Directors and officers need to be concerned with the terms and conditions of their company's D&O liability insurance. Company heads are demanding that in-house counsel ensure that the broadest coverage available is in place, and this article will help you review the scope of protection for your company.
This article recommends measures for you to use as you help your company address and successfully integrate cultural awareness into the policies and guidelines of U.S. multi-national corporations conducting business and operating entities in foreign countries.
The technology sector is no stranger to patent litigation, especially in the smartphone and tablet industry. The current Apple-Samsung dispute involves over 50 lawsuits in nine countries. This article considers the Apple-Samsung dispute and provides an alternative universe scenario: What would this litigation battle look like in international arbitration?
Recent court decisions are causing major concerns for employers who require a general release to be signed by employees as a precondition to receiving payments under a severance plan or negotiated separation agreement. This article attempts to describe the background of employment-related waivers and explores the court decisions affecting them.
This document includes sample business associate agreement provisions to help covered entities and business associates more easily comply with the business associate contract requirements.
Flip the coin for a change: what are your employment rights as in-house counsel? May in-house counsel sue the employer?
This is a sample employee handbook.
This is a sample capital stock purchase agreement.
Purchase Agreement (United Kingdom)
This session will discuss how in-house lawyers can use risk management principles (e.g. appetite, identification, qualification, treatment and monitoring) to negotiate contract terms and more effectively manage risks while progressing deals to closure. Topics to be addressed include hosting and consulting agreements, and other transactions in which risks can easily outweigh the compensation.
Many of us deal with compliance related to local governments and the politics that go along with it. Whether in connection with simple zoning and land use issues, massive public–private partnership deals or regional development agencies, a general counsel who ignores the impact of the local political environment does so at their company's peril. Knowledge of the law is one thing; being able to navigate the political waters is an entirely different one. In a mock public-hearing format using headlines and video from recent media, a diverse panel will conduct a highly interactive session to demonstrate the pitfalls of working with local government and offer practical solutions.
Leadership roles and career progression do not just happen. Successful businesses make succession planning a best practice for all managers. Learn how talent is assessed, the role of future needs, and how these items link to the overall business strategy in the planning process. Walk away with information that will help you become part of the succession plan.
Advice for working mothers considering a career break.
ACC Amicus Brief, Gillard v. AIG filed 4/27/10
Every year, thousands of companies are sued because their website or mobile app is inaccessible to people with disabilities, and thousands more are served web accessibility ADA demand letters. In this session, you will learn the best response strategy if your company has been sued or served a demand letter and how to ensure accessibility and compliance for the long term. Discover how to evaluate the credibility of your demand letter, best practices for how to respond, and must-have policies and procedures that will reduce your future legal risk.
A brief arguing that the advancement of legal fees is a legitimate and routine business practice.
804 How to Respond to a Government Investigation/Inquiry: The First 30 Days. This discussion covers important topics such as protecting applicable privileges, dealing with letters of investigation, and more.
In this article, global competition and antitrust rules with respect to intellectual property license agreements and supply/distribution agreements are examined.
Comparative advertising is no longer limited to high-profile television advertising involving soda brands, computer brands, mobile telephone carriers and cable versus satellite. It can be difficult to detect and police your competitors’ uses of your brand names in Google Adwords, metadata, hashtags, banner ads and countless other ways. This panel will explore the intersection of brand management, free speech, and free market competition through hypotheticals and case law updates. Attendees will walk away with a better game plan on how to detect, prevent and expeditiously address unauthorized use of their company’s brands on the Internet, as well as a better understanding of how to mitigate legally-allowed uses of their company’s brands by competitors.
This moderated talk show-style panel will share strategies designed to help 21st century general counsel cope with today’s increasingly complex legal and global environments. The program will address such critical skill sets as providing cogent cross-border legal advice without blowing the budget, building and managing a global legal team, communicating legal issues in a larger business context, evaluating and embracing risk and working seamlessly with the executive team and the board.
ACC submits letter to Supreme Court Rules Committee of Illinois
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This is a sample standard lease agreement.
Best practices for attorneys who are new to the in-house community.
Learn about key concerns and new issues affecting the world in 2020.
This article appeared in the Australian Corporate Lawyer Volume 30, Issue 1 - Autumn 2020
This is a sample non-compete agreement between a corporation and its employee.
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