This guide addresses key labor and employment laws in a number of global jurisdictions. Items addressed include family/medical leave of absence, employee drug testing, equal employment opportunity/nondiscrimination, and legal obligations in regard to employee termination.
Based on responses from nearly 1,100 in-house counsel in 42 countries, the ACC Chief Legal Officers 2017 Survey offers legal departments, law firms, and other legal industry partners insights on the practices, trends, and changes in the CLO role. The 2017 report examines how CLOs source work in-house, to law firms, and to legal service providers. In addition, the report highlights plans and historical trends in hiring, staffing, and budgeting.
Este artículo argumenta que es hora de que la profesión legal abrace la IA no solo como un objeto de regulación, sino como una herramienta poderosa para mejorar la práctica diaria y mantener la relevancia en un mundo en constante evolución.
Guidance on mergers and acquisitions in Portugal. Includes warnings when dealing with M&A's, recent developments, and legal analysis of the underlying law.
This guide discusses the economic and financial framework, foreign investments incentives, formation of corporations, limited liability companies, branch offices, labor laws, taxes, immigration laws, distributors, dealers and agents in Paraguay.
This webcast provides listeners with an understanding of the significance of trade unions and work councils in Europe, and an overview of the influence and legislative practice that affects trade unions and work councils and therefore employers in European countries.
ACC's annual survey of global chief legal officers and general counsel.
This Wisdom of the Crowd, compiled from questions and responses posted on the Small Law Department eGroup and the WMACCA Chapter eGroup, addresses the issues of acquiring insurance for in-house counsel, specifically covering malpractice protection, insurance prices and policies and additional resources.
This article summarises the legislative framework for the protection of personally<br />identifiable information (PII).
In this article key questions are answered by leading practitioners regarding mergers and acquisitions.
A broad overview of EU data protection regulation, impact on business, application to cloud computing, and related contractual provisions.
In October 2013, for the first time in twenty years, the United States produced more crude oil than it imported. US oil and gas production is evolving rapidly. The prospect of an energy- independent United States will dramatically reshape domestic and foreign energy industries and reposition the United States as an energy exporter rather than an importer. This session will equip you to advise clients on the major regulatory developments emerging from this significant transformation, including regulations regarding shale oil and gas production, transportation and storage and liquified natural gas storage and export. The session will also touch on US and global views from a policy perspective, including the longer term implications for US energy policy and international trade and foreign policy—particularly considering recent developments in the Middle East.
This is supplemental bibliography for the session.
Selected cases and materials related to limitations on discovery.
Meaningfully bridging cultural divides requires more than taking a brief predeparture course in etiquette. Cultural education is a continuous process that often requires real attitudinal change, for which the payoff can be immense.
In the world of employment law, there are a number of privilege and professional responsibility issues facing in-house counsel. In order to prevent charges of misconduct, counsel should be familiar with the privilege and work product standards, as well as the Rules of Professional Conduct. Find out how knowing these standards not only avoids misconduct charges, but also allows in-house counsel to monitor the performance of outside attorneys.
This is sample software license agreement for Massachusetts.
This is a sample sales agreement where the Hotel agrees to hold the space listed in this agreement on a tentative basis.
The topic of value and cost effectiveness is a common one, but not a new one. There's often a disconnect between how firms bill for services (hourly) and how clients wish to pay for them (value). But there are tools available to counsel to make these two notions sync.
General counsel from leading companies in the United States and Europe came together at ACC's 2010 Annual Meeting during the General Counsel Roundtable, and mused about their evolving roles and how they fulfill their responsibilities. In an environment of increasing regulations, the roundtable stressed the importance of transparency, innovation and forward-thinking.
What you need to know about how the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Circuit City could affect the enforceability of your ADR clauses in employment disputes.
Employment and Labor Committee's Comments regarding the OFCCP's Proposed Systemic Compensation Discrimination and Self Evaluation Guidelines.
This is a sample group sales agreement between a hotel and an organization where the hotel agrees to hold the space listed in this agreement on a tentative basis until a specified date. If this agreement is not fully executed by Group and Hotel by the specified date, the Hotel will release the space.
This list is a detailed analysis of select commercial and non-commercial FAR and DFARS clauses.
This is a sample software subscription and services agreement.
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