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The legal departments of Levi Strauss & Co. and Pfizer Inc. have respectively implemented innovative programs with outside counsel to provide better value and results: Levi’s “global partnerships” and Pfizer’s “legal alliance.” Find the key elements and success stories of each department’s program.

With the pace of business today and the increasing need for efficiency and cost effectiveness in all corporate endeavors, it is not enough that the legal function merely coordinate its activities with the business. To productively provide the level of service a corporation or business unit requires, the legal function must be totally synchronized with business goals and activities.

Few pieces of data privacy legislation have been more hotly contested than the EU-US Privacy Shield. While the road ahead remains uncertain, in-house counsel should adopt protocol to ensure long-term solutions to data compliance.

For most corporate law departments, 2020 will be remembered as a year where everything was turned on its head. Law department leaders had previously helped guide their departments through recessions, sales shortfalls, and restructurings, but never a global pandemic. However, the after-effects of 2020 will likely contain as many positives as negatives; and, if department leaders are smart, it should act as a catalyst for accelerating the change agenda in 2021 and beyond.

Although it may be more commonplace now, Napoe admits that, at the time, a recent graduate immediately going in-house was “quite unusual.” For Napoe, however, who received her undergraduate degree in business, it made total sense. “I like a good challenge and I like a good problem to solve,” she says. “Being in-house, doing corporate law, it gives me an opportunity to combine the two.

Three elements work together to comprise an effective and successful software license transaction. You may not know them offhand but after reading this article, which details how certain information can raise potential licensing issues, you’ll glean a better understanding of the practical matters swirling around the process.

"the "Getting the Deal Through" reference guide for M&A professionals"

This article provides an overview of the option clauses in Shareholders Agreements regulated by Brazilian law and the instruments that can be used by the parties in order to assure the enforceability of said clauses.

Many jurisdictions in the Asia-Pacific region have enacted, or are in the process of enacting, comprehensive data privacy legislation. Learn how this may impact your business.

This multi-jurisdictional guide covers common issues in environmental, social and governance law.

Topics covered include principal sources of ESG pressure, integration of ESG into business operations, and the impact of COVID-19.

Use this material to convince your CEO that you need to implement an effective compliance program or revamp your current one.