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Docket Article
Publication Date: 08/01/2017
It is important for all in-house counsel to familiarize themselves with the unique opportunities and challenges of doing business and complying with legal requirements in Latin America.
… Docket Article Key Considerations for US Companies Conducting International Trade and Cross-Border Transactions in Latin America Aline V. Drucker Publication Date: 08/01/2017 It is important for all in-house counsel to familiarize …
Docket Article
Publication Date: 04/01/2016
The prudent employer should ensure that sexual orientation and gender identity are added as protected classes to their Equal Opportunity and harassment policies and that managers and employees are trained on such just like with any other type of harassment training.
… notion of “sex stereotyping” came to recognize instances in which an employee was discriminated against for not conforming to conventional gender roles. Further … to sex stereotyping, and now to sexual orientation. It is doubtful that Judge Smith, as the senator was known, had …
Docket Article
Publication Date: 04/01/2016
It’s no secret — businesses with highly engaged employees generally have elevated productivity and better financial results. But employee needs and expectations change with the times, and that has never been more apparent than in today’s workplace.
… Docket Article Millennial Engagement in the Workplace — Adjusting for a New Generation Colleen Cone Charla Bizios Steve … workforce. Attracting the top talent among this generation is going to be critical for businesses during the 21st …
Docket Article
Publication Date: 03/01/2016
This is the second part of a two-part article on the role of in-house counsel in enterprise risk management (ERM), specifically as to how we function in and around the “three lines of defense” model (3LD) that is providing much of today’s structural ERM framework.
… Docket Article Legal Assurance in the ERM Framework Richard Alleyne Joan Gentile Jonathan … Albinger Pete Maloney Publication Date: 03/01/2016 This is the second part of a two-part article on the role of … or a lawyer? You need both, but I’d rather have 10 lawyers for every statistician. — Nassim Taleb, statistician and …
Docket Article
Publication Date: 05/01/2016
It appears that everyone — law firm leaders and general counsels — view the lack of diversity as a serious problem in the legal field. However, the glacial pace of progress suggests the legal needs to find new and imaginative ways to foster diversity. Enter the Rooney Rule.
… counsels — view the lack of diversity as a serious problem in the legal field. However, the glacial pace of progress … The Rooney Rule was adopted by the NFL in 2003, named for Dan Rooney, Pittsburgh Steelers owner. Not a mandate . … their law firm counterparts, but data suggests that there is still much work to be done.* Corporate legal departments …
Docket Article
Publication Date: 05/01/2016
Getting a jumpstart on digesting these amendments is important to ensure your company’s litigation management processes, and that cost management procedures match the current state of the FRCP. This article summarizes the key changes from those amendments.
… Docket Article Civ. Pro. Revisited: Key Insights for In-house Counsel on the New Amendments to the Federal Rules … Getting a jumpstart on digesting these amendments is important to ensure your company’s litigation management …
Docket Article
Publication Date: 08/01/2016
The presidential election campaign in the United States has shone a light on Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) entered into by the United States and other countries.
… Free Trade Agreement Highlights Labor Violations in Oil and Sugar Industries in Colombia John Kloosterman … States and other countries. The general purpose of FTAs is to facilitate the movement of goods and services by … Commonly, these FTAs devote a “labor chapter” that calls for the state-parties to adhere to workers’ rights …
Docket Article
Publication Date: 04/01/2016
This article explores the enforceability of non-compete covenants and suggests some drafting guidelines to improve the chances of implementing valid and enforceable non-compete covenants.
