Council on State Taxation amicus brief, TEXTRON V. US, 1/10

This article discusses the Securities and Exchange Commission's final Rule 13q-1

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.

With a 500 percent increase in international corruption-related global resolutions over the past two years, corruption remains a top-of-mind risk for your management and board.

Overview Brazil's business environment. Includes discussion of tax law, legal system, investment law, intellectual property considerations, and marketing.

This is a discussion of key securities law considerations for start-up or early-stage companies preparing to grant compensatory equity awards to employees, directors or other service providers.

This outline describes the advantages and disadvantages of using ADR and its applicability to
trademark and unfair competition disputes. The characteristics of the most common methods
of ADR are listed, and settlement techniques are suggested. For court mandated ADR
procedures, the Local Rules in the United States District Court for the Northern District of
Ohio are used as a model, where applicable.

It is inescapable: All companies, no matter the industry, face litigation risks through the day-to-day creation of documents. 

"Bad" documents increase your exposure to risks and can threaten your business. This article discusses ways an organization can coach its employees to avoid those documents and instead create "smart" documents that help advance case themes and mitigate risk should litigation arise.

Sample employee intellectual property assignment agreement

Read this 2012 Apex Award-winning article! What personality type is ideal for an in- house attorney? Using the Caliper Profile, the authors evaluated the personality traits of each member of a global legal team. Did the results favor the empathetic and flexible, or the disciplined and focused? Read this article to develop your perfect legal personality.

Learn about key regulatory developments and guidance at the intersection of competition law and sustainability in the European Union, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom, in connection with calls for competition laws to support sustainability.

The Home Office (United Kingdom) has updated its sponsor guidance to incorporate recent changes to immigration rules as well as some other changes to the guidance. In this article, learn about these employment changes to ensure compliance.

The ACC Australia Trends Survey examines the practices, trends and changes in the in-house legal profession. ACC Australia has developed this report with the support of our Corporate Alliance Partners.

Declaratory judgment jurisdiction law is not what it used to be. Recent changes have complicated patent license negotiations but this article, which presents viewpoints from both sides of the issue, investigates protective measures that attorneys can take to both minimize risks and maximize chances of benefiting from the newly reformed law.

Global business leaders provide unique strategies for how the in-house counsel of today can be better prepared to become the in-house counsel of tomorrow.

This article discusses the gig economy, that is, workers developing niche areas of specialist expertise, but having careers characterized by a series of interactions with various organizations.

On April 3, 2024, the US Securities and Exchange Commission announced that it had reached a $6.5 million settlement with registered investment adviser (RIA) Senvest Management, LLC on charges related to the firm’s “widespread and longstanding failures to maintain and preserve certain electronic communications.”

This article analyze potential lessons learned from this latest off-channel communications SEC enforcement action.

Compared to traditional, on-site computing, cloud services offer greater collaboration, better insight over data, more integrated and efficient development, and more productivity tools, from office suites to storage—all at a fraction of the cost.

The main purpose of the Open Skies Agreements is to deregulate certain areas of the air transport industry in Brazil and, consequently, encourage the market to work freely, which causes various effects in liberalized markets.

While a corporate legal department may not be the ideal environment to foster a balance between work and life­ is it even possible to achieve? Here, the authors look at the obstacles standing in the way of in-house counsel attempting to strike that balance in order to find out if work/life balance is in fact possible to find­ or if it is merely a myth.

Executive teams in the U.S. live in fear of a successful ransomware attack, and who can blame them? In this Top Ten, learn some steps you can take to mitigate the impact of these events and potentially reduce their likelihood.

This short article (Quick Counsel) describes the challenges that employers face with regard to previously ineligible individuals seeking to obtain employment authorization under the the US Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) program.