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In sports, failure to keep your eye on the ball can mean the difference between winning and losing. This expression captures the current predicament of the fantasy sports industry, an industry where bountiful venture capital funding and rapidly expanding revenue distracted from the legal complications descending on the industry and threatened to destroy it.

Currell on Convergence - Part 1 on Convergence: Why Practice Falls Short of Theory

AdvanceLaw, a network of buyers and suppliers of legal work that seek to drive value by sharing quality metrics and creating data-driven best practices, recently uncovered surprising results on the value of converging law firms. This resource combines 3 blog posts from Managing Director Dan Currell on preferred provider networks: 1) theory vs. practice; 2) how to build a law firm panel that can deliver value; and 3) the necessity of active client management.

This is a checklist of some best practices for implementing a diversity and inclusion program.

This InfoPak aims to assist in-house and outside counsel alike in counseling their clients toward selecting, achieving, and protecting strong brands.

This policy is intended to be short and easy to follow, to enable our decision makers (including technical, business, and legal managers) to leverage open source software while protecting our intellectual property assets and mitigating risk.

Cloud computing allows us to easily store data without physical storage devices, helping to reduce the carbon footprint. But environmental issues from cloud data centers makes this a mixed blessing.

In this article, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act is explained in the context of small businesses and non-profits. Resources are available to these sectors impacted by the current crisis.

Deutsches Institut für Compliance (DICO) guidelines provide the reader with practical and actionable recommendations on Compliance issues.

An overview of anti-corruption regulation in Liechtenstein.

Recent court decisions are causing major concerns for employers who require a general release to be signed by employees as a precondition to receiving payments under a severance plan or negotiated separation agreement. This article attempts to describe the background of employment-related waivers and explores the court decisions affecting them.

This is a sample corporate employee handbook for under 50 employees.

Cloud computing is an environment where a business outsources the development, hosting, or running of all or part of its applications and information to a third party, and away from the business’s hardware and premises. In this Top Ten, learn how to utilize this technology for your in-house contract needs.

This is a sample agreement between a hotel and company.

Recent regulations and future proposed changes likely will encourage in-house counsel to involve themselves in their client's financial affairs and to report improper conduct. In-house counsel need to consider corporate conduct and investigate misconduct. This article discusses the broad responsibilities of in-house counsel and provides an overview of the
post-Enron environment from the in-house perspective.

This Top Ten is intended to highlight the top ten considerations for performing IP due diligence in the United States.

No one can anticipate every bump in the road. If you take each crisis in stride, however, you can use the experience to prepare for the future. For instance, a career resilience plan can shorten recovery time and aid in transferring skill sets from one career path to another. Learn seven key components of any career resilience plan.

This session will focus on the legal and ethical aspects of integrating a newly acquired company, with a focus on how to do this within the resources of a small legal department. Many in-house practitioners in smaller departments use outside counsel for an acquisition, but receive little support once the deal is closed. Discover issues that need to be addressed in the first seven, 30, 60 and 180 days, such as developing a playbook for merger integration; human resources issues to address; state regulatory issues and issues involved in acquiring the new business’ contractual obligations. Also included will be a discussion of integrating a newly acquired foreign enterprise, including cultural minefields to consider and avoid.

Read about the Implications for in-house counsel of the US Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization in a selection of resources.

This Report provides an analysis of corruption within the EU’s Member States and of the steps taken to prevent and fight it. It aims to launch a debate involving the Commission, Member States, the European Parliament and other stakeholders, to assist the anti-corruption work and to identify ways in which the European dimension can help.

Getting the Deal Through is delighted to publish the ninth edition of Arbitration, a volume in our series of annual reports, which provide international analysis in key areas of law and policy for corporate counsel, cross-border legal practitioners and business people.

Getting the Deal Through is delighted to publish the ninth edition of Arbitration, a volume in our series of annual reports, which provide international analysis in key areas of law and policy for corporate counsel, cross-border legal practitioners and business people.