Don't be daunted by the challenges that go along with making a transition. This article contains some tips for making the transition easier in the United States.
This article contains four tips for effective succession planning for your firm’s critical legal professionals.
This article provides tips to improve your communication skills.
This article gives tips on how to appropriately move on to a different job.
This is a checklist of healthcare resources.
Even if you've done your due diligence on your new company - spoken to current and former employees, read their website, asked good questions in the interview- sometimes the shine of a new job can come off right away. When you start to hear things like leaving early? or don't tell the Board can you articulate why things feel off? This TED-style talk will help you identify your core workplace values and how to stand up for them when the ship feels off course.
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.
With corporations today paying greater attention to their internal processes and procedures, it is an ideal time for legal departments to create and implement a legal department business plan. This article provides models and components for developing a legal department business plan.
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.
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.
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.
How does HIPAA's privacy rule affect in-house counsel?
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.
With corporate legal departments taking on broader responsibilities - and often more in-house work - it's critical that they make plans to ensure the transfer of professional and institutional knowledge to a new generation of leaders. Learn how from this article.
These tips will help you improve collaboration with your coworkers.
This checklist provides an outline of steps employers need to take when complying with the mandates under the Affordable Care Act.
This article contains tips that will help you to keep your spirits up and manage a challenging situation while preparing for better opportunities in the future.
In many management books, articles and seminars, the terms “coach,” “manager” and “leader” tend to be used interchangeably. But in reality, the words suggest very different approaches to interacting with and supervising staff.
On August 15, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)—in a bipartisan, 5-0 vote—issued a policy paper detailing its concerns with Certificates of Public Advantage (COPAs). Check out this article by Foley & Lardner article detailing the policy paper and the future of the FTC and COPAs.
A brief addressing the question of whether it is appropriate for the trier of fact to draw an adverse inference with respect to willful infringement when the attorney-client privilege and/or work product privilege is invoked by a defendant in an infringement suit.
An “earn-out” is popular way to bridge valuation gaps in merger and acquisition transactions. Often, they involve some dispute between the acquiring company and the management of the acquired company regarding the financial performance of the acquired business or perceived hindrances to running the acquired business to achieve the earn-out. This program will be valuable to both the in-house lawyer proactively drafting and negotiating an earn-out clause, as well as the in-house lawyer seeking to enforce or defend an earn-out clause in litigation or arbitration.
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.
This paper explores the approach taken by courts in Bermuda and other jurisdictions in connection with issues and questions regarding transfer of trusteeship.
This is a sample capital stock purchase agreement.
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