… Docket Article Non-Compete Covenants In Latin American Jurisdictions — Enforceability Challenges … P.C. Workplace law in Latin American (LATAM) jurisdictions is notoriously complex. The law on the enforcement of … competition while the employment relationship exists. For example, in Brazil, Article 482 of the Labor Code …
Docket Article
Publication Date: 03/17/2021
In-house lawyers are well positioned to advocate for social responsibilities that will benefit their employers. Read about how ACC Australia joined the vanguard of the social justice movement by supporting a call for constitutional (and other) reforms to empower First Nations people.
… Lori Middlehurst Karen Iles Publication Date: 03/17/2021 In-house lawyers are well positioned to advocate for social responsibilities that will benefit their … , Government Source: ACC Docket … The March My Take Column is penned by the 2020 recipient of the Robert I. Townsend, …
Docket Article
Publication Date: 12/01/2016
This article discusses strategic considerations for FCPA compliance from the perspective of a non-controlling JV partner.
… 12/01/2016 This article discusses strategic considerations for FCPA compliance from the perspective of a non-controlling … FCPA accounting requirements, a non-controlling JV partner is held to a lesser standard than its majority holders so … a joint venture, due diligence processes should be put in place by each potential JV partner on its counterparty to …
Docket Article
Publication Date: 11/25/2019
As an in-house counsel, one of your key roles is to negotiate agreements that obligate your organization and counterparties for many years. After these agreements are signed, the true value of the agreement begins to accrue and the real work begins. To be a great in-house lawyer, you need to get out of your office and communicate key information about these agreements to your operations team.
… 11/25/2019 As an in-house counsel, one of your key roles is to negotiate agreements that obligate your organization and counterparties for many years. After these agreements are signed, the true … Docket … Art by F. P. Ardizzone.  fpaoloardizzone@gmail.com As an in-house counsel, one of your key roles is to …
Docket Article
Publication Date: 05/18/2020
In-house counsel are often the primary contact for negotiating certain types of contracts. However, in this role, you are not in charge of executing all the terms and commitments in each agreement. Agreements typically require many teams and departments to engage in or abstain from certain activities.
… 05/18/2020 In-house counsel are often the primary contact for negotiating certain types of contracts. However, in this … Docket … Art by F. P. Ardizzone.  fpaoloardizzone@gmail.com In-house counsel are often the primary contact for … Can your accounting team accept 63-day payment terms? Is your business development ready to give an exclusivity for
Docket Article
Publication Date: 03/03/2020
As an in-house lawyer based in Silicon Valley, one of the most popular agreements is the nondisclosure agreement (NDA) or confidentiality agreement. The latest trend for corporate offices is to mandate that all visitors, including the pizza delivery person, sign an NDA on a tablet computer before taking a step beyond the lobby.
… Sink IPs Neil Peretz Publication Date: 03/03/2020 As an in-house lawyer based in Silicon Valley, one of the most popular agreements is the nondisclosure agreement (NDA) or confidentiality agreement. The latest trend for corporate offices is to mandate that all visitors, …
Docket Article
Publication Date: 11/21/2018
How can professionals break into the blockchain industry? As someone who has made many career changes, here are the five steps that have guided my various career transitions, including my most recent pivot to blockchain.
… Docket … Recently I wrote about  blockchain opportunities for lawyers . I suppose it was an effective article, because … are listed or where a recent graduate can get started in the industry. Of course, I'm thrilled to see such … to answer. Besides the fact that the blockchain industry is nascent, and there is no singular place that conveniently …
Articles
Phil Strauss - senior corporate counsel, Adobe Systems Incorporated
04/01/2004

