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From Ontario to Dallas, ACC highlights the recent events from chapters across the globe.

This CLO Perspective highlights some of the technology, tools and practices Christopher Barnard, General Counsel for Coca-Cola Europe, implements within his virtual legal team to help them stay connected, and provides insights on how the team uses technology to provide productive and efficient legal services for their corporate client.

This resource covers how to create and enforce effective document retention policies, especially for organizations in the health-care industry.

Representing 1,104 CLOs and general counsel from 36 countries, the ACC Chief Legal Officers 2013 Survey provides an unbiased and in-depth analysis of the highest ranking lawyers in corporate legal departments—reviewing their top concerns for the past 12 months, today, and into the future, and a prioritization of their business issues.

An introduction to the Model Contract Clauses developed by the members of the Working Group to Draft Model Contract Clauses to Protect Human Rights in International Supply Chains, American Bar Association Section of Business Law.

Learn about issues that repeatedly come up in Occupational Health and Safety-related (OHS) criminal matters, and the importance of early engagement during the investigation.

This article discusses the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel's memorandum explaining that noncompete agreements in employment contracts and severance agreements violate the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) except in limited circumstances.

Learn about and read takeaways from the United States' NLRB ruling in February 2023 that broad confidentiality and non-disparagement provisions, or provisions that require employees to waive rights under the National Labor Relations Act, may not be included in severance agreements.

This issue covers corporate subsidiary governance, litigation privilege, and partial pension wind-ups.

This InfoPAK (now known as ACC Guides) provides a high level overview of the lending mark, forms of security over assets, special purpose vehicles in secured lending, quasi-security, negative pledge, guarantees and loan agreements in Scotland.

This InfoPAK (now known as ACC Guides) provides a Q&A which gives a high level overview of the key practical issues including the level of activity and recent trends in the United States market.

Loan covenants, mergers and acquisitions, and raising capital for health care providers and other entities may be impacted by new restrictions as a result of the US Supreme Court's Dobbs decision. This checklist can help you determine the impact of those potential restrictions.

Poland's Ministry of Family and Social Policy published a new draft of the Whistleblowers Act on 12 April 2022. Learn about the key changes, including a new definition of whistleblower, anonymous submissions, internal notifications, data protection, criminal penalties, and more.

Canada's Bill C-27 updates Canada's federal private sector privacy law (PIPEDA), and re-works the Digital Charter Implementation Act (C-11). This article summarizes details of the new bill and highlights and compares certain provisions with C-11.

Following the recent Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization companies have considered giving assistance in accessing abortion services. This resource highlights some legal considerations for employers as they decide whether and how to provide these benefits.

Learn about the United Arab Emirates' Federal Decree Law No. 33 of 2021 on Regulation of Labour Relations, which introduced changes regarding unlimited term contracts, leave entitlements, end of service gratuity, restrictive covenants, and notice provisions.

The last time one of your employees left you for greener pastures, you couldn't say enough wonderful things about her to potential new employers. But this time is different. Where is the line drawn between giving an honest evaluation of an employee and defamation of character? Discover what you can say about employees (and to whom) without landing yourself in hot water.

Highly dispute-savvy companies have mean internal legal department budgets that are 40 percent lower than the least dispute-savvy companies, according to a landmark 2003 study by the American Arbitration Association. New research reveals that dispute-savvy companies focus on maximizing business performance, preserving relationships with customers, employees, business partners, and suppliers, and preventing—or at least minimizing—disputes and their impact. Learn what leading practices they use in this article.

This article lists the nine unique challenges that may arise post-closing after a U.S.-based entity acquires a business operating outside the United States.

This is a sample purchase agreement between a company and vendor.

Reengineering the Legal Function, by Mike Roster

This is a sample contract between an advertising agency and advertiser.

This session will enable in-house counsel to effectively respond to the need for a large-scale contracts remediation effort. This need may arise as a result of a regulatory enforcement action, such as after a US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violation has occurred, or after a change in regulation, such as when the EU declared the Safe Harbor framework to be invalid. While these efforts tend to be reactive in nature, panelists will pinpoint best practices for proactively identifying all business relationships and collecting and warehousing the associated documentation so that the company will be prepared to respond if needed. Panelists will present case studies of remediation projects, whether undertaken expeditiously under the watchful gaze of a monitor or over time in response to a change in regulation, or after the merger or divestiture of a key supplier.

This article considers how the duty of good faith impacts on the on-going relationship between franchisor and franchisee in the civil and common law traditions.

This issue contains articles on outsourcing, developments in merger remedies, and the communication of personal information on clientele outside Canada.

What doesn’t kill your review team will make them stronger. Stop relying on document search technology and temporary agencies and take back control of ediscovery. Not only will this eight-step process reduce your costs, but as your review team becomes better informed your litigation strategy will become more effective too.

This issue of Canadian Briefings includes: Can an Enterprise Communicate Personal Information on Clientele Outside Canada? by Cristine Carron and Kateri-Anne Grenier; A Perspective on Outsourcing by Richard Pearse; Recent Developments in Canadian Merger Remedies: Expediency Means, and Ends by Dany Assaf and Sarah McLean.

A brief overview of organizations' obligations to protect personal data in whistleblowing processes, after the European Directive 2019/1937 (Whistleblowing Directive) came into force on December 17, 2021.