March 2008- Tolls & Solutions for Doing Your Job Better
This presentation speaks about how to find prior art in the United States.
This article has an update for the Shareholder Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Resolutions in Australia following their previous update in September 2020. Describing some of the recent changes and developments, their conclusion was that the increasing number of ESG resolutions demonstrates that activities are making full use of their ability to requisition shareholder resolutions.
Instead of pitting the generations against each other, Columnist Whitnie Wiley suggests that millennials, Gen-Xers, and baby boomers should try to understand one another.
Most lawyers are seriously deficient at using the time-saving features built into the basic tools of the trade — standard software like Outlook, Word and Adobe. Could you pass a technology competency assessment? If not, don’t dismay, these skills aren’t innate; sometimes training is necessary.
Gone are the days of the precedent libraries stored in bulky three ring binders. Here, Gregory Stern offers tech tips on consolidating and simplifying the drafting process.
Sample joint promotion agreement.
Legal professionals and support staff who have remained employed during the downturn may have been better off than those who lost their jobs, but this is not to say they haven't had their share of stress. Read this article to learn how to be sensitive to the impact of these changes on your employees.
In this session, we will cover important recent U.S. Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) developments, rulemaking and enforcement trends. We will update our Dodd-Frank scorecards and review the most significant recently adopted and proposed rules. The session will also cover important lessons from the 2013 proxy season, with a particular focus on stockholder activism, and updates in the auditing and accounting arena — calling out hot spots in SEC accounting reviews. This will be a fast-moving session that assumes participants have a working knowledge of the 1933 Act and the 1934 Act.
“Good economics” in administrative proceedings: Three challenges
Sometimes the best career advice can come from an overlooked source. This feature article points out how in-house counsel can use musicians as models for improving their careers and subsequently their companies.
This is a sample hotel guest room accommodation agreement.
Practicing labor and employment law in a multinational business can be a difficult task. Of particular complexity are the varying standards and procedures required for terminating and disciplining employees. What might seem like a straightforward issue in one jurisdiction can be fraught with significant risk in another. This interactive panel will provide an overview of the key principles related to employee termination and discipline in a variety of international jurisdictions. The panel will also provide insight, best practices and resources for in-house counsel tasked with managing these issues globally.
Even if you don’t know why your job hunting efforts have yet to yield results, you may be able to breathe new life into your search by taking the actions outlined in this article.
Examines the invisible social hand that we live by and how in-house counsel can use it to their advantage in a company's compliance and ethics program.
The job market is usually talked about as though it’s a single, uniform entity. What’s often overlooked is the fact that there are really two markets: one in which the general hiring outlook remains relatively weak, and another in which demand for educated, highly skilled professionals is strong.
If you’re contemplating a career transition or in the midst of one, read this article and learn some valuable tips.
This is a sample internet usage policy.
There are many different types of mentoring relationships, but all provide benefits to both the advisor and the protégé. See if a mentor program is right for your organization.
This is an outline for the session CLOLL2
This is a short course on written advocacy in mediation.
These are ten steps a Board can take when determining cybersecurity.
This checklist helps businesses ensure that they're meeting (American Disabilities Act) ADA-related expectations for their venues.
This policy sets out the acceptable and unacceptable uses of company credit cards.
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