This article discusses the Securities and Exchange Commission's final Rule 13q-1
What legislation is applicable to insolvencies and reorganisations? What criteria are applied in your country to determine if a debtor is insolvent?
The prevalence of anxiety, depression, and substance abuse within the legal profession is well known. South Carolina attorney Will Jordan personalizes the statistics by sharing his experience with anxiety and depression. Using a storytelling format, Will describes how he came to recognize his mental health struggles, how he tried (unsuccessfully) to cure them, and how, over the years, he has learned to cope with them. Will seeks to decrease the stigma around mental health issues in the legal profession and to provide encouragement and resources for lawyers suffering from anxiety, depression, or substance abuse.
This panel will feature the following speaker:
Will JordanChief, Civil DivisionUnited States Attorney's Office District of South Carolina (Bio) |
This is a discussion of key securities law considerations for start-up or early-stage companies preparing to grant compensatory equity awards to employees, directors or other service providers.
Pricing strategies, including discounts, promotions, and strike-through pricing, may be an effective way to entice customers, but regulators across the globe are carefully monitoring such offers to ensure they are genuine and not misleading. By comparing rules in the EU, UK, and US, this session will cover topics such as discounted pricing, ancillary marketing claims, auto-renewing online subscription, and example pricing plans. In light of increased fining powers for consumer law infringements in the EU, it is crucial for consumer businesses to be aware of the rules governing their promotional strategies to avoid the risk of heavy fines.
Presented in cooperation with Bird & Bird LLP
This outline describes the advantages and disadvantages of using ADR and its applicability to
trademark and unfair competition disputes. The characteristics of the most common methods
of ADR are listed, and settlement techniques are suggested. For court mandated ADR
procedures, the Local Rules in the United States District Court for the Northern District of
Ohio are used as a model, where applicable.
It is inescapable: All companies, no matter the industry, face litigation risks through the day-to-day creation of documents.
"Bad" documents increase your exposure to risks and can threaten your business. This article discusses ways an organization can coach its employees to avoid those documents and instead create "smart" documents that help advance case themes and mitigate risk should litigation arise.
Sample employee intellectual property assignment agreement
Read this 2012 Apex Award-winning article! What personality type is ideal for an in- house attorney? Using the Caliper Profile, the authors evaluated the personality traits of each member of a global legal team. Did the results favor the empathetic and flexible, or the disciplined and focused? Read this article to develop your perfect legal personality.
The ACC Australia Trends Survey examines the practices, trends and changes in the in-house legal profession. ACC Australia has developed this report with the support of our Corporate Alliance Partners.
Declaratory judgment jurisdiction law is not what it used to be. Recent changes have complicated patent license negotiations but this article, which presents viewpoints from both sides of the issue, investigates protective measures that attorneys can take to both minimize risks and maximize chances of benefiting from the newly reformed law.
Global business leaders provide unique strategies for how the in-house counsel of today can be better prepared to become the in-house counsel of tomorrow.
This short article (Quick Counsel) describes the challenges that employers face with regard to previously ineligible individuals seeking to obtain employment authorization under the the US Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) program.
This article covers why building a diverse and inclusive legal team is essential to obtaining superior results.
What legislation is applicable to insolvencies and reorganisations? What criteria are applied in your country to determine if a debtor is insolvent?
What legislation is applicable to insolvencies and reorganizations? What criteria are applied in your country to determine if a debtor is insolvent?
This guide reviews applicable legislation to insolvencies and reorganizations in Peru.
This article discusses the gig economy, that is, workers developing niche areas of specialist expertise, but having careers characterized by a series of interactions with various organizations.
Compared to traditional, on-site computing, cloud services offer greater collaboration, better insight over data, more integrated and efficient development, and more productivity tools, from office suites to storage—all at a fraction of the cost.
The world has migrated more and more daily activities online, from learning to working to shopping, but with that migration comes exacerbated privacy issues. This panel of industry experts will discuss a number of data privacy and cybersecurity topics like managing your practices through contract provisions, challenges faced by companies due to increasing numbers of cyberattacks, and the need to keep pace with the consistently evolving global privacy landscape. You will learn best practices for negotiating and drafting privacy and cybersecurity provisions across jurisdictions, especially in the European Union, United States, and China.
This on-demand program is not eligible for CLE/CPD credit.
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