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This Guide provides an overview of law important to companies doing business in Florida, USA, including law related to corporate organization, taxation, investment, labor and employment, dispute resolution, etc.

This is a hotel group sales agreement where the Hotel agrees to hold the space listed in the agreement on a tentative basis until a specified date.

A checklist of issues to discuss with colleagues on the legal implications of future human resources practices.

Best Practices in Risk Assessment - presentation held in Sydney 17 May 2018.

This is a sample sales agreement where the Hotel agrees to hold the space listed in the agreement on a tentative basis.

Two sample resumes that could be used as models when you are applying for a new job.

The ability to effectively manage<br />outside counsel is essential to the success of in-house lawyers. Learn tips on selecting, evaluating, comparing, and retaining the outside counsel that best suit the organizational needs of your company, developing lists of providers and criteria for preferred legal service providers and specialized firms, implementing alternative billing models, and using legal project and process management techniques with your outside counsel to streamline your engagements.<br />

With the US Department of Justice (DOJ) collecting record corporate fines this year, your board asks if your company’s compliance is up to par. How do you respond? How do you gauge your program? This session will analyze the DOJ’s Federal Sentencing Guidelines for the Prosecution of Business Organizations, set out your minimum requirements, and lay out best practices that you can implement. This will cover leadership, risk assessments, policy development, communications, training, establishment of controls, and monitoring and testing of controls. Presenters will offer firsthand experiences (both positive and negative) and best practices for building and maintaining your compliance program.

When it comes to proactively managing careers, in-house counsel, like everyone else, tend to avoid addressing change unless absolutely forced to. You may not be sure what to expect from your position or how your position differs from other in-house counsel positions. The criteria here will help you determine whether it is time to move on to a new in-house counsel position.

The challenge: do more, do it well, do it quickly, and keep costs down. This is a reality facing law departments today. This practice profile explores how nine companies are stepping up to this challenge. Learn about practices utilizing non-lawyer personnel at companies such as 3M Company, ConocoPhillips, DuPont, FMC Technologies, Inc., McDonald's Corporation, Monsanto Company, Southwest Airlines, and Starbucks Coffee Company.

This informative presentation addresses the question of whether your company needs a compliance program, what makes an effective compliance program, and what compliance obligations apply to your company.

Cybersecurity touches every aspect of consumer and corporate culture today. Preventing, preparing for and responding to data breaches in real time is a chief concern for individuals, corporate leaders and government regulators. Download the 2015 ACC Foundation: the State of Cybersecurity Report, underwritten by Ballard Spahr LLP, and learn what more than 1,000 corporate counsel say about their cybersecurity experiences, role and practices. The full report includes industry and regional trends, common preventative tactics, lessons learned from those who experienced a breach (including how the breach occurred and who was affected), the impact of regulatory requirements, insurance decision making and coverage information, and managing risk through outside support such as forensic and outside counsel retainers and more.

Digitalization imposes, and almost automatically requires, the use of electronic signatures. An overview of the North American legal framework illustrates certain technicalities and misconceptions related to e-signatures.

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.

With the explosion of high technology, communication is getting faster, but not necessarily better. All employees who use company computers, telephones and stationery should be trained to think defensively about the legal consequences of what they write or say. Formulating an effective document and e-mail management policy can reduce the risk of costly litigation.

What compensation do your in-house peers get? Check out the 2023 Law Department Compensation benchmarking survey results. 

This article examines the key disclosure issues and challenges facing companies during the 2013 proxy season and provides examples of company responses to these issues taken from proxy statements filed during the first half of 2013.