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Many US states have adopted laws restricting an employer's ability to prohibit employees from possessing firearms. Employers should be aware of these top ten points when considering policies prohibiting their employees from possessing firearms during work time or on the employer's property.

This Top Ten outlines ten considerations regarding Europe's proposed general data protection regulation.

This Top Ten addreses organisations looking to take up cyber insurance as part of a broader cyber security strategy, and some key issues for in-house lawyers to bear in mind.

This Top Ten covers do's and don'ts to help anticipate and avoid situations where some clients might unintentionally create obstacles when negotiating and closing deals. These principles could be applied to any client, around the world.

This Quick Overview aims at highlighting the protection against such retroactivity, as granted by the European Court of Human Rights, especially regarding tax and criminal law matters.

This brief article lists ten tips that new to in-house attorneys can look to for guidance in their new positions in the United States and around the world.

This Top Ten reviews ten of the most common civil claims under United States securities law, including fraud and insider trading claims.

Many complex and large lawsuits end up in mediation. However, because of various characteristics of securities class actions, including the law and procedures that are applicable to securities claims and the way the insurance is generally structured, it is difficult to manage mediations of these cases. This article discusses some of these challenges.

This Top Ten shows practical advice for when it may be time for a legal department to invest in technology that allows its attorneys to serve their clients better, become more efficient, and save money.

This brief resource provides ten specific recommendations to be considered in addition to commercial terms and conditions when an international company is negotiating and executing contracts in Mexico.

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.

This short article summarizes some of the most common errors made by commercial landlords and their property managers in the United States when they find themselves dealing with a defaulting tenant.

This Top Ten outlines several of the issues that multinational employers should carefully consider when outsourcing in Mexico.

French Parliament advances draft law that would introduce legal professional privilege for in-house counsel.

Top ten tips on the best way to enter a new environment as the company's first in-house counsel.

As an emerging country, Brazil has many economic incentives to foster privacy rights policy on the Internet and following such vocation, the country approved Law No. 12,965, of April 23, 2014 (the "Marco Civil"), regulated by Decree No. 8,771, dated May 11, 2016 (the "Marco Civil Regulation").

This Top Ten provides 10 steps you can take to operationalise the GDPR in your organisation.

Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) is often caught in cross-functional turf wars. Consequently, many find that the system in place is not the hoped-for “silver bullet,” especially as unmet requirements surface across the organization. Moreover, the benefits documented in the CLM business case may always seem just beyond reach, especially as phased roll-outs stall amidst frustration and disappointment that what was pitched by the vendor turned out to be more difficult to actualize than it seemed.

This brief article presents the top ten reasons to update your corporate Intellectual Property and information strategy, especially if you practice within the United States, the European Union or in the United Kingdom.

These top ten considerations will help you build a "right-sized" metrics program for your small and lean legal department.

This Top Ten addresses rulemaking on important issues, such as uncleared swaps margin, automated trading, cybersecurity, reducing the de minimis swap dealer threshold, and data reporting.

IP practitioners do not view themselves as typically in the crosshairs of political and national security issues. But the Russian invasion of Ukraine offers many lessons learned from the perspective of how to prepare for any future sanctions or political pressure, and what to do if such actions are taken.

This brief resource outlines the top ten steps to operationalise the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Learn ten tips to respond and defend against non-practicing entities ("NPEs"). With no end to the current non-practicing entities practices visible in the immediate future, companies that are approached by NPEs should consider a variety of strategies regarding how to respond and defend against NPEs.

This short article presents significant changes in the regulation of Russian legal entities as part of the reform of Russia's Civil Code.

This Top Ten article discusses government enforcement-related updates impacting the health care industry in the United States.

This Top Ten will explain the most relevant aspects to be considered in order to access to public procurement opportunities, including the way to obtain information and some general guidelines and recommendations when submitting a bid for goods and services in Colombia.

This article brings the top ten tips to consider while engaging outsourcing services in Central America.

This Top Ten outlines the "do's" and "don'ts" for companies managing intellectual property assets in Mexico, and provides guidance on preventing infringement or misappropriation.

This Top Ten lists specific considerations employers should keep in mind in evaluating worksite conditions, along with proactive measures suggested by Occupational Safety and Health Administration ("OSHA").