In many ways, when it comes to ecommerce, we as in-house lawyers are like first-time parents with infant clients. Although we and our children/clients are equally struggling with dramatic changes, the task of making the world safe for our little pumpkins falls to us.

Resource Details
Source: ACC Docket
Region: United States
… ago, when my first child, Tatiana, was born. Now, as she is growing and threaten- ing to walk, the “zone of danger” … be interesting . . . . The same goes for the corporate website: • Protect the outlets: you should work with IT to … Chairman, New-to-In-house Practice Network pstrauss@adobe.com Phil Strauss is senior corporate coun- sel at Adobe …
Docket Article
Publication Date: 09/29/2020
Finding the benefits for other departments gives you additional support when asking management for a legal tech tool. After all, a proactive legal department engaged in collaboration is perceived better than a reactive one. So, breakdown your silo and look for allies.
… Stuermer Publication Date: 09/29/2020 Finding the benefits for other departments gives you additional support when … tech tool. After all, a proactive legal department engaged in collaboration is perceived better than a reactive one. So, breakdown your …
Sample Forms, Policies, and Contracts
07/29/2017

This is a sample software license and services agreement.

Resource Details
Source: Resource Library
Region: United States
… Software License & Services Agreement July 29, 2017 This is a sample software license and services agreement. Resource … Software and Services") from and through the Vendor website ( http://www.vendor.com , https://app.vendor.com and/or other URLs designated by …
Articles
Wilbert Kapinga, Ofotsu A Tetteh-Kujorjie and Kamanga Kapinga, Mkono & Co Advocates
12/12/2014

Getting the Deal Through is delighted to<br />publish the ninth edition of Arbitration, a<br />volume in our series of annual reports,<br />which provide international analysis in<br />key areas of law and policy for corporate<br />counsel, cross-border legal practitioners and<br />business people.

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Interest Area: Commercial and Contracts
Source: Resource Library
Region: Tanzania
… & Co Advocates December 12, 2014 Getting the Deal Through is delighted to<br />publish the ninth edition of … international analysis in<br />key areas of law and policy for corporate<br />counsel, cross-border legal practitioners … Partners Von Wobeser y Sierra SC www.gettingthedealthrough.com 1 contents Arbitration 2014 contributing editors: Gerhard …
Articles
Carolina Posada Isaacs, María Alejandra Arboleda González and Diego Romero Cruz, Posse Herrera Ruiz
12/12/2014

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.

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Interest Area: Commercial and Contracts
Source: Resource Library
Region: Colombia
… Herrera Ruiz December 12, 2014 Getting the Deal Through is delighted to publish the ninth edition of Arbitration, a … international analysis in key areas of law and policy for corporate counsel, cross-border legal practitioners and … Partners Von Wobeser y Sierra SC www.gettingthedealthrough.com 1 contents Arbitration 2014 contributing editors: Gerhard …
Articles
Teresa T. Kennedy, Eva M. Kripalani and Elinora S. Mantovani
02/01/2004

Discusses the steps to take in order to have time, energy, an ethical lifestyle that has a place for both our work responsibilities and our duties to our communities and families, flexibility, and the ability to enjoy our lives. Includes what law departments can do and programs for overcoming obstacles to work-life balance.

Resource Details
Source: ACC Docket
Region: United States
… Articles Achieving Balance: A Recipe for High-quality Work Life for In-house Counsel Author Teresa … years ago by Russian playwright Maxim Gorky: “When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is … and Tennis Classic. She is available at teresa.kennedy@cox.com. Eva M. Kripalani is senior vice president, general …
Articles
Gregory H. Mathews, Kenneth B. Winer, Samuel J. Winer, Gregory R. Bruch
11/01/2003

If you are employed by a public company, it's likely that your company will undergo an SEC enforcement investigation within the next five years. This article shows in-house counsel how to help guide their company through an SEC enforcement action.

… address with a comment letter. See the sidebar on page 101 for an overview of the SEC Division of Enforcement. In the … investigation calls on the expertise and judgment of the com- pany’s general counsel, senior litigation counsel, and … the difficult days after the company has learned that it is the subject of an SEC enforcement action. REDUCING THE …
Articles
Marc Brotman, Tony Reeves
06/01/2005

Changes have been afoot in the EU's competition laws, with one of the most important being 25 member states now have the power to rule on all aspects of EU competition law, in to the national competition rules that each has at its disposal. It's no wonder in-house often feel that just when they achieve compliance in one jurisdiction, problems arise in others-much like Hercules when he battled the Hydra. Here is a guide to successfully conquering the multi-headed hydra while complying with EU competition laws.

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Source: ACC Docket
Region: European Union
… others-much like Hercules when he battled the Hydra. Here is a guide to successfully conquering the multi-headed hydra … most imp ortant cha nges is th at, in add ition to th e EU Com mission, t he 25 nation al compe tition aut horities ( … law, with the following changes: • The responsibility for enforcing Articles 81 and 82 is shared among all the …
Articles
Ronald F. Pol, J. Justin Hansen, and Richard I. Hansen
10/01/2003

This article looks at the conflict that can arise between in-house lawyers who are working hard on company business and a CEO who thinks of the lawyers as little more than a necessary evil and suggests methods to communicate with a CEO in terms that he or she will understand.

Resource Details
Source: ACC Docket
Region: United States
… a team of seven lawyers. I report to the CEO. The problem is that he’s always on our backs to add more value with fewer … We haven’t increased staff numbers in the legal department for five years, even though the company has nearly doubled in … practice that he started Lex Australia Pty Ltd, www.lex.com.au/, which provides desktop and web-based software …
Articles
Stuart N. Roth; Erich P. Rapp; Douglas A. Littlejohn
08/13/2003

Learn how companies responding to EPA claims under the Superfund statute can seek federal government contribution due to federal ownership of industrial facilities during World War II.

