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

Thanks to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, public companies face potential civil and criminal liability and new internal reporting obligations. Read this article to prepare your company to respond if a whistleblowing complaint comes in.

Social media can be a challenging environment for in-house counsel. In this article, in-house counsel can learn how information on social media platforms can be used ethically in their practice.

A discussion on subjects such as emissions, general guidelines for voluntary greenhouse gas reporting, proposed rules, and more.

This is a checklist for EU dawn raids.

Practical tips about "Dawn Raids"

This multi-jurisdictional guide explores an overview of key legal issues, rules and developments regarding business crime across a range of jurisdictions.

Topics covered include criminal law enforcement, corporate criminal liability, statutes of limitations, initiation of investigations, and procedures of gathering information – in 18 jurisdictions.

Panel discussion on the potential legal impact of an exit by one or more EU Member States and steps in-house counsel can take to future-proof legal documents.

Labor and employment laws in the United Kingdom are notoriously employee-friendly. Learn how to navigate the minefield of disciplining, and ultimately dismissing, UK employees.

This is a sample software database license agreement.

This resource is a detailed statement of corporate policies for social media usage.

Employers monitor off-site employees for numerous reasons—not simply to ensure productivity, but to protect trade secrets, avoid data breaches, track an employee’s physical location, and generally discourage or identify misconduct. Most recently, monitoring has been used for COVID-19-related contact tracing purposes. However, privacy-related legal pitfalls abound.

If the weather outside mimicked the economic outlook for corporate America, it would be overcast with periods of heavy rain. With a tough financial forecast, even tougher leadership decisions have to be made, and a layoff or reduction-in-force (RIF) may be the most feasible solution to save your bottom line. While there's no easy way to execute a RIF, this article gives insightful information to help make a layoff less painstaking and more profitable to your company.

The beginning of a shift toward a more regulatory and less litigation-oriented regime of antitrust enforcement was observable by the mid-1990s, if not earlier. The transition
toward this more bureaucratic approach by antitrust enforcement agencies is the subject of our analysis.

Learn about the European Directive 2014/95/EU on disclosure of non-financial and diversity information by certain large undertakings and groups.

In the midst of all of the corporate scandals that have erupted since the Enron bankruptcy filing last year and in light of the new requirements established by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, what do in-house counsel of public companies need to do both to protect their clients (the corporation, its officers, employees, and shareholders) and themselves? Read this article to get a better grasp of the scope of the problem and use the five-point compliance plan to help plan a solution.

While this paper highlights the shortfalls of Australia’s privacy law regime in light of the IoT, lawmakers should not impulsively and unnecessarily restrict these technologies.

With the advent of global privacy frameworks, and as companies collect and use more consumer data, additional importance is placed on review and compliance. The chief privacy officer is essential to addressing these priorities.

Learn how to implement comprehensive incident management program that reinforces an organization’s commitment to ethical business practices.

For over a decade, the legal field has been gradually incorporating electronic signatures into daily business operations. In-house counsel should learn the process so that implementation can be done with confidence.

By breaking down the details, in-house counsel can sensibly learn how “self-driving” cars are designed to work, and navigate future interactions with regulators and investors throughout the process.

“It’s alive!” says Dr. Frankenstein, as his monster creation opens its eyes. We all know the tale, but have you ever considered how it might impact in-house practice? Not just wearable, but implantable, computing devices may not be fantasy for long, and legal departments would be wise to consider the privacy and data protection policy that will keep employers safe as they venture into uncertainty.

The increased connectivity of people and things is creating previously unimaginable amounts of data. In this article, in-house counsel can learn how to avoid the ethical perils and pitfalls of big data.

The legal industry is changing and technology is a big part of that change. Learn more about technology in the legal profession and how learning a little can benefit your practice a lot.

The SEC is ready to tap its Investor Protection Fund — the IRS recently awarded $104 million to an ex-banker for providing information related to an international tax case. Companies and their counsel should take heed and encourage potential whistleblowers to report alleged wrongdoing internally. This requires establishing a culture of speaking up. Learn how to institute effective reporting mechanisms.