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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?

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 article summarises the legislative framework for the protection of personally<br />identifiable information (PII).

This is supplemental bibliography for the session.

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.

Purchase Agreement (United Kingdom)

A satellite network agreement between a Delaware limited liability company and a Dutch corporation. Includes as exhibits of coordination and inter-system coordination agreements.

This guide addresses key labor and employment laws in a number of jurisdictions.

This protocol was issued to establish a process for health care providers to voluntarily identify, disclose, and resolve instances of potential fraud involving the Federal health care programs (as defined in section 1128B(f) of the Social Security Act (the Act), 42 U.S.C. 1320a–7b(f)).

The purpose of this table is to: 1) list the countries in the European Union that have a comprehensive data protection law (columns 1 and 2); 2) summarize the notification and/or registration requirements with the competent data protection authority in these countries and explain where exemptions to notify/register may exist (columns 3 and 4); and 3) specify the countries where it is required to notify individuals about the collection and processing of their personal data (column 5).

John K. Villa discusses work product protection 25 years after Sporck v. Peil

Discusses U.K. discrimination laws, Italian labour law, and equal opportunity.

When you are trying to figure out whether to go to outside counsel for a legal opinion or to recommend that your company obtain UCC insurance, you need to consider several factors: what constitutes UCC insurance, comparison of typical legal opinions and UCC insurance coverage, multijurisdictional issues under the UCC, and cases requiring UCC insurance.

The Dow is wavering, stock prices are sinking, and consumer confidence is down. Take charge of your career now, to stop the sagging economy from eroding your options, and you may even find your career's perfect fit.

ACC and Everlaw conducted a survey of 373 in-house legal professionals in the United States to better understand the extent to which corporate legal departments are collaborating with other business units, how legal teams are collaborating with their law firms and other vendors, and how technology plays a role in enabling collaboration. The results reveal that although legal staff desire greater collaboration and there is a clear recognition of the benefits of doing so, there are impediments preventing legal teams from realizing that full potential.

A brief discussing the importance of the attorney-client privilege in the corporate context.

This article discusses India's rapidly evolving artificial intelligence ecosystem, including some key areas where AI is likely to have the greatest impact and strategies for in-house counsel.

This survey report aims to better understand the outside counsel selection process for litigation matters, the tools that departments are using for litigation workflows, the most common cost containment strategies, and how litigation needs are expected to change over time.

Learn key US data regarding how companies approach the challenge of adapting to and complying with the evolving privacy landscape, in this survey report by Womble Bond Dickinson.

2011 ACC Annual Meeting Session 101 materials which center on myths, solutions and insights for using value-based fee structures for litigation..

Three members of 2012 ACC Value Champions share their value initiatives, including program goals, results, lessons learned, collateral benefits and some of their key tools to manage outside counsel.

SEC Comment Letter re: Release 33-862

Study in understanding how companies are preparing for the launch of the UPC (Unified Patent Court) and its affects on businesses operating in Europe that needs to protect its technology.