Although globalization offers tremendous promise, it also presents companies with many new challenges. Among them is the need to develop creative, efficient, and responsive functional models for the provision of legal services. Companies establishing operations beyond their home market must decide whether and how to create in-house legal teams to support the broad spectrum of legal needs in other countries. This article offers a glimpse into the myriad of issues that surround those decisions and outlines how some global company law departments have structured themselves in response.
Eighth edition of the Getting the Deal Through Anti-Corruption Regulation Guide, a volume that provides international analysis for corporate counsel, cross-border legal practitioners and business people.
The question and answer format of this article makes it an accessible, quick read for those looking to do business in Manitoba.
When it comes to ediscovery, small and medium businesses (SMBs) tend to be at a greater disadvantage than large enterprises. And the risks of poorly managing data are not to be taken lightly: reactive cost burdens, monetary penalties and even default judgments. Learn to develop programs and policies that are applicable to your organization, and that will flex as it evolves over time. After all, the key isn’t perfection, but rather uniformity and consistency achieved through organization.
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.
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.
This is a sample policy for offsite records storage cost reduction strategies.
As companies seek to unlock value from their strong brands by expanding into new geographies or product markets, these moves can be fraught with significant legal risks. Panelists will discuss the Kraft Foods Group Brands v. Cracker Barrel Old Country Store case, in which Cracker Barrel was preliminarily enjoined from expanding the reach of its brand to new product categories. Learn different techniques to safely accomplish brand expansion, including developing effective licensing, co-branding and merchandising programs that enhance brand equity, updating trademark clearance procedures, employing innovative trademark application procedures, creating international brand expansion policies and implementing trademark portfolio management strategies to establish an advantage in the global marketplace. Discover how your company can leverage its brands’ existing value while protecting itself from missteps that can shrink profitability, dilute brand value and erode hard-earned competitive advantage.
A strong and effective compliance program can be crucial to persuading the prosecutor that your company does not deserve prosecution. If your program is like most programs, the prosecutor is likely to treat it skeptically. Most compliance programs are designed to help prevent an attack, not to help defend the company when authorities raid the company. This article will show you how to strengthen your compliance program against that day.
The ACC Australia Trends Survey examines the practices, trends and changes in the in-house legal profession. ACC Australia has developed this report with the support of our Corporate Alliance Partners.
General Counsel Letter to Congress on LSC FY2019 Funding
This memorandum provides an overview of the legal and strategic issues that should be considered by a Company before it engages in an open market common stock repurchase program.
Discusses how in-house attorneys control litigation with outside counsel and avoid falling victim to surprise expenses while managing legal spending.
This article reviews changes to trademark laws around the world in 2021.
While a corporate legal department may not be the ideal environment to foster a balance between work and life is it even possible to achieve? Here, the authors look at the obstacles standing in the way of in-house counsel attempting to strike that balance in order to find out if work/life balance is in fact possible to find or if it is merely a myth.
This paper, written by the presenters of Annual Meeting Session 105 - Canada's Anti-Spam Law and How It Affects Your Business, discusses in detail, how to prepare your business for Canada's Anti-Spam Law "CASL".
Learn how to deal with adversity and negative feelings that can lead a person to question their self-worth.
711 Defining the Role of In-house Lawyers in Governance. Includes sample board evaluations, corporate governance guidelines, annual board meeting agendas, and more.
This session will focus on how to establish a small local or regional law office of a multinational company. Processes including organizing and structuring a department, policies and procedures, oversight, and contract management will be addressed.
China is operating increasingly on a cashless basis, with the Chinese government posed to launch a digital currency called Digital Currency Electronic Payment (DCEP or “digital yuan”). This article provides a holistic overview and answers several key questions pertaining to the DCEP.
For in-house legal departments, relationships with Outside Counsel are integral to overall management of matters and outcomes. A solid relationship creates synergy and partnership; a dysfunctional one creates frustration and typically increases costs. One of the most common tools to enhance client/firm relationships is setting effective Outside Counsel Guidelines (OCGs). Read this article written by Brenda Hansen, Sr. Legal Operations Consultant, Epiq Legal Business Advisory, for tips on drafting effective and impactful Outside Counsel Guidelines.
As businesses continue to expand their operations beyond the borders of the United States, the scope of the in-house attorney’s role also grows. Now more than ever, the business is looking to its corporate counsel to evaluate all of the issues that can come about as a result of global operations. This articles looks at how corporate law departments are stepping up to the challenge of managing the environmental, social, and liability risks involved in managing global expansion efforts.
General counsels operate best where business and legal intersect. With new technologies and regulations developing everyday, counsel needs to be aware and reactive to the ever-changing landscape. In this article, learn how to deal with new advances in technology that will keep you and your department ahead of any issues.
Discusses a modular approach to drafting contracts, listing and describing a set of modules or individual elements determined by analyzing different contracts and breaking them down into their component parts.
In Hong Kong, investors may carry on businesses through various types of business<br />vehicles, such as sole proprietors, partnerships or companies.
If your life is a whirlwind of business lunches, late hours, and airplane food, try letting a little calm into the storm. Consistent exercise will give you better health, and the focus you need.
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