This Quick Overview seeks to clarify industrial property (a type of intellectual property) protection in Brazil , specifically the case of item I of Article 2 of Federal Statute 9279/96, related to the grant of patents of invention and utility models.
What legislation is applicable to insolvencies and reorganisations? What criteria are applied in your country to determine if a debtor is insolvent?
Understand the force majeure implications of the Ukraine conflict (and related sanctions) for contracts.
What legislation is applicable to insolvencies and reorganisations? What criteria are applied in your country to determine if a debtor is insolvent?
Being a procrastinator is not part of our true identity; it is only a habit we have when it comes to delaying work. But are you willing to break this routine, no matter how familiar it is?
Chinese people can be very indirect in expressing what they want. When you offer your Chinese guests tea, it is not unusual that they say no in the first instance and agree to have some when you ask them the second time.
Lead the Way Columnist Whitnie Wiley stresses the importance of being self-aware and intentional about the pursuit of your goals.
The key is to give yourself sufficient time between receiving the stimulus and choosing the response.
The Peter Principle, authored in 1969, is now out of print. But in this column, Bill Mordan re-examines the truths behind the theory which asserts that "in a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence."
An extensive network of professional contacts is one of the greatest career assets a corporate attorney can have. Most lawyers work hard to establish contacts, particularly in the early stages of their careers, but over time, many misuse their networks or forget about them altogether. To prevent this from happening, in-house lawyers need to be sure to avoid the most common mistakes even seasoned attorneys can make when it comes to the care and feeding of their networks.
The rules of civil procedure are once again being amended, this time to update them for document production in the digital age. Judge Shira A. Scheindlin talks about what the proposed changes will mean for in-house counsel. She also gives advice and her top ten tips on conducting e-discovery in the current murky shadow of Rule 26, to avoid garnering sanctions for inadvertently violating a discovery order, or worse yet charges of spoliation of evidence.
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What legislation is applicable to insolvencies and reorganisations? What criteria are applied in your country to determine if a debtor is insolvent?
This guide from Latham & Watkins and KPMG is designed to provide a roadmap to help navigate the financial statement requirements of the US federal securities laws.
In 2012, China's State Administration of Foreign Exchange promulgated the Circular on Further Improving and Adjusting Foreign Exchange Administrative Policies on Foreign Direct Investment (Circular No. 59). It replaces more than 30 approval requirements with simpler registration procedures, streamlines many administrative procedures for foreign exchange transactions and relaxes some restrictions on funds used for foreign direct investment (FDI). The changes resulting from it are reviewed in this article. <br />
Learn how to walk the line between your obligation to respond to document requests and your responsibility to protect company interests.
"To sharpen the saw," sometimes it's important to learn, play, and rest before tackling your to-do list.
Discuss the involvement of non-lawyers (e.g., paralegals) in contract review; Explore what contract approval processes your peers have in place; Discuss what systems your peers have in place to manage contracts’ life cycles from conclusion to termination; and Share and learn from your colleagues best practices on how a legal department can become a better facilitator in the contracting process within your organization.
This checklist will help you examined all the non-benefits considerations for the workplace in a Post-Roe world.
Learn about the importance of liquidators in Hong Kong and recent increased scrutiny of them in their courts.
Learn about Nigeria's legal treatment of employees who resign in anticipation of disciplinary proceedings.
Instead of pitting the generations against each other, Columnist Whitnie Wiley suggests that millennials, Gen-Xers, and baby boomers should try to understand one another.
This briefing considers the areas of the judgment that are likely to invite challenge on appeal and the practical points to take from the judgment on the assumption that it is upheld.
This is a sample contract review and approval policy.
What legislation is applicable to insolvencies and reorganisations? What criteria are applied in your country to determine if a debtor is insolvent?
This is a brief Legal Quick Hit Overview
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