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With acute attention from the legal department, a company’s knowledge assets can grow to become one of its greatest strengths — instead of one of its greatest areas of risk.

This InfoPAK (now known as ACC Guides) provides a high-level overview on private acquisitions law and practice in Turkey.

Working with your marketing team to manage your company's brands - presentation held in Melbourne 18 July 2017.

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Electronic commerce is rapidly changing the way companies do business. To be an effective counselor in the transition, you need to understand the company’s business, know and use the jargon, and share the corporation’s long-term vision.

As regulations for cross border data transfer continue to evolve, businesses will need to be proactive to remain compliant with the latest requirements. Learn what conditions need to be satisfied to export personal data from China.

This social media policy concerns software for archiving, ediscovery, compliance and records management.

This ACC Foundation report explores the current landscape of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) within legal departments.

Learn the ins and outs of strategic planning and effective metrics development that will help you demonstrate your department’s successes; and Show your boss how you add value to the company’s bottom line and contribute to the mission and strategic goals of your organization.

This Quick Overview points to the importance of an employer understanding the difference between an employee and independent contractor in order to determine a company's tort liability in the United States.

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.

This article, developed by Latham & Watkins LLP, reviews how the SEC proposals track EU requirements in certain respects, but differences in content and scope could leave advisory firms with increasingly complex compliance challenges. Learn more about the ESG Disclosure Requirements proposed in this article.

As expected, 2021 saw continued emphasis on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues on a global scale, by governments, regulators, NGOs, the private sector, and other important stakeholders.

This third instalment of Latham’s annual 10 Things to Look Out For blog post highlights the ESG-related developments and trends that we expect to remain in the headlines in 2022.

Sample code of conduct for employees. Provides for accountability, loyalty, personal gain, blackmail, corruption, confidentiality, financial concerns, customer, vendors, competitors, partners, trading in shares, compliance office, and sanctions.

This guide provides corporate counsel and international practitioners with comprehensive jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction guidance to insurance and reinsurance laws and regulations around the world.

An appeal may not always be the best course of action. And since your CEO may not understand that an appeal, with the financial burden it can impose and its lengthy process, involves much more than just a second chance to win the case, it is your job to explain it. Find out about the technical details of filing an appeal, decide when your company should pursue one, and when it should settle for the initial judgment.

In this guide, authored by Lex Mundi contributors, the basic legislative and economic framework of Japan is explained.  Learn more about Japan's investment policies, trademarks, exchange controls, structures of business and more in this informative article.

Although nonprofits have continued to grow in size and sophistication, they are under constant pressure to increase transparency and justify their tax-exempt status. Instead of a threat, view this as an opportunity to define your organization to your stakeholders, resulting in better management and continued independence from excessive regulations.

The negotiation of good IP agreements can be particularly thorny since the negotiator often doesn't understand the underlying IP. This session will discuss best practices and include practical checklists for would-be IP agreement negotiators.

This article uses the experience of one law department to show how integration with the business teams--an active philosophy of being closer to the business--can replace the dreaded corporate staff moniker with status as an integral part of the operating business.

On August 29, 2022, the Hong Kong Competition Commission (“HKCC”) published an Advisory Bulletin regarding the sharing of competitively sensitive information on employees’ employment conditions (such as future wages) among employers in the context of “joint negotiations” (“Joint Negotiation Advisory Bulletin”). In the Joint Negotiation Advisory Bulletin the HKCC outlines a set of guidance on the circumstances under which the exchange of information on employment conditions among employers may be justified in the context of joint negotiations.