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Congratulations, you have been offered a fantastic new career opportunity. Now it’s time for you to decide whether to make the vertical leap to a leadership role in an in-house legal department. Here’s what you need to consider.

Are you trying to make the move in-house? After all, the title of general counsel is certainly a coveted position in corporate America. This article addresses both the legal and non-legal skills you will need to excel in this new role, as well as an overview of the selection and hiring process. Prepare now or risk missing your invite to the big dance.

Patent troll lawsuits can be costly and time-consuming. The stakes are especially high for small start-up companies, which are the primary targets of patent trolls. Fear not – help is on the way. This article explores the challenges in the current patent system and evaluates the proposed remedies.

511 - Use of Nonlegal Managers to Perform Legal Functions

This guide covers common issues in franchise laws and regulations across 19 jurisdictions. Topics covered include competition law, real estate, and protecting the brand.

This is an excerpt from a corporate annual meeting.

Corporate diversity advocates highlight the ways in which they have created, implemented and enforced diversity initiatives within their own ranks and with outside service providers.

This resource is an overview on cartel regulations in Austria.

This InfoPAK (now known as ACC Guides) gives a succinct overview of arbitration, recent trends, arbitration agreements, legislative framework, and procedure in the United States.

This QuickCounsel focuses on the recent California Transparency in Supply Chains Act and Executive Order, and compliance issues with respect to each.

This article provides a brief overview of Canadian employment and labor law.

People around the world continue to grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic, the most extreme public health emergency in a century. This Top Ten discusses the public health law framework in the United States and summarizes some recent developments in the law arising from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Once it is determined how liability needs to be limited in a contractual agreement, an attorney should take careful steps to ensure the limited liability provision is actually enforceable. This article discusses ten ways that your drafting of limitation of liability provisions may be ineffectual and unenforceable.

Learn about technology escrow agreements in the event that your software developer goes broke or otherwise refuses to support the software.

In the employer–employee relationship, the most advantageous position for an employer in terms of determining duties and obligations occurs when an employee first comes on board and when an employee leaves. Employers should think of initial negotiations as a prenuptial agreement with a new hire, and explain that amendments may occur as technology develops. This article considers what this agreement should look like and examines the legal department’s ongoing challenge of determining which laws govern advances in technology.

The Stark Law has promulgated complicated regulations for transactions involving payments to physicians. All facets of the healthcare industry also face on a daily basis the shadow of government prosecutors focused on violations of the federal anti-kickback statute. These laws involve both criminal prosecution and civil liability, and in-house attorneys have at times been prosecuted as individual defendants. Enforcement is expanding to cover individual physicians as prescribers of company products and providers of services to companies, such as consulting and clinical investigator services, and to physician ownership of medical device distributors. Looming over healthcare companies and individuals is the potential to be debarred from participation in Medicare, Medicaid & other federal health care programs. In addition, in-house counsel need to be aware of obscure state laws on the issues of physician self-referral prohibition and anti-kickbacks. This program will discuss the government’s new enforcement trend and mechanisms that in-house counsel can employ to reduce these risks.

This is a same voluntary code of conduct for mobile app short notices developed through the Multi-Stakeholder Process on Application Transparency convened by the United States Department of Commerce.

Given the current level of uncertainty in the legal profession, it would be prudent to proactively consider potential future career paths. Whether you would like to remain in-house, move to an outside firm or even open your own practice, you should weigh the pros and cons of each before choosing a path you may regret later.

John P. Frantz, vice president and associate general counsel at Verizon, discusses how his role as chair of the company’s pro bono program is one of the most rewarding aspects of his job.

The survey reports Chief Legal Officers focused on performance and effectiveness in an increasingly demanding corporate environment. Includes hiring patterns, relationships with outside counsel, company revenues, and other information about surveyed companies.

This article addresses how globally, the hedge fund industry is impacted by countless reforms; including European short selling bans, global derivatives reform and shadow-banking.

This is a sample bill of sale regarding used equipment.

This is a sample code of conduct and conflicts of interest policy.

The "STARR" framework involves coordination between client and law firm to achieve better value in complex litigation. This Value Practice resource gives details.