Discover how to expedite complex reviews and respond to common contracting issues that often arise with data security addendums.
In this issue of Canadian Briefings, a quarterly supplement of the ACC Docket, learn more about small law department operations.
Attorneys offer litigation predictions so their clients are able to make informed decisions. When coupled with unrealistic expectations, however, a prediction might be mistaken as an assurance of outcome. Make sure your client understands the value and limits of litigation predictions, or else you might be as popular as the local weatherman.
Read a short recap of key ESG developments in 2022 in Europe, the United States, Canada, Japan, Germany, Norway, and The Netherlands.
How to Gain Traction: Bootcamp for Leaders of Early Stage Legal Operation Functions
Learn about a 2022 Supreme Court decision that curtails discovery significantly in international arbitration cases.
An overview of contract review and negotiation policies as well as a sample contract review policy and procedure. Includes provisions regarding the contract review policy, considerations of prior contractual relationships, standard contracts, non-standard contracts and RFP's, and specific issues requiring review and approval.
High up in the clouds is unsettled legal terrain. A growing number of businesses now outsource data center functions to cloud service providers, and how this will impact the legal realm is currently being decided. Learn about the possible application of international privacy law in a multijurisdictional cloud and whether traditional licensing contracts are still relevant.
The number of publicly traded entities under scrutiny by activist shareholders is at an all-time high. Challenges come with activist attention and investment, including significant time and analysis required by the members<br />of the board of directors as to the claims, actions and observations by such activists.
Does your external counsel ever come across as disconnected? Many law firms desire a deeper understanding of their clients' business operations, structure and ways of working. Many businesses, in turn, wish that their external counsel had a clearer appreciation for the issues impacting their operations, were up to speed with their current business activities and initiatives, and were more closely attuned to their corporate culture. Introducing a secondment program is a great way to achieve many of these goals.
Learn about the FTC's priorities under FTC Chair Lina Khan, who has a more expansive view of antitrust enforcement.
Learn about the effects of California's Broad Pay Transparency law on pay disclosure and pay data requirement in California and similar movements in other states.
Learn how Turkey governs data transfers - both domestically and cross-border.
Ethics codes that comply with Sarbanes-Oxley must offer anonymous whistleblowing; yet such anonymous hotlines and mandatory reporting rules are anathema to many Europeans — especially to those in Germany and France — because reporting via anonymous hotlines smacks of Nazi and
Soviet-style authoritarianism. Multinational companies are caught in the middle of this culture clash. Learn how such companies can successfully meet the competing demands of the laws on both sides of the pond.
Fools rush in when conducting business in Japan. Rather than race through a deal, most Japanese employers value group consensus decision-making — and the same is true for creating contracts and finalizing negotiations with outside parties. After learning the basics of Japanese business etiquette, in-house counsel will discover why patience truly is a virtue.
In-house lawyers contribute substantially to the development of the enterprise-wide risk management plan, but successful lawyers often go beyond this function, bringing more to the table than just legal expertise. Lawyers can best position themselves as executive leaders if they use a risk management template to develop an individual professional effectiveness plan.
What legislation is applicable to insolvencies and reorganisations? What criteria are applied in your country to determine if a debtor is insolvent?
Trying to rein in discovery costs and risks associated with corporate email? This primer will take your records retention policy to the next level.
Too often we overlook provisions in contracts that we consider customary or “boilerplate” and non-negotiable. This program examines standard contract provisions and challenges the audience to look at them more critically from a litigator’s perspective. The interactive program dissects contract provisions that have hidden traps and provides tips on better risk management with an in-depth look at non-assignment clauses, liability limitations, merger clauses, choice of law clauses and other similar provisions.
Many of us deal with compliance related to local governments and the politics that go along with it. Whether in connection with simple zoning and land use issues, massive public–private partnership deals or regional development agencies, a general counsel who ignores the impact of the local political environment does so at their company's peril. Knowledge of the law is one thing; being able to navigate the political waters is an entirely different one. In a mock public-hearing format using headlines and video from recent media, a diverse panel will conduct a highly interactive session to demonstrate the pitfalls of working with local government and offer practical solutions.
Discuss the remaining specific challenges facing the compliance officer today; understand how to research your industry's specific compliance needs; learn about some of the hottest compliance issues that are seeing greater enforcement now; and discuss emerging regulatory schemes that could prove troubling for your organization.
This multi-jurisdictional guide provides an overview of key legal issues, rules and developments regarding patents across a range of jurisdictions.
Topics covered include enforcement, licensing, term extension, and prosecution – in 25 jurisdictions.
What legislation is applicable to insolvencies and re-organisations? What criteria are applied in your country to determine if a debtor is insolvent in the European Union?
Getting the Deal Through is delighted to publish the ninth edition of Arbitration, a volume in our series of annual reports, which provide international analysis in key areas of law and policy for corporate counsel, cross-border legal practitioners and business people.
Learn how the European Union's AI Act and and the GDPR have a number of common features, and read about governance at the EU and national levels.
Discuss key steps your peers take when faced with a new lawsuit; Discuss why, when and how your peers establish and manage a litigation hold; Learn the importance of your focus as in-house counsel – it’s not just on getting those pleadings filed, but also implementing litigation holds, managing outside counsel, conducting investigations, analyzing your position, determining strategy and much more; Understand how your peers assess the financial impact a particular piece of litigation may have on your organization, and how they provide management with the tools and knowledge that management needs to make decisions about risk; Learn to take steps and create programs to prevent litigation and, when disputes occur, how to resolve them as early as appropriate for your business; discuss cost benefit analysis and risk assessment to determine whether to get in, stay in or get out; and Discuss how to conduct a thorough post mortem of each case in order to develop a list of “lessons learned” that will direct you in the future.
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