Highly dispute-savvy companies have mean internal legal department budgets that are 40 percent lower than the least dispute-savvy companies, according to a landmark 2003 study by the American Arbitration Association. New research reveals that dispute-savvy companies focus on maximizing business performance, preserving relationships with customers, employees, business partners, and suppliers, and preventing—or at least minimizing—disputes and their impact. Learn what leading practices they use in this article.
This is a sample purchase agreement between a company and vendor.
Reengineering the Legal Function, by Mike Roster
This is a sample contract between an advertising agency and advertiser.
This session will enable in-house counsel to effectively respond to the need for a large-scale contracts remediation effort. This need may arise as a result of a regulatory enforcement action, such as after a US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violation has occurred, or after a change in regulation, such as when the EU declared the Safe Harbor framework to be invalid. While these efforts tend to be reactive in nature, panelists will pinpoint best practices for proactively identifying all business relationships and collecting and warehousing the associated documentation so that the company will be prepared to respond if needed. Panelists will present case studies of remediation projects, whether undertaken expeditiously under the watchful gaze of a monitor or over time in response to a change in regulation, or after the merger or divestiture of a key supplier.
This article considers how the duty of good faith impacts on the on-going relationship between franchisor and franchisee in the civil and common law traditions.
Your company has announced a merger. Most counsel will immediately start to assemble their factual and economic evidence and develop their best arguments to present to the agencies. Yet, equally important is developing a strong working relationship with agency staff. Here are some practical tips on how you can better communicate with agency staff in order to increase the chances that your company's deal will ultimately be approved.
Today, IP plays a crucial role in the sale or purchase of companies in almost every conceivable industry. This article will tell you how to assess the IP aspects of a proposed transaction, conduct and complete due diligence to the extent it affects intellectual property and draft the provisions of the purchase agreement relating to the transfer of intellectual property rights.
Reviews the reasons for compliance, considerations impacting placement of the compliance function, and varying approaches to creating a program. Then discusses the critical importance of measuring your program's effectiveness, and explores some tools to measure effectiveness and to tailor that measurement process for particular companies and stages of compliance.
This guide provides an overview of legal issues, rules, and developments regarding employment and labor across a range of jurisdictions.
This is a sample policy for offsite records storage cost reduction strategies.
It has become increasingly easy for both small and large organizations to open up international business channels and source business operations worldwide. One area of increasing influence is the Middle East, particularly in the Gulf region. While those opportunities can prove to be beneficial to companies seeking to broaden global markets, they can also open the doors to predatory or other unscrupulous business practices orchestrated by scammers, creating legal headaches and wreaking havoc for those companies down the road.
This article provides a holistic overview of the need to create and register trademarks in the Greater China region. It also poses questions that should be considered before developing the trademarks, as well as exploring the various linguistic considerations that should be taken into account, due to the numerous oral dialects used through China.
Sample agreement between a common carrier and a contractor, for the supply by the contractor of motor vehicle equipment and personnel (drivers) that the carrier will utilize in the delivery of transportation services (agreement governed by the laws of the State of Alabama).
ESG considerations can play a key role in the restructurings of distressed businesses. This article examines what should be the ESG playbook for companies or insolvency practitioners implementing a restructuring.
The UAE issued new legislation to regulate the collection and processing of personal data in the country. In this article, learn the implications of this important development, which will be the first comprehensive federal data privacy law in the UAE.
This article provides key considerations for telehealth providers in mapping out how to deliver care on a multi-state basis in light of the Dobbs decision and related state legislation.
Learn about the implications of the US Supreme Court's decision of June 30, 2002, in the case West Virginia v. EPA.
Learn about 2024 revisions to China's Law on Guarding State Secrets, which may create new compliance challenges for businesses operating in China.
This is a model employment offer letter.
As global economies recover from the credit crisis, lack of available funding is crippling major infrastructure initiatives, and financial advisors are searching for new sources of credit to get their projects off the ground. The Province of Ontario, however, may have found a solution to the problem: a pooled financing vehicle. This article demonstrates the success of local governments using such a model to fund new infrastructure development.
This guide provides a detailed summary about the different pre-merger notification procedures in each jurisdiction.
On February 9, 2022, Oman issued national privacy legislation with the publication of a new Personal Data Protection Law. This article outlines the scope and key requirements of the new law, and considers its impact on organizations operating in Oman.
Irish competition law is set to be revolutionised in the coming months by the enacted Competition (Amendment) Bill 2022. This article provides the top 20 headline points with respect of the new provisions that will change the Irish competition enforcement regime and the Irish merger control regime.
In the modern business world, the qualified electronic signature is already a solid and largely equivalent substitute for the handwritten signature. This resource is an overview of the types of electronic signatures, and their legal and procedural effects in France and Germany.
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires the audit committees of boards of public companies to establish procedures for the receipt and handling of whistleblower complaints regarding questionable accounting practices, including anonymous reports. This article explains the essential features of a compliant complaint procedure and offers a plan for guiding the audit committee through the implementation process.
During emergency events or routine spills, in-house counsel will need to understand the applicable reporting laws. Here's a practical checklist of key regulatory requirements to simplify reporting.
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