Bad news hits front pages and TV screens every week: Ever-larger data breaches affect millions of trusted companies' customers. The good news is the buyer’s market for cyber insurance; businesses can shop not only on the basis of price but for policy terms that cover actual risks. Traditional lines of coverage (including crime, property, general liability and directors and officers) can provide coverage when a breach occurs, although new exclusions are pushing more businesses toward specialty policies. In this evolving market, it’s essential to analyze existing coverage and terms offered in competing cyber policies. This session will spotlight key policy provisions to demand and others to avoid. The panelists will view cyber insurance in the risk management context, including prevention and post-breach planning. They will outline an approach to cyber security equally focused on human factors: building staff awareness and the right protocols.

Arbitration is notorious for consuming too much time and money, especially when multinational businesses are involved. Fortunately, there are ways to prevent this headache. Corporate counsel can strategically minimize costs and promote efficiencies during the entire process, from creating the contract to selecting the country of arbitration.

If you’ve been a litigator on the<br />outside, welcome to a whole new ball game. As in-house counsel, your focus is not just on getting those pleadings filed, but also<br />implementing litigation holds, managing outside counsel, conducting investigations, analyzing your position, determining strategy, and much more. And it is not just about conducting the litigation. It is also about taking steps and creating programs to avoid litigation, performing cost benefit analysis and risk assessment to determine whether to get in, stay in, or get out, and conducting a thorough post mortem of each case so that you acquire a very long educational list of “lessons learned” that will direct you in the future. Come learn from our panel of experts who have “been there, done that.”

In Hong Kong, Domain names are registered on a first-come-first served basis. In certain situations, competitors can register a domain name in bad faith in order to disrupt another company's business. In this short article, some mechanisms of domain name dispute resolution are explained.

This InfoPAK (now known as ACC Guides) provides a high-level overview of privacy rules and principles in the United Kingdom.

This article addresses the practical issue of establishing corporate values and then embedding and sustaining those values in its corporate decision-making structure.

This guide reviews anti-corruption legislation, conventions, and practices in Italy.

This issue discusses European outsourcing and data protection among other key issues.

Learn how to develop a powerful, scalable, flexible, feature-rich policy management system enables organizations to manage policies throughout all of the stages of the policy life cycle.

In the past 50 years women’s legal status has improved all over the world. But many laws still make it difficult for women to fully participate in economic life - whether by getting jobs or starting businesses. Discriminatory rules bar women from certain jobs, restrict access to capital for women-owned firms and limit women’s capacity to make legal decisions. Gender differences in laws affect both developing and developed economies, and women in all regions.

Non-disclosure and confidentiality agreements are ubiquitous and used daily in a variety of contexts, from mergers and acquisitions to more ordinary course commercial transactions. Faculty will cover recent case law regarding confidentiality agreements in the acquisition context and describe some broader implications. We will provide a walk-through of common confidentiality provisions, and tips and perspectives for both the disclosing and recipient parties. Although most in-house counsel have experience with confidentiality agreements, this presentation will drill down on some of the pitfalls and important provisions that get missed. We will provide a confidentiality agreement form, marked to show different provisions and negotiating positions to serve as a useful guide.

Clive Anderson oversees Manulife’s legal and compliance functions in seven Southeast Asian countries, including Singapore, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. Read this article to learn his take on Manulife’s Pan-Asia growth strategy.

Company demands for cost savings and efficiency are forcing corporate legal departments to do more with less. Metrics quantify performance, enable benchmarking and reporting of trends and can help justify budget and headcounts. But can legal work be measured? “Yes”, say the panelists of this session. Join them to hear their explanation and to learn from their best practices how performance shall, and can, be measured.

This article explores the increasing popularity of Bitcoin and how it is an attractive asset due to its decentralized nature (as opposed to the centralized retaliation that assets in banks are vulnerable to). It also looks at why Bitcoin being decentralized could prevent it from subject to international sanctions.

This is a sample mutual non-disclosure and confidentiality agreement between two companies.

This course explains our policy on giving business courtesies — gifts, meals and entertainment — to those with whom we do business, as well as our policy on accepting business courtesies. (Licensed for use in classroom settings only and not for distribution in any form.)

Patent litigation can be pricey — approximately 2.5 million USD through trial. Additionally, litigation demands the valuable time of key executives. Limiting the number and degree of harmful litigation cases is the responsibility of in-house counsel. Read this article to learn how to reduce your company’s risk of IP litigation.

Christy Neuhoff, system VP general counsel of St. Luke's Health System, discusses dealing with change in her industry, career and life in general.

These are sample policies regarding appearance and grooming, religion reasonable accommodation, and transgender employment.

This case law is on the issue of whether the equitable defenses of laches should apply in this case to bar the recovery of any pre-filing damages for infringement that NexTag might owe LendingTree and whether LendingTree should be equitably estopped from obtaining any relief on its infringement claims against NexTag.

Much has been said about the lack of diversity in the legal profession. However, by highlighting a successful partnership program between manufacturing company Corning Incorporated and law firm Ward Greenberg Heller & Reidy, LLP, in-house counsel can learn to make the business case for encouraging collaborative diversity initiatives in the workplace.