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In the corporate setting, individual actions aren’t limited to individual consequences. The unscrupulous decisions of a few can lead to hefty fines for the whole organization.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become an even hotter topic since the introduction of generative AI tools like ChatGPT, a chatbot developed by OpenAI, as well as tools like Copilot and OpenAI Codex, which use generative AI to write computer code. This resource from Womble Bond Dickinson discusses the best practices in using Artificial Intelligence to generate code. 

This is a due diligence request list, in order to obtain IP-related information from a seller, in the context of an acquisition.

Everyone in the legal profession at one time or another experiences setbacks and frustrations, but how can attorneys know when it is time to seriously consider alternative roles or interests? Is it possible to make changes without seeking new employment, or has the time come to move on? Read this article to find out more.

This is a non-disclosure agreement between two companies, one based in Delaware.

This guide provides corporate counsel and international practitioners with comprehensive jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction guidance to product liability laws and regulation.

This article summarises the legislative framework for the protection of personally<br />identifiable information (PII).

This is a global guide to anti-corruption legislation.

This article focuses on the end goal of implementing alternative fee arrangements ("AFAs"). Statistics show that more and more firms and in-house counsel are moving their work to some type of AFA, but yet not all of them have a firm understanding as to what they're trying to achieve. This article addresses three basic, attainable, targets that general counsel and law firm leaders alike should keep in mind as they implement and improve their AFAs: (1) reducing the client's total legal costs by a significant amount, (2) providing near-complete predictability in cost and process, and (3) significantly improving outcomes.

<p/>This ACC Value Challenge resource is part 1 of a 3 part series. To view the other resources in this series, please click here:</p>
<p class=><a id=CP___PAGEID=1365193| href=/legalresources/resource.cfm?show=1365193>ACC Value Challenge: Facing Up to the Challenge - Law Firm Metrics (Part 2)</a></p><p class=><a id=CP___PAGEID =1365213| href=/legalresources/resource.cfm?show=1365213>ACC Value Challenge: Facing Up to the Challenge - The Transition (Part 3)</a></p>

This report is based on interviews with 100 finance directors, investment decision-makers and financial controllers in Europe’s largest life insurers. These firms represent 19% of the total European life insurance market. The research sample in this report includes leaders from the major markets of the UK, France, Germany and Italy, as well as some of the largest players from Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland. Interviews were conducted in July 2013.

This note contains a brief commentary on some of the main legal terms in international debt issues of or guaranteed by Ukraine. The objective is to analyse the degree to which these bonds are consistent with practice in the international capital markets and to weigh up the balance between the sovereign debtor and the bondholder creditors in terms of the rights and protections granted by the terms of the bonds. The main conclusion is that the bond issue legal terms seek to enhance stability for both Ukraine and the bondholders if there is a crisis.

An overview of settling environmental cases.

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) proposed climate disclosure rule, approved by a 3–1 vote on March 21, 2022, is the agency’s most significant regulatory undertaking in more than a decade. In this resource, learn more about how the decision can impact all domestic registrants and foreign private issuers.

This excerpt from the chapter on corporate governance in the book Successful Partnering Between Inside and Outside Counsel focuses on the business judgment rule.

This guide provides corporate counsel and international practitioners with jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction guidance to environment and climate change laws and regulations around the world.

Issue covered include environmental policy and its enforcement, environmental permits, waste, and liabilities.

An appeal may not always be the best course of action. And since your CEO may not understand that an appeal, with the financial burden it can impose and its lengthy process, involves much more than just a second chance to win the case, it is your job to explain it. Find out about the technical details of filing an appeal, decide when your company should pursue one, and when it should settle for the initial judgment.

Getting the Deal Through is delighted to publish the ninth edition of Arbitration, a volume in our series of annual reports, which provide international analysis in key areas of law and policy for corporate counsel, cross-border legal practitioners and business people.

Real estate transactions in Mexico are complicated. Foreigners are prohibited from purchasing real estate in certain areas, while in other areas agrarian rights can affect the purchasers title to real estate. This program will discuss in detail the how legal transactions are processed in Mexico.

Electronic commerce is rapidly changing the way companies do business. To be an effective counselor in the transition, you need to understand the company’s business, know and use the jargon, and share the corporation’s long-term vision.

This is a sample litigation hold policy regarding worker's compensation.

It is past time to recognize the primary root cause of corruption — a failure of top leadership