This article contains four tips to help ensure that you don’t trade career advancement opportunities for flexibility when telecommuting.
Here are five tips for discovering your personal brand and learning how to make it work for you.
Usually, the biggest obstacle in enforcing the right to equal pay is that the employee does not know whether colleagues of the other sex – the Transparency Act focuses on sex, not gender – receive more pay.
Review of Portuguese laws and regulations related to the distribution of pharmaceuticals.
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 in the Philippines.
No matter the size of your company or the particulars of your industry, a formal recoveries program can track how your legal department contributes to the company’s bottom line. There are benefits and downsides to affirmative recoveries programs. This article addresses those issues, as well as any other questions you might have about implementing such a program. You might be surprised by what you learn.
Revera, Inc., recently conducted a review of its in-house legal department. The review analyzed the department’s alignment with strategic objectives, workflows, workload capacity, organizational structure and management practices, and relationships with external counsel. The central questions asked were as follows: What value does the department offer? How can it be increased? How is it demonstrated? The results of the review prompted Revera, Inc., to consider some changes to its legal department, as discussed in this article.
The scope of information to be held confidential is remarkably similar for all lawyers, no matter the country you practice in. The real differences are manifested in the exceptions to the duty of confidentiality and the applicability of the duty to in-house lawyers. The exceptions to confidentiality are generally (though not universally) broader in the United States. Do not always assume that US ethics law is the most protective. When it comes to confidential information relating to business crimes or fraud, for example, it often may not be. It is imperative to fully understand and properly analyze confidentiality and choice of law issues where foreign ethics law is involved.
Despite the hard work and long hours that are synonymous with legal departments, they are often unappreciated and viewed as an impediment to progress. By following the three-step approach presented in this article, however, you can promote cross- organizational cooperation, while still managing risk effectively, and help your company better achieve its overall goals.
The substantial increase in international trade disputes, constraints on US courts, and the limited reach of US court judgments create a demand for an innovative way to handle international technology disputes.
Properly executing a legal hold need not be an overly complicated or intimidating process. What it does require, however, is thoughtful planning and preparation in order to protect the business. This article contains ten best practices for creating a systematic process for executing legal holds.
This decision by the High Court of Australia highlights the importance of carefully drafting reasonable endeavours clauses. Where it is commercially acceptable, it would be prudent for an obligee to seek to include express, specific and objective boundaries on the obligor's conduct.
How many employees have you had off work sick in the last year? Do you struggle to manage these absences? Would more detailed medical information about each employee's condition help you? Two recent cases provide useful guidance for employers in obtaining, and using employee medical reports.
A recent decision in Australian law suggests that management action will be viewed as a whole, and not with a focus on each step taken. This approach may indicate that the anti-bullying jurisdiction may provide even less relief for workers than previously thought. Read more to find out how this will impact anti-harassment protocol in your company.
The EU national authorities have been consistently imposing increased compliance verification and audits and overall tightening sanctions. As a recent example, restrictions have been placed on financial support for trade and opening of new branches. Supply chain security remains a major concern: are we doing the upfront due diligence and do we have all the appropriate contractual clauses? How can we secure a supply chain in an international export environment where regulatory bodies impose customs and import restrictions on certain products? This session will focus on providing an update from an EU trade and export/import controls perspective.
The Stark Law has promulgated complicated regulations for transactions involving payments to physicians. All facets of the healthcare industry also face on a daily basis the shadow of government prosecutors focused on violations of the federal anti-kickback statute. These laws involve both criminal prosecution and civil liability, and in-house attorneys have at times been prosecuted as individual defendants. Enforcement is expanding to cover individual physicians as prescribers of company products and providers of services to companies, such as consulting and clinical investigator services, and to physician ownership of medical device distributors. Looming over healthcare companies and individuals is the potential to be debarred from participation in Medicare, Medicaid & other federal health care programs. In addition, in-house counsel need to be aware of obscure state laws on the issues of physician self-referral prohibition and anti-kickbacks. This program will discuss the government’s new enforcement trend and mechanisms that in-house counsel can employ to reduce these risks.
Representing European companies in U.S. litigation is not at all the same as representing your American client in U.S. litigation. Learn what you need to take into account, such as billing procedure differences, confidentiality requirements differences, translation requirements and differences in expectations on the part of your clients.
This is a list of additional course materials dealing with the energy industry.
This article focuses on a shift in the billable hour paradigm and how law firms and clients must look forward and focus on the outcomes that are desired, rather than looking backwards at the cost of production. The billable hour has diametrically opposed functions for both sides in the relationship: (1) unit of production and (2) basis of profitability. Not until both sides understand that you can't have the same unit serving dual purposes, will they truly understand alternative fees and value-based relationships. This article delves into what is required to establish a new model for law firm economics.
<p/>This ACC Value Challenge resource is part 2 of a 3 part series. To view the other resources in this series, please click here:</p>
<p class=><a id=CP___PAGEID=1365185| href=/legalresources/resource.cfm?show=1365185>ACC Value Challenge: Facing Up to the Challenge - The Case for Change (Part 1)</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 is a sample computer, email and internet usage policy.
Results can be multiplied when you put together any combination of in-sourcing, unbundling, alternative legal service providers, process improvement, value-based fees and technology.
Read Todd Silberman's insights on the balance between work and life. Do we live to work or work to live?
This article contains five tips for freshening up your legal resume right now.
This article examines industry changes resulting from an automated workforce and identifies future trends.
Despite the CLO’s best efforts, Legal is almost always viewed as a cost center within the corporation. What are the most effective ways that you as a CLO can continuously prove your value to the company, what metrics do you use to do it, and how do you get the company to see the cost savings that result from early and regular consultation with Legal?
This is a sample personnel policy concerning corporate credit card use.
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