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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 guide provides corporate counsel and international practitioners with comprehensive jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction guidance to product liability laws and regulation.

Topics covered include causation, defenses and estoppel, procedure, time limits, remedies, and costs/funding.

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.

As companies seek to unlock value from their strong brands by expanding into new geographies or product markets, these moves can be fraught with significant legal risks. Panelists will discuss the Kraft Foods Group Brands v. Cracker Barrel Old Country Store case, in which Cracker Barrel was preliminarily enjoined from expanding the reach of its brand to new product categories. Learn different techniques to safely accomplish brand expansion, including developing effective licensing, co-branding and merchandising programs that enhance brand equity, updating trademark clearance procedures, employing innovative trademark application procedures, creating international brand expansion policies and implementing trademark portfolio management strategies to establish an advantage in the global marketplace. Discover how your company can leverage its brands’ existing value while protecting itself from missteps that can shrink profitability, dilute brand value and erode hard-earned competitive advantage.

510 - Welcome to Rookie Camp: 10 Things New In-house Lawyers Should Know

604 - Advanced Settlement Techniques & the Use of Mediation & Arbitration to Resolve Disputes

This statement is intended to alert financial institutions of specific risk mitigation related to cyber attacks compromising credentials.

Womble Bond Dickinson’s second annual analyzes the fast-evolving global data privacy law landscape and, for the first time, includes over 200 respondents from both the US and UK.

Some topics include the growing use of biometric data and artificial intelligence (AI), differences between operating in the US, the UK, Europe and more.

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.

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.

The US Federal Communications Commission recently adopted modified “open Internet” rules intended to protect the ability of consumers and content producers to send and receive legal information on the Internet, a concept also known as “network neutrality.” In order to strengthen its authority to adopt the rules, the FCC reclassified fixed broadband Internet access services under Title II of the Communications Act of 1934. This article explains which sections of Title II will and will not apply to broadband Internet access services.

A study of Legal Entity Management structures, governance best practices, and challenges based on survey responses from 467 organizations covering 20 industries and all global regions.

This is a sample employee handbook with state specific appendices.

This case law is Federal Trade Commission v. Toysmart.com, LLC.

This article discuses the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) finalized amendments to the Negative Option Rule, now retitled the “Rule Concerning Recurring Subscriptions and Other Negative Option Program.“

The rule represents a significant overhaul of the regulatory framework governing how companies handle subscription services and automatic renewals.

This is a template master marketing services agreement.