wish that their external counsel had a clearer appreciation for the issues impacting their operations, were up to speed with their current business activities and initiatives, and were more closely attuned to their corporate culture. Introducing a secondment program is a great way to achieve many of these goals.

Legal Research training specifically designed for in-house counsel - presentation held in Sydney on 6 May 2015.

Listed entities should familiarise themselves with the recent changes ASX has made to Listing Rules and Guidance Notes, particularly in relation to disclosure and capital raising.

This resource contains a list of useful benchmarking resources as it pertains to the 2012 ACC Annual Meeting Session 1105.

This is a sample LLC operating agreement between members of a Virginia Limited Liability Company (LLC).

Too much email? The sheer volume is a distraction. Below is a system to reduce the volume of email received, triage the remainder, and eliminate much of the unnecessary waste associated with a full inbox. It is a system, not magic. It will require some effort. But it will be worth it. The system has two components. Though they are complements, either alone should prove useful in improving your Outlook.

This article examines the subpoena power of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and provides guidance for employers who receive subpoenas from these agencies. It also looks at how contractors should respond to requests for information from the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP).

This article explores how in-house counsel, and particularly those in small and medium businesses, can help bridge the gap between the server room and the boardroom to create a well-structured cybersecurity program that empowers management with the information they need to better assess and prioritize their organization’s cybersecurity spending.

In case you haven’t heard, diversity and inclusion are essential to corporate legal teams. How to go about building such a team, however, may not be quite as obvious. From interns to sponsorships, this article provides an effective strategy for growing diversity and inclusion in your law department.

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.

This presentation covers boilerplate pitfalls and other common contracting challenges; also learn how a legal department can become a better facilitator in the contracting process within your organization.