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ACC Amicus Brief Schoenefeld v. Schneiderman

Read Todd Silberman's insights on the balance between work and life. Do we live to work or work to live?

Despite the CLO’s best efforts, Legal is almost always viewed as a cost center within the corporation. What are the most effective ways that you as a CLO can continuously prove your value to the company, what metrics do you use to do it, and how do you get the company to see the cost savings that result from early and regular consultation with Legal?

This is a sample personnel policy concerning corporate credit card use.

Honest performance reviews are the only way your employees can make reasoned decisions about their future lives and careers.

Columnist James Wong discusses the benefits to becoming an adjunct professor.

Overview of issues related to social media's use in corporate communication. Includes guidance on creating a social media policy.

This sample is an executive summary of a contract policy.

Those baby boomers just won't quit! Working, that is. What challenges face companies wanting to employ older workers? Some of the hurdles include planning for employees who want flexible schedules to meet family demands, as well as financial concerns such as social security earnings limitations.

How to get the most out of your battery life (and what to do with it when it's gone to the big recycling center in the sky).

This must-read article provides an outline as to how to best handle IP assets.

Instead of allowing good to be good enough, use these tips to start every day with purpose and to live a more productive life.

Discusses how medical leave situations must be analyzed on a case-by-case basis and consider the ADA and state discrimination laws, as well as the FMLA. Also includes a checklist of considerations.

Best practices and guideline review and development template

This CLO Perspective highlights some of the technology, tools and practices Christopher Barnard, General Counsel for Coca-Cola Europe, implements within his virtual legal team to help them stay connected, and provides insights on how the team uses technology to provide productive and efficient legal services for their corporate client.

This case law is about five Native Americans who wanted the Redskins trademarks cancelled, consisting in whole or in part of the term REDSKINS for professional football-related services on the ground that the registrations were obtained contrary to Section 2(a), 15 U.S.C. § 1052(a), which prohibits registration of marks that may disparage persons or bring them into contempt or disrepute.

In-house counsel are encouraged to do more with less, but how does that mantra work with dual roles? As with so many factors at play in the legal world, it’s complicated.

This is a checklist of state by state driving records backgrounds.

This publication has been prepared to provide an overview to foreign investors and business people who have an interest in doing business in Honduras.

On Feb. 5, 2013, broad amendments to the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act (CFPOA) were tabled in the Senate through Bill S-14. This article addresses the six major changes to the CFPOA that will result if Bill S-14 is enacted into law as presently drafted.

In this column, the author makes three suggestions for adding value to your small law department.

Known colloquially as “slurp,” a Strategic Long Range Plan (SLRP) helps employees take the enterprise’s major objectives and develop strategies to advance each one.

This pamphlet answers questions often asked by people who think that they have suffered discrimination in employment under US law. It describes what the law covers, how to file a complaint, and typical examples of employment discrimination.

Putting in place an effective whistleblowing mechanism is an important component of good corporate governance. This article discusses ten of the most common traps that companies can fall into when investigating whistleblowing allegations.

This article analyzes how a copyright infringement may occur in Tanzania, the remedies available for copyright infringement and the legal penalties incurred if the Copyright Act is violated.

Learn five steps to reduce cyber risks during the crisis resulting from Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Many foreign companies wish to conduct business in Qatar without establishing a presence of their own in the country. This article is a quick overview on what to be aware of when entering the Qatar market via a commercial agent.

Learn the consequences and obligations for both the French company and the foreign company and its employees when performance of certain services is subcontracted to a foreign company under a subcontracting agreement.