The more you share your knowledge and experience, the more you learn. In this article, in-house counsel can learn about the benefits of mentoring and how their expertise is elevated by connecting with newer members of the legal community.
Take a few lessons learned on the golf course and use them to promote a strong ethical corporate culture.
Social media has continued to grow in its use and accessibility at tremendous speeds. It's important that in-house counsel and their legal department understand social media and implement policies that protect the companies and employees from any issues.
This article highlights the implications of the new mandatory reporting legislation, to be introduced in 2018. In-house counsel should be aware of cybersecurity standards for their company and how it impacts their work.
This article takes a look at how herd mentality can influence ethical decisions, and how to leverage the power of the group to make effective decisions.
Finding a new job is always important — but so is your exit from your current role.
Tips on how formal training for in-house counsel will benefit the company in the long run.
This checklist provides an overview of the U.S. E-Sign Act and the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (UETA) and lists practice points for using electronic records and signatures.
Because of their disposition, background and training, lawyers are often most comfortable expressing themselves through the spoken or written word. The reports that legal departments give to their boards of directors (BOD) are often in the form of narratives of major events (litigation, claims, etc.) that are considered sufficient material for the board’s review. However, BODs continue to increase their expectations of the quality and depth of information they receive from all members of the senior management team. Legal departments can use readily available data and software to create statistics-driven analyses to enhance their understanding of trends in their areas of responsibility, and increase the value of their reports. Come to this session to learn how lawyers without formal business administration training can use common software tools to create analytics (that do not require extensive statistical or modeling expertise or additional expense), and convey this information to their boards.
There are a variety of reasons why companies move their data to the Cloud. In this article, issues with software asset management, use of external electronic data storage, and IT teams capabilities are discussed for Hong Kong-based companies. This resource was produced in December 2019.
As in-house counsel, you provide your outside counsel with some of your company's most highly sensitive information. Your company may have robust procedures for evaluating other third-party vendors with access to company data, but often with respect to law firms, the procurement process is left solely to in-house counsel. Do you know what your law firms are doing to protect that information from cyber attacks and other disclosures? Even if you consider your company to be at low risk for cyber incidents, can the same be said of your law firms? This discussion will explore the issue of law firm data security - how to address the issue when retaining a new firm or raise the issue with an existing firm. The panel will also discuss what policies and processes should be applied inside the legal department to meet in-house counsel's ethical obligations under Rule 1.6 of the Model Rules of Professional Conduct.
Understand what comprises an effective compliance program and learn to implement and maintain effective monitoring mechanisms and audit plans, which pose ongoing challenges for in-house counsel whose compliance role is often just one of many.
German Finance ministers look to decrease the activity of treaty shopping in order to benefit the taxpayer.
This paper gives valuable insight, based on a depth of experience and keen observation, into the representative business models prevalent in the labour and employment field in Australia.
601 - Trade Secrets & Restrictive Covenants - Competing Considerations in a Mobile Marketplace
ACC’s “2015 Top 10 30-Somethings” are passionate change-makers; always seeking opportunities to positively impact their companies, industries and communities. They face challenges like increased regulation and advancing technology with a calculated, patient stamina that many of them learned as athletes. Whether fighting corruption or advancing diversity in the profession, no goal is too far reaching for this group, especially considering the dedicated, talented teams that support them. Our winners may live and work around the globe, but they are banded together in their efforts to make it a better place.
In 2015, ACC received more nominations for its “Top 10 30-Somethings” honor than ever before. The 2015 class reflects the inspired competition and epitomizes ACC values: tireless innovation, love of practice and a genuine international perspective.
In this article, global competition and antitrust rules with respect to intellectual property license agreements and supply/distribution agreements are examined.
This article explores investing practices and regulations in Switzerland from the perspective of Chinese companies.
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