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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").

This Top Ten relates to questions the leadership of organizations should ask when beginning nonprofit merger discussions.

Hints on how to have clear legal sight if you, as an executive officer, might face liability, and how to prepare yourself to avoid or handle the different liability issues an executive officer might face.

If you have not yet become acquainted with predictive coding, there is no shortage of articles and blogs available to get you caught up to date. To help get your bearings in the brave new world of predictive coding, this article covers ten important predictive coding concepts.

Learn ten tips for in-house counsel to help business teams use open source software while managing risks associated with the use of such code.

There are many actions that the other party may take during a negotiation that, whether inadvertent or intentional, can help delay or derail the process if you don't respond properly. Here is a second set of ten such scenarios, followed by some brief summary comments regarding how you may wish to respond in each instance.

The purpose of this top ten is to serve as a checklist of issues you may want to bring up to management and other employees, to fresh up their understanding of the antitrust regulations and avoid costly mistakes in Colombia.

This article with its sample delegation of authority (DOA) form will assist in-house counsel who are struggling with issues related to signing authority, staff approval limits, and information passing.