This Leading Practices Profile presents themes, trends and leading convergence practices of six legal departments and three law firms in selecting and managing preferred outside counsel networks as value partners.
Even if you've done your due diligence on your new company - spoken to current and former employees, read their website, asked good questions in the interview- sometimes the shine of a new job can come off right away. When you start to hear things like leaving early? or don't tell the Board can you articulate why things feel off? This TED-style talk will help you identify your core workplace values and how to stand up for them when the ship feels off course.
511 - Use of Nonlegal Managers to Perform Legal Functions
With corporations today paying greater attention to their internal processes and procedures, it is an ideal time for legal departments to create and implement a legal department business plan. This article provides models and components for developing a legal department business plan.
This article deals with board tools for oversight of cybersecurity risk.
Directors and officers need to be concerned with the terms and conditions of their company's D&O liability insurance. Company heads are demanding that in-house counsel ensure that the broadest coverage available is in place, and this article will help you review the scope of protection for your company.
This article recommends measures for you to use as you help your company address and successfully integrate cultural awareness into the policies and guidelines of U.S. multi-national corporations conducting business and operating entities in foreign countries.
How does HIPAA's privacy rule affect in-house counsel?
The technology sector is no stranger to patent litigation, especially in the smartphone and tablet industry. The current Apple-Samsung dispute involves over 50 lawsuits in nine countries. This article considers the Apple-Samsung dispute and provides an alternative universe scenario: What would this litigation battle look like in international arbitration?
Recent court decisions are causing major concerns for employers who require a general release to be signed by employees as a precondition to receiving payments under a severance plan or negotiated separation agreement. This article attempts to describe the background of employment-related waivers and explores the court decisions affecting them.
This paper explores the approach taken by courts in Bermuda and other jurisdictions in connection with issues and questions regarding transfer of trusteeship.
This guide provides an introduction to blockchain technologies and sectors that may be affected.
This is a sample capital stock purchase agreement.
Purchase Agreement (United Kingdom)
Every year, thousands of companies are sued because their website or mobile app is inaccessible to people with disabilities, and thousands more are served web accessibility ADA demand letters. In this session, you will learn the best response strategy if your company has been sued or served a demand letter and how to ensure accessibility and compliance for the long term. Discover how to evaluate the credibility of your demand letter, best practices for how to respond, and must-have policies and procedures that will reduce your future legal risk.
These are "Strawman" termsheet definitions.
This guide provides corporate counsel and international practitioners with comprehensive jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction guidance to enforcement of foreign judgments laws and regulations around the world.
This protocol was issued to establish a process for health care providers to voluntarily identify, disclose, and resolve instances of potential fraud involving the Federal health care programs (as defined in section 1128B(f) of the Social Security Act (the Act), 42 U.S.C. 1320a–7b(f)).
The purpose of this table is to: 1) list the countries in the European Union that have a comprehensive data protection law (columns 1 and 2); 2) summarize the notification and/or registration requirements with the competent data protection authority in these countries and explain where exemptions to notify/register may exist (columns 3 and 4); and 3) specify the countries where it is required to notify individuals about the collection and processing of their personal data (column 5).
John K. Villa discusses work product protection 25 years after Sporck v. Peil
Discusses U.K. discrimination laws, Italian labour law, and equal opportunity.
When you are trying to figure out whether to go to outside counsel for a legal opinion or to recommend that your company obtain UCC insurance, you need to consider several factors: what constitutes UCC insurance, comparison of typical legal opinions and UCC insurance coverage, multijurisdictional issues under the UCC, and cases requiring UCC insurance.
The Dow is wavering, stock prices are sinking, and consumer confidence is down. Take charge of your career now, to stop the sagging economy from eroding your options, and you may even find your career's perfect fit.
ACC and Everlaw conducted a survey of 373 in-house legal professionals in the United States to better understand the extent to which corporate legal departments are collaborating with other business units, how legal teams are collaborating with their law firms and other vendors, and how technology plays a role in enabling collaboration. The results reveal that although legal staff desire greater collaboration and there is a clear recognition of the benefits of doing so, there are impediments preventing legal teams from realizing that full potential.
A brief discussing the importance of the attorney-client privilege in the corporate context.
This article discusses India's rapidly evolving artificial intelligence ecosystem, including some key areas where AI is likely to have the greatest impact and strategies for in-house counsel.
This survey report aims to better understand the outside counsel selection process for litigation matters, the tools that departments are using for litigation workflows, the most common cost containment strategies, and how litigation needs are expected to change over time.
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