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Various types of intellectual property and how you can maximize its protection and enforceability.

Understand what comprises an effective compliance program and learn to implement and maintain effective monitoring mechanisms and audit plans, which pose ongoing challenges for in-house counsel whose compliance role is often just one of many.

The legal profession still has a long way to go toward building minority representation. The Corporate Legal Diversity Pipeline program gives attorneys a chance to increase diversity in the legal profession by reaching out to promising minority students while they're still in high school. Learn how you can get involved with minimal time and maximum impact.

This article discusses the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) publishing proposed new regulatory requirements for improving diversity and inclusion in Financial Services.

This Wisdom of the Crowd, compiled from responses posted on the Small Law Department and IT, Privacy & eCommerce eGroups, addresses the reasonableness of shared assessment questionnaires.

This sample contract playbook includes alternative clauses, required approvals, and negotiation notes.

Analysis of the nature of antitrust infringements, the rationale of company
liability for antitrust infringements, and the possible positive and possible negative effects of compliance programmes.

This sample Covid policy was prepared in 2021, and it reflects the Executive Order (US) in place at that time.

All employers will be confronted with sickness absenteeism of employees at some stage. Under Dutch law, employees accrue holidays during sickness absence. However, in certain cases, (part of) the days the employees are absent due to illness can be deducted from holiday.

This article provides some tips for using your mobile device more safely and securely to help you achieve your financial goals.

This is a sample computer, email and voice mail usage policy.

These are guidelines to follow if you choose to identify yourself as a company employee or to discuss matters related to company business on the internet.

Marijuana legalization is a hot topic across the United States, with enactment of both recreational and medical marijuana laws taking place at a rapid pace. Consequently, employers face the daunting task of not only staying abreast of the quick-changing landscape of marijuana laws, but also determining how to handle the myriad of issues that marijuana legalization presents to their workforces—including compliance with the marijuana statutes themselves, underlying disability issues with medical marijuana, safety concerns, and the interplay between marijuana and drug testing. Combine these issues with the difficulty employers face in recruiting and retaining employees, and it amounts to an increasingly complex challenge. This article will address ten challenges employers may confront when dealing with marijuana legalization laws.

This Quick Overview discusses how contractual freedom to choose the applicable law is the rule in Europe and how this rule is subject to restrictions with respect to consumer contracts.

This Quick Overview will, first, present the European Union (EU) regulatory framework for e-invoicing, second, identify the different e-invoices recognized by EU countries and, third, study some legal issues related to cross-border e-invoices.

This session explores the immediate impact of the implementation of the EU General data protection regulation including the harmonisation of regulator activity across Europe, how effective the "one-stop shop" format will be, Article 29 Working Party submissions and how to protect your business from the right to be forgotten.

What is an employee handbook? What is the point of it? What can be arranged by such a handbook? And how do you make sure that the employee handbook applies to all your employees?

Chairman’s Message: Operating Without a License?

This resource includes sample conflict minerals reporting questions that an organization can ask its suppliers.

In case you haven’t heard, diversity and inclusion are essential to corporate legal teams. How to go about building such a team, however, may not be quite as obvious. From interns to sponsorships, this article provides an effective strategy for growing diversity and inclusion in your law department.

On 22 January 2014 the European Commission adopted a Recommendation with non-binding minimum principles for shale gas instead of the binding Directive as initially sought. Read this article to find out more.

This sample Software as a Service (SaaS) Agreement describes the service and obligations between the provider and subscriber. It includes terms for copy restrictions, web/mobile sites, security, data retention, reports, and confidentiality.

Meta was fined €1.2 billion on May 22, 2023 by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) for breaching the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This article discusses some of the takeaways from the record-breaking fine.

A crowd controller is a person who is hired at a public place for keeping order in or about the public place. This article addresses the issue of whether or not the crowd controller should be licensed.

This is a sample RFP for IT services for a company committed to improvement of the environment through the integration of environmental performance considerations into the procurement process including planning, acquisition, use and disposal.

Need help advising nonlegal managers about the questions they should and -- more importantly -- shouldn’t ask job candidates? This article provides a handy checklist for them and a discussion of the relevant law for you.

From July 1, 2016, every Dutch company with a minimum of 50 employees is required to have a whistleblowers regulation - a procedure on how to deal with internal reporting of suspicions of wrongdoing within a company. This article outlines what the regulations must contain.