This article analyzes how a copyright infringement may occur in Tanzania, the remedies available for copyright infringement and the legal penalties incurred if the Copyright Act is violated.
Learn five steps to reduce cyber risks during the crisis resulting from Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Many foreign companies wish to conduct business in Qatar without establishing a presence of their own in the country. This article is a quick overview on what to be aware of when entering the Qatar market via a commercial agent.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission on March 6, 2024 adopted final rules requiring registrants to disclose certain climate-related information in registration statements and annual reports.
This high-level summary from Latham & Watkins outlines the disclosures required by the final rules, the key differences from the proposed rules, and new compliance dates.
This article summarizes the requirements of the ordinance the Chicago City Council passed in May 2022, that imposes new anti-sexual harassment requirements for employers located in Chicago. The new requirements went into effect on July 1, 2022.
Learn about the United Kingdom’s National Security and Investment Act 2021, which allows the UK government to screen a wide variety of transactions for national security purposes.
Learn the consequences and obligations for both the French company and the foreign company and its employees when performance of certain services is subcontracted to a foreign company under a subcontracting agreement.
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 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.
Many of us deal with compliance related to local governments and the politics that go along with it. Whether in connection with simple zoning and land use issues, massive public–private partnership deals or regional development agencies, a general counsel who ignores the impact of the local political environment does so at their company's peril. Knowledge of the law is one thing; being able to navigate the political waters is an entirely different one. In a mock public-hearing format using headlines and video from recent media, a diverse panel will conduct a highly interactive session to demonstrate the pitfalls of working with local government and offer practical solutions.
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.
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 comprehensive tutorial and guide on copyleft and the GNU general public license.
According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, staffing firms added more than 786,000 jobs to their payrolls from June 2009 to July 2012. There are many reasons for the growth of this particular industry. Temporary help services provide flexibility and a way to avoid overstaffing. Learn the legal ins and outs of hiring temporary workers.
Government contractors have been increasingly met with scrutiny, particularly since ex- government officials often go to work in that sector. Several legislative and regulatory initiatives have been implemented in order to prevent conflicts of interest on the part of government contractors. Given the current climate, it is more important than ever for those seeking a bid to identify, address and mitigate these “conflict of interest” issues.
Many products — from lipsticks to mobile phones — either cross- license patents or incorporate industry standards. Patent pools and standard-setting organizations differ in fundamental ways. Get an overview of both, and learn about some of the litigation trends in these areas.
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