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Interest Area: Environmental
Source: ACC Docket
Region: United States
… of companies throughout America. If your company is paying these costs, then you may want to consider … Corporate Counsel Association. All rights reserved. For more information or to join ACCA, call 202.293.4103, ext. 360, or visit www.acca.com. September 2003 Legacy of history as a strategy for
Articles
Mariano Municoy, Moeller IP Advisors
11/04/2014

Patent enforcement proceedings in Argentina.

Resource Details
Interest Area: Intellectual Property
Source: Resource Library
Region: Argentina
… & Partners Vossius & Partner www.gettingthedealthrough.com 1 CONTENTS Patents 2014 Contributing editor: Frank L Bernstein Kenyon & Kenyon LLP Getting the Deal Through is delighted to publish the 11th edition of Patents, a volume … international analysis in key areas of law and policy for corporate counsel, cross-border legal practitioners and …
Articles
Yulan Kuo, Hsiaoling Fan and Charles Chen, Formosa Transnational, Attorneys at Law
11/04/2014
11 pages

Patent enforcement proceedings in Taiwan.

Resource Details
Interest Area: Intellectual Property
Source: Resource Library
Region: Taiwan
… & Partners Vossius & Partner www.gettingthedealthrough.com 1 CONTENTS Patents 2014 Contributing editor: Frank L Bernstein Kenyon & Kenyon LLP Getting the Deal Through is delighted to publish the 11th edition of Patents, a volume … international analysis in key areas of law and policy for corporate counsel, cross-border legal practitioners and …
Articles
Godwin Wangong’u and CG Mbugua, Mboya Wangong’u & Waiyaki Advocates
12/12/2014

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.

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Interest Area: Commercial and Contracts
Source: Resource Library
Region: Kenya
… Guide, a volume that provides international analysis for corporate counsel, cross-border legal practitioners and … Veirano Advogados CONTENTS www.gettingthedealthrough.com 1 Anti-Corruption Regulation 2014 Contributing editor: … Jr Miller & Chevalier Chartered Getting the Deal Through is delighted to publish the eighth edition of Anti-Corruption …
Articles
Natalija Perić and Frano Belohradsky, Mamić Perić Reberski Rimac
12/12/2014

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.

Resource Details
Interest Area: Commercial and Contracts
Source: Resource Library
Region: Croatia
… Reberski Rimac December 12, 2014 Getting the Deal Through is delighted to publish the ninth edition of Arbitration, a … international analysis in key areas of law and policy for corporate counsel, cross-border legal practitioners and … Partners Von Wobeser y Sierra SC www.gettingthedealthrough.com 1 contents Arbitration 2014 contributing editors: Gerhard …
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Agostinho Pereira de Miranda, Cláudia Leonardo and Jayr Fernandes, Miranda Correia Amendoeira & Associados
12/12/2014
11 pages

Getting the Deal Through is delighted to publish the ninth edition of Arbitration, a volume in its 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. This chapter focuses on arbitration in Angola.

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Interest Area: Commercial and Contracts
Source: Resource Library
Region: Angola
… December 12, 2014 11 pages Getting the Deal Through is delighted to publish the ninth edition of Arbitration, a … international analysis in key areas of law and policy for corporate counsel, cross-border legal practitioners and … Partners Von Wobeser y Sierra SC www.gettingthedealthrough.com 1 contents Arbitration 2014 contributing editors: Gerhard …
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Gerard Seijts, Jeffrey Gandz, Mary Crossan, Mark Reno
09/21/2015
10 pages

In this article, the authors propose an operational definition of character, outline a set of plain-language dimensions of character that they believe to be relevant to organizational leadership, present results from a survey relating these dimensions to leader performance and outcomes, and describe the practical implications for leader character development in organizations.

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Source: Resource Library
Collection: Leadership Skills
Region: Global
Audience: CLO / GC
… and outcomes, and describe the practical implications for leader character development in organizations. Resource … (2015) 44, 65—74 Available online at www.sciencedirect.com ScienceDirect jo u rn al h om ep ag e: ww w.elsdreds of … the actual use of character to three things. First, there is a great deal of ambiguity about what is meant by the word …
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