Judge Joan Lefkow's remarks on women attorneys' courtroom attire raises the issue of how to dress appropriately.
As governments around the world enact and enforce ever stricter anticorruption laws, the need to effectively manage sales intermediary corruption risks has become more important than ever.
The Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA) changed the rules of class action lawsuits to alleviate problems with forum-shopping and limit the number of interstate class action suits decided in state courts that have little, if any, connection to the case or controversy. But in the short term, CAFA could wind up making class action suits more protracted, and quite costly to corporate defendants. Read how to navigate the potholes, detours, pit stops, and dangerous curves of the statute.
This resource discusses cyber-risk, the threat that data breaches can hold and what Directors should do to protect their companies in the United States. This is resource is part of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) Handbook Series.
This InfoPAK (now known as ACC Guides) provides a practical guide to joint ventures, including practice notes and standard documents for cross-border deals with detailed drafting notes highlighting the main legal, commercial and negotiating issues in the United Kingdom.
This is an anti-corruption summary of information discussed in the 2014 ACC Annual Meeting Session 105: Keep Your Executives Out of Jail and Avoid Massive Fines: Responding to the New Age of Worldwide Anti-Corruption Legislation.
A sample agreement between a company and a vendor. The company may be/has been awarded GSA delivery orders for supplying information technology products and services to U.S. Government Agencies and other organizations eligible to use GSA sources of supply. The company does not have the vendor products and services desired by the government on its GSA FSS contract, and as authorized, vendor and the company desire to team their GSA FSS contracts.
Need to know what your staff is doing when they’re on company time but away from the office? GPS systems are standard-issue features on virtually all vehicles and PDAs, yet few employers are using the technology to monitor company activity or property. This article explains how employers can implement GPS tracking without infringing on individual privacy rights.
This is a list of select Morrison & Foerster publications on cases from the Supreme Court's 2014 term in the United States.
This is a sample employee handbook.
This primer provides an introduction to key concepts of English insolvency law.
Learn about the meaning of ESG, beyond the acronym and misconceptions.
If your life is a whirlwind of business lunches, late hours, and airplane food, try letting a little calm into the storm. Consistent exercise will give you better health, and the focus you need.
This is a Forbes article addressing how crowdfunding has changed real estate investing.
This is a sample agreement of sale with attached lease to purchaser.
The Federal Trade Commissions submitted this report to Congress under sections 318 and 319 of FACTA.
Comprehensive legal billing guidelines can help organizations achieve better budget predictability and support collaboration with outside counsel.
In this article, Elizabeth Gonzalez, Director, Operations, at Northwell Health, discusses how her organization created a more efficient legal billing process.
The joint circular on intermediaries' virtual asset-related activities addresses the evolving virtual asset landscape and allowing intermediaries to distribute virtual asset-related derivative products to retail investors under limited circumstances.
Read this 2009 Communicator Award-winning article! <br/>Discusses how legal doctrines shape the corporate social responsibility (CSR) debate, enables in-house counsel to recognize CSR for what it is and why it is important and suggests ways to deal with it in your role as corporate attorney.
The respondents overwhelmingly question the integrity of their leaders and perhaps with good cause. The survey reveals that many employees would accept fraud and corruption in the work place in order to survive the current economic storm and indeed senior management are even more likely than rank and file to condone activities such as cash bribes and financial statement fraud.
This resource provides an overview of patent regulations in Switzerland, with a focus on enforcement proceedings, licensing, and ownership.
This guide provides an overview of patent enforcement proceedings in Mexico.
Singapore is a major center for trade relationships with other Asian countries as well as the rest of the world. Its familiarity with the English language, the English legal structure, and its high regard for the rule of law and ease of doing business make Singapore an attractive location for Western companies seeking to establish a presence in Asia. This program will explore the advantages and disadvantages of centralizing Asian operations and trading relationships in Singapore. It will examine the organizational structures that are available in Singapore and other practical issues relating to establishing a business presence in Singapore, including hiring staff and protecting intellectual property. The panel will also consider the impact of using a Singapore entity in cross-border commercial arrangements, including considerations regarding choice of law and dispute resolution options.
The purpose of this brief note is to help market participants make contingency plans where the political crisis involving Ukraine results in sanctions and embargoes, exchange controls, expropriations and the break up of Ukraine. It focuses in particular on the legal impact these events might have on financial contracts, such as bond issues, bank loan agreements, deposits and investments. It does not deal with wider political and economic consequences, such as the impact on a country’s economy and its banking system.
What legislation is applicable to insolvencies and reorganisations? What criteria are applied in your country to determine if a debtor is insolvent?
Legal Research training specifically designed for in-house counsel - presentation held in Sydney on 6 May 2015.
Listed entities should familiarise themselves with the recent changes ASX has made to Listing Rules and Guidance Notes, particularly in relation to disclosure and capital raising.
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