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This guide provides an overview of the important issues involved in the financing of real estate projects, including such topics as the method for creating a security interest or lien on real property, interest rate limitations, and licensing requirements for lenders in each jurisdiction.

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

This article contains tips for becoming your own best career advocate.

Attendees will choose among a number of roundtable discussion topics, each involving a creative hypothetical situation highlighting compliance issues that affect their business or compliance teams. Following robust discussions, each table will publicly share interesting points that arose, including best practices for handling their pressing issues. Receive a post-conference comprehensive report of the roundtable discussion findings.

This resource from Latham & Watkins LLP provides insight into frequently asked questions regarding Amended Rule 10b4-1 and Insider Trading Disclosures. These include questions on Compliance Dates and Transition Issues, Cooling-Off Periods, Overlapping Plans, Affiliated Entities, and more.

This Wisdom of the Crowd, compiled from questions and responses posted on the IT, Privacy and eCommerce Forum, addresses under what conditions consequential damages in non-disclosure agreements should be disclaimed.

Since 2011, the US Securities and Exchange Commission has received over 18,000 whistleblower tips, with 4,200 occurring in 2016 alone. The evidence is undeniable: Agency whistleblower and bounty programs are here to stay, and legal departments should invest in effective internal compliance programs to keep reports within the company and out of the newspapers.

What legislation is applicable to insolvencies and reorganisations? What criteria are applied in your country to determine if a debtor is insolvent?

A recent National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruling that the men’s college basketball players at Dartmouth College were employees of the school, as well as other legal challenges to establish the employment status of college athletes, could upend the structure of college sports and have unintended immigration consequences for international athletes competing at U.S. schools.

This is a sample real estate purchase agreement.

What are the practical issues involved in protecting confidential information? To best protect your company you need to know trade secrets and confidential information laws. Don't forget that undisclosed information varies from state to state and country to country. Read this article to brush up on the law, but even go beyond it and take actual physical measures to protect your company's data.

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

What legislation is applicable to insolvencies and reorganisations? What criteria are applied in your country to determine if a debtor is insolvent?

What legislation is applicable to insolvencies and reorganisations? What criteria are applied in your country to determine if a debtor is insolvent?

While it may seem like second nature to in-house counsel, successfully negotiating the closure of a business transaction is an art form. It requires transparency, organization, and market awareness to understand how to approach negotiation in a way that effectively ensures a positive outcome for all parties involved. By understanding these factors, and how to navigate the risks associated with them, in-house counsel can efficiently close multiple transactions simultaneously to favorable returns.

The ACC-Smarter Law Solutions free benchmarking and consultation service (acc.com/smarterlaw) has proven to be a hit since its launch in 2019. While we are thrilled at the positive feedback we’ve received from our clients, we thought that it would be interesting to respond directly to a few widely held hesitancies expressed by those considering a basic benchmarking or performance improvement process. We gathered some of these questions and sent them to Smarter Law Solutions CEO, Trevor Faure for his candid counsel. We were particularly interested in his perspective on concerns about taking on a consultant agreement in these turbulent times for legal operations.

One of our latest features from ACC Docket's July/August issue.

While market research firms consistently predict spectacular growth in year-on-year spend on cloud-based technology, intellectual property issues in the cloud continue to be one of the "cloudiest" legal areas for customers and suppliers alike. In this alert the authors identify some of the possible IP hot spots (with a particular focus on UK copyright issues), and offer suggestions to mitigate risk in what is a very rapidly evolving area of law.

This Real Estate Purchase Contract form was tailored to the buyer’s expectations in acquiring additional property to expand his business. It marries the buyer’s request for a simplified document with the need to protect the buyer’s rights. The property was residential, but being acquired for subsequent commercial use.

This presentation talks about what to do before, during and after a product recall.

This is a list of reference materials for the session.

When a company starts a new project, the question of financing is an issue. In Germany, a new alternative to the traditional loan process is being tested.

For the first time, there are four generations spanning a six-decade age range in the workforce, and sociologists maintain that each generational cohort has been shaped by unique historical, social and cultural events, and as a result, each has distinct similarities in attitudes, values, expectations and work preferences. Learn what you can do to understand cross-generational work styles, and how you can effectively promote collaboration and growth.

This is a sample letter of agreement between a hotel and company.