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Learn about potential hazards and opportunities for borrowers and lenders with regard to ESG.

Learn about the latest developments in greenwash claims and challenges in enforcement in the United Kingdom.

Learn about requirements of new bill (SB 1162) in California on reporting of pay.

Learn about Personal Data Protections Law in coming into force in February 2023.

This checklist will help you examined all the non-benefits considerations for the workplace in a Post-Roe world.

Learn about New Zealand's Personal Data Protection Law, ratified in October 2022.

Learn about the state of data transfer laws and regulations in China and takeaways on developing trends.

Learn about post-Covid privacy issues and takeaways for employers in recent Canadian court cases.

Learn about key trends and considerations around ESG policies in business supply chains.

Learn about the importance of liquidators in Hong Kong and recent increased scrutiny of them in their courts.

Learn about Nigeria's legal treatment of employees who resign in anticipation of disciplinary proceedings.

Chinese people can be very indirect in expressing what they want. When you offer your Chinese guests tea, it is not unusual that they say no in the first instance and agree to have some when you ask them the second time.

This guide is part of the Lex Mundi Guides to Doing Business series which provides general information about legal and business infrastructures in jurisdictions around the world.

This paper is intended to provide a broad overview of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“ACA”) as it applies to employers that sponsor health plans. This outline does not address all the applicable aspects and nuances of ACA as it applies to employer-sponsored health plans, as thousands of pages of applicable guidance have been issued on this topic over the past several years. Rather, its purpose is to introduce employers to some of the key provisions of health care reform that impact employer-sponsored health plans. As you review the materials herein, please remember that the application of the rules described is highly fact specific and this paper is not intended to provide legal advice or a legal opinion.

This is a sample software license agreement.

In the current climate with Russia invading Ukraine, U.S. and international policymakers enacted numerous sanctions that raise many questions. Knowing the typical course of these sanctions in past scenarios helps to triage new risk assessment and update internal controls. This is a “Top Ten” list of considerations.

Learn about recent laws and regulations in China on the use of data and protection of cross-border data transfers.

Learn about the developments around the EU-US Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework announced March 2022.

Learn about Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) and related copyright issues.

Learn about a 2022 Supreme Court decision that curtails discovery significantly in international arbitration cases.

Learn about changes that the ONCA has on not-for-profits since it came in effect in October 2021.

Our roles within our companies offer us a unique view of the business, as well as the outside and internal forces that influence it. As in-house counsel, we like challenges and thrive on finding solutions that push our organizations forward.

In 2012, China's State Administration of Foreign Exchange promulgated the Circular on Further Improving and Adjusting Foreign Exchange Administrative Policies on Foreign Direct Investment (Circular No. 59). It replaces more than 30 approval requirements with simpler registration procedures, streamlines many administrative procedures for foreign exchange transactions and relaxes some restrictions on funds used for foreign direct investment (FDI). The changes resulting from it are reviewed in this article. <br />

The new Data Protection Law, DIFC No. 5 of 2020 (the "DP Law"), became effective 1 July 2020 and replaces DIFC Law No.1 of 2007. Businesses caught by the legislation have a grace period of three months to bring their organisations into compliance with the new requirements.
The new DP Law has been aligned with data protection regimes elsewhere in the world such as the European GDPR and the California Consumer Privacy Act. Adoption of international data privacy concepts means we're hopeful that such reform will see other territories recognising the DIFC as providing sufficient regulatory protection to allow data transfers in and out of the DIFC with relative ease.

If you join a company that doesn't meet your expectations, should you jump ship or face the music and dance? In his newest column that's inspired by a friend's true story of a poorly planned cruise, James A. Nortz recommends that you pick the latter.

Statistically driven and data intensive, Six Sigma has emerged as the latest and hottest quality initiative within corporate America. Learn how you can apply this strategy for increasing client satisfaction and reducing costs within your legal department.