This article offers practical guidance on recognizing an ethical dilemma or conflict when you're facing it, and gracefully navigating your way through it.
Provides how to develop and implement a international code of conduct. Includes steps to communicate and implement a global strategy. Also includes a comparison of international employment laws.
A study of Legal Entity Management structures, governance best practices, and challenges based on survey responses from 467 organizations covering 20 industries and all global regions.
The Private Security Officer (PSO) Selection and Training Guideline has been written for both proprietary and contract security but is not intended to cover all aspects of selection
and training criteria for private security officers. It is intended to set forth minimum criteria that regulating bodies and companies in the United States can use to assist in recommending legislation and policies for the selection and training of private security officers.
In this article, in-house counsel can learn more about investing in businesses based in India and developing commercial relationships. This resource was published by Meritas in February 2018.
EU data privacy laws make the collection of Electronically stored information (ESI) and its transfer out of Europe challenging. The session will begin with a brief update of U.S. case law focusing on cross-border discovery generally, and then turn to a discussion of Privacy by Design ("PbD"), which has become the gold standard for privacy protection in the 21st Century. This discussion will cover examples of how PbD has been operationalized and used to address the challenges presented by EU data privacy laws. The session will then cover Europe's acknowledgement of Canada's stringent privacy laws which make it a unique base for e-discovery collection, analysis and review. By collecting ESI from European employees into Canada, and then culling down/reviewing ESI in Canada to identify responsive email and documents, organization can minimize the amount of ESI for which they must obtain consent from employees for transfer to the U.S.
This profile and its attendant resources are written to help in-house counsel assess their emerging role in preventing corporate failures, the risks they face (personally and professionally) in representing the company/organization in that capacity, and protections available to in-house counsel in the in- house employment setting.
The increasing use of digital media outlets such as Netflix, Hulu and YouTube is on a crash course with the corporate world. Employees are engaged with digital technologies that play an ever-increasing role in their everyday lives, including in the workplace. How can you protect your organization from the impact of this new normal? What policies do others have in place? What ethical problems arise with the use of these outlets in the corporate space? This experienced panel representing the technology, financial services, and media industries will discuss the issues that impact compliance and IP in light of these developments. This interactive session will answer these important questions as well as provide the audience with real world examples aimed at helping in-house counsel address this important issue.
In this multi-jurisdictional guide, explore an overview of key legal issues, rules and developments regarding patents across a range of jurisdictions.
This check card is a printable resource with practical advice for the dos and don'ts of dealing with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
These two back-to-back sessions will discuss why successful project management is essential for innovative organizations. Participants will understand the primary characteristics of projects and the criteria for success and discuss how the environment, stakeholders, schedule, cost and quality requirements impact the definition of deliverables. Participants will determine the important stakeholders and communication plan for the project.
This sample outlines the guidelines to use when corporate blogging.
This guide addresses key labor and employment laws in a number of jurisdictions.
It's a misconception that you can use and not credit certain images on Wikipedia for your own use. This can lead to a violation of terms with the artist/uploader. Learn how to avoid this issue by adhering to the following guidelines.
Supply Chain Transparency and Liability for Commercial Lawyers - presentation held in Melbourne 2 March 2017.
While market research firms consistently predict spectacular growth in year-on-year spend on cloud-based technology, intellectual property issues in the cloud continue to be one of the "cloudiest" legal areas for customers and suppliers alike. In this alert the authors identify some of the possible IP hot spots (with a particular focus on UK copyright issues), and offer suggestions to mitigate risk in what is a very rapidly evolving area of law.
Sample form required for foreign entities acquire newly issued stock in Korea.
Use ten lessons drawn from corporate counsel scandals to do your job better.
The purpose of this research is to understand how organizations qualify and quantify the financial risk to their tangible and intangible assets in the event of a network privacy or security incident.
This article is a detailed account of the Affordable Care Act. The following materials were submitted on August 28, 2013. New regulations, guidance, FAQs, and announcements may be issued after August 28, 2013, which may alter the content of some of this article.
The aim of this article is to provide guidance to in-house counsel on the assessment and management of key risks associated with partnership opportunities. As such, in-house counsel should be able to quickly identify the antitrust risks related to each type of partnership (joint R&D, joint purchasing, joint manufacturing and/or joint marketing), taking in account the evolution in 2010 and 2011 of the EU regulatory framework on cooperation among firms.
Discusses how your corporation can contribute to political campaigns without running afoul of federal or local law.
To provide an organization for the promotion and the improvement of the common business and professional interests and responsibilities of attorneys who are engaged in the active practice of law on behalf of organizations in the private sector and who do not hold themselves out to the public for the practice of law. (ACCA’s bylaws) 1997 marks ACCA’s 15th anniversary. The story of ACCA’s founding commemorates the history of the organization and views from current leaders chart its future
This article takes you through the most important considerations confronting in-house counsel in a typical grand jury investigation, including how to preserve the attorney-client privilege at each step and ensure that employees are aware of their rights when dealing with the government, while avoiding any conduct that could be construed as obstruction of justice.
This survey addresses issues including staffing, departmental organization, hiring plans, cost accounting, expectations for the coming year, changes to the role of the CLO, managing outside counsel, and firm demographics. Additionally, the survey focused on the relationship of the CLOs and GCs with outside counsel through questions that explored alternative fee arrangements and challenges brought with the economic downturn.
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