Given today's economic challenges, in-house counsel are forced to do more with less and have to watch the company’s bottom line, by approaching transactions, compliance matters and other legal projects with a practical and focused mind-set, befitting that of a project manager. Key project management skills can be adapted by in-house counsel to enhance efficiencies and improve results including team work, defining project goals and objectives, specifying tasks, identifying resource needs, developing budgets and timelines, and implementing controls to stay within a project's critical path. This session will discuss project management fundamentals and in-house counsel will explain how they have applied project management skills to their work. Practical tips and user-friendly techniques that attendees can immediately apply will be supplied.
Opposing counsel can sometimes forget to "scrub" an electronic document clean before sending it for others to view. However, stop and read this article before considering mining the metadata. Ethics rules protect even the forgetful.
This is a sample hotel banquet contract.
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 the Dubai International Arbitration Center (DIAC).
This is sample software license agreement for Massachusetts.
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.
Two of the globally significant patent-related events during the past year occurred in Europe and the United States, respectively.
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.
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.
This is a sample stock purchase agreement.
This is a sample guarantee agreement between a company as guarantor and a trust as guarantee trustee.
This is a sample company guarantee agreement.
This article details how international arbitration proceedings are governed in Switzerland.
Jack Richardson Oration. Speech delivered by Fiona McLeod SC, President, Law Council of Australia at the High Court of Australia, Canberra.
In this article, in-house counsel can learn more about investment in Hong Kong businesses and commercial relationships. This resource was published by Meritas in February 2018.
1 January 2014 saw the implementation of Basel III in the European Union (EU) via the Capital Requirements Directive IV (CRD IV) and the Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR). These twin pieces of regulatory reform represent the biggest change to capital requirements for financial institutions since the financial crisis. The combined reforms introduce new capital, leverage and liquidity requirements, whilst also introducing new concepts such as capital buffers and imposing regulatory frameworks on securitisations, derivatives trading and remuneration policies. Read this series of briefing papers on the impact of CRD IV and the CRR.
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