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This QuickCounsel discusses the strategic immigration planning that needs to happen for athletes who wish to remain in the United States after their playing days are over.

Lawyers must ensure that the client can recognize the "value" of the services rendered. To that end, it is useful to break "value" down into specific building blocks. A helpful construct revolves around identifying various qualities of legal service that clients desire in differing combinations, depending on the matter in question. This short ACC resource presents key tips and references to better understand such Value-Related Qualities (VRQs).

A brief overview of the Chinese law on employment contracts. Includes a review of the different types of employment arrangements, the peculiarities of each, and some issues to consider in termination, severance, and non-competition clauses.

This Wisdom of the Crowd, compiled from responses posted on theLitigation and Small Law Departments eGroups, addresses recommendations for in-house counsel asked to conduct litigation in-house without the assistance of outside counsel, including issues of bar admission within the United States.

This brief article provides an overview of the legal and practical steps for terminating an established business relationship in France.

This Quick Overview (QuickCounsel) discusses three strategies for advancing law firm diversity and inclusion.

This Quick Overview addresses how the Precision Medicine Initiative (the "PMI") allows targeted therapies to be deployed that are more likely to be efficacious, less likely to lead to adverse side effects, and, in many circumstances, more cost-effective for both the patient and society at large than current approaches to many different illnesses.

This QuickCounsel outlines the important considerations when drafting post-term non-compete clauses in the European Union.

This Quick Overview aims to provide company executives who are not tax professionals with a brief explanation of key tax points relevant to the transfer of patent assets in the United States.

This Quick Overview is intended to introduce the reader to the basic rules governing the assessment and collection of withdrawal liability and their application in certain situations in the United States.

This Quick Overview addresses the role of E-Discovery in developing information governance policies in the United States. Although many organizations are developing information governance practices to extract business value from their existing data, they are not simultaneously addressing the potential risks and costs associated with that data, particularly when the data is electronically stored.

This QuickCounsel outlines the variety of regimes of liability applicable to statutory auditors, tax and legal counsels.

This QuickCounsel reviews the threshold compliance issues for determining whether an organization is a government contractor in the United States and some of the legal implications for that designation.

This Quick Overview points to the importance of an employer understanding the difference between an employee and independent contractor in order to determine a company's tort liability in the United States.

This QuickCounsel provides tips for getting more value from your outside counsel.

This Quick Overview explains the federal law requirements for obtaining and maintaining tax-exempt status under Section 501(c)(3) of the United States tax code.

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 Quick Counsel explains the general provisions that limit some of the clauses that the franchise agreement may contain.

This quick overview will address the impact of the preliminary injunction issued in November 2016 by a US federal judge against the US Department of Labor, regarding overtime exemption rules. The QuickCounsel also addresses how businesses can adapt their actions.

Many employers have implemented education and employee disciplinary guidelines to address workplace violence in the United States. While both are important, they often fail to provide employees with tools that could prevent one of the root causes of workplace violence: impacts of early trauma.

Given the importance of tax litigation in Brazil and relative lack of materials about the subject, the present article, which will be developed in two parts, aims to present an overview on the main features of the federal administrative tax procedure in Brazil, its pitfalls and opportunities.

This QuickCounsel provides guidance on how legal departments can create in-house pro bono programs.

This QuickCounsel suggests strategies for evaluating employee requests to telecommute as an accommodation, as well as factors to consider when allowing employees to work from home in the United States.

Bulgarian legislation has a specific Law on Bank Bankruptcy (the "LBB") which in most of its aspects provides for specific rules derogating the bankruptcy rules for companies.

In the first part of this Quick Overview, we examined how the feedstock of industrial projects in the United States should be procured so as to enhance bankability. In this third and final part, we address the purchase of the project's future production and other considerations that may affect bankability.

In the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) citations can be deceptive. Even when the proposed penalty in the citation appears to be insignificant, the citation can still be end up being extremely costly. Employers should evaluate the potential financial impact the OSHA citation could have on their company, and from that evaluation, decide whether to challenge the citation or settle it on a reasonable basis. This article will outline the major issues that each employer should consider in evaluating the full financial impact of a citation upon the company.

Indian employers, akin to their global peers, are increasingly realising the importance of a safe and amicable work-place - for all sexes. This requires a conscious policy directive aimed at preventing workplace harassment instances coupled with an institutional mechanism for redressal of complaints in a quick, transparent and just manner.

Due to the potential of costly civil liability, employers should be proactive in preventing and responding to whistleblower retaliation claims. This Quick Overview will provide information as to create an encouraging, positive compliance culture, conducting effective investigations, and instituting some best practices to avoid and, if necessary, defend against claims of retaliation.

This QuickCounsel examines the predominant tests of privilege for in-house counsel in the United States, the risks involved with communicating with branch offices in other countries, and potential protective measures an attorney may take in order to prevent the discovery of communication between an in-house lawyer and his or her corporate client.

This QuickCounsel reviews the intersection of franchises and labor law in the European Union, with particular focus on French law.