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.
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.
This report developed by Womble Bond & Dickinson surveys nearly 200 executives based across the United States. This elite group – 62% of whom hold C-suite titles – comprised decision-makers from company leadership and key departments including information systems and information technology, privacy and security, legal and compliance, operations and finance, and marketing in response to states set to effect stricter requirements around consumer privacy rights in 2023. Check out this resource to view the full report and find out if companies are prepared to meet the looming updated guidelines.
News, Notes, and Datebook Information for November 2007
As corporate legal departments continue to focus on controlling costs, they are bringing more work in house and becoming more selective about when and how they work with outside counsel. Read this article to find out more.
This article discusses strategies to help ease the negative effects of stress on a lean legal team in the United States.
As the recession presses corporate legal departments to look for additional ways to control costs, one result has been a reassessment of the way work is allocated among in-house resources and outside counsel. According to a recently released white paper by Robert Half Legal, departments are monitoring budgets, bringing more work in-house and being
selective about the projects they assign to outside counsel. Departments are limiting use of outside counsel, but expecting more.
This article contains several lessons worth etching into your professional memory.
Learn tips for creating a plan to identify and prepare a future leader for succession purposes.
The following is a series of tips gathered from General Counsel running legal departments within international and multinational businesses.
This QuickCounsel presents how a company's reaction to a third-party patent licensing demand carries significant risks for the future and can also make a favorable outcome more or less likely.
A Third Circuit opinion concerning the proper operation of a corporate family's centralized in-house legal department, and delving into a variety of concepts related to the co-client (or joint-client) privilege, its exceptions, its scope, and a lawyer's ethical obligation. The Court explores the co-client (or joint-client) privilege, which applies when multiple clients hire the same counsel to represent them on a matter of common interest, and the community-of-interest (or common-interest) privilege, which comes into play when clients with separate attorneys share otherwise privileged information in order to coordinate their legal activities, as well as the adverse-litigation exception.
Competition authorities in Africa can be a significant factor in the decisions and plans of companies that depend on overseas markets for revenue growth and business expansion. Changing legal frameworks and the emergence of regional institutions are creating unprecedented layers of complexity and uncertainty for corporate decision makers, resulting in unforeseen hurdles, delayed plans and risks that directly impact the corporate strategy. Hear from a group of experts in the field how these changes can affect the ways you conduct business in Africa.
"the "Getting the Deal Through" reference guide for M&A professionals"
Learn best practices and receive actionable advice on compliance program benchmarking and monitoring, including: how to compile critical compliance program data to accurately assess and measure program effectiveness; key takeaways that can (and should) be gleaned from a benchmarking exercise; and using compliance software to establish and maintain a cost-efficient and effective compliance program (includes meeting the “Morgan Stanley” defense). Learn how to design quantifiable, meaningful metrics that your Audit Committee and enforcement agencies will understand and appreciate. Discuss the criteria you should be benchmarking your program against, as well as the key monitoring priorities. Learn how to collect the data and begin using it to improve your compliance program.
This is a sample purchase agreement where the Supplier has agreed to supply and install and the Purchaser has agreed to purchase, certain tooling and equipment for the manufacture of the product.
In the past few years, there have been headline-grabbing government investigations of foreign companies in the European Union (EU) and China. A number of these investigations relate to anti-trust, anti-bribery and corruption matters. It is critical for the legal departments of companies operating in the EU and China to be prepared for these sorts of investigations, ensuring that the business can react quickly and deal successfully with the government inquiry at a very tense and stressful time. The panel will look at the reasons for