This program will build on Part I, Risk Assessment, and offer guidelines and tips for creating a compliance program, best practices for maintenance and updating the program once it is in place.
This is a sample business conduct policy.
Ins & Outs — Legal Leaders Use the Matrix to Expand Time. Research shows time pressure and workload are significant pressures facing legal teams. Use of the Legal Matrix can help a legal team's effectiveness in all areas.
Many law departments now have preferred provider programs (PPPs) in place and many are working to establish them, but how can they take these PPPs to the next level? This session will discuss best practices in establishing and upgrading PPPs, including practical guidelines for changing the dynamic of your PPP from consolidation to practice area-driven needs. The panel’s discussion will cover PPPs for both outside counsel and vendors such as e-discovery providers.
The general counsel, vice president and chief compliance officer of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists shares her daily routine, including her penchant for music.
Janine Greenwood, chief legal officer, vice president and secretary of National Student Clearinghouse, describes her daily routine. She shares the success of her efforts to make uniform her organization’s compliance policies and procedures and how she makes use of ACC resources. <br />
The key to good leadership in a membership organization is truly understanding the people who look to you for answers, as well as engaging them on a meaningful level. This takes some individual attention, as people join organizations for a number of reasons.
In a market where job seekers continue to outnumber available positions, legal professionals know it can take more than solid credentials to get hired. Here are tips on what 'more' means.
Sometimes the best way to enhance ones management abilities is to study mistakes that are most frequently made and why. This article contains some common pitfalls and how they can be avoided.
This article contains four tips to help ensure that you don’t trade career advancement opportunities for flexibility when telecommuting.
Here are five tips for discovering your personal brand and learning how to make it work for you.
Usually, the biggest obstacle in enforcing the right to equal pay is that the employee does not know whether colleagues of the other sex – the Transparency Act focuses on sex, not gender – receive more pay.
Review of Portuguese laws and regulations related to the distribution of pharmaceuticals.
Eighth edition of the Getting the Deal Through Anti-Corruption Regulation Guide, a volume that provides international analysis for corporate counsel, cross-border legal practitioners and business people in the Philippines.
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.
In an interview with Jeffrey Paquin, he explores the nature of law department management. Using his experience, Paquin reflects on what the purpose of management is and highlights its practical aspects.
Provides a chief operations counsel's top ten law department leadership principles.
This article is a Gotham City street lighting project case study.
Eighth edition of the Getting the Deal Through Anti-Corruption Regulation Guide, a volume that provides international analysis for corporate counsel, cross-border legal practitioners and business people.
Today’s global economy, along with competition overseas, is making the collective bargaining process between companies and unions challenging. When an agreement that satisfies the union cannot be met, a strike can commence— often resulting in lengthy labor disputes. How do attorneys navigate the complex process of labor negations? This case study, highlighting an 18-month strike at Cognis Corp., sheds light on what your company might consider if you’re ever face-to-face with a picket line.
Auditors seem to be setting a higher standard in asking for assurances from counsel than the reasonable assurances that auditors themselves provide in their letters. Your task in conveying and interpreting this information is a critical one. Here is a guide to responding that walks the line between too much and not enough.
This InfoPAK (now known as an ACC Guide) provides a "question & answer" guide to corporate crime, fraud and investigations in Switzerland. This guide gives a high level overview of matters relating to corporate fraud, bribery and corruption, insider dealing and market abuse. In addition, it summarizes money laundering and terrorist financing, financial record keeping, due diligence, corporate liability, immunity and leniency, and whistleblowing.
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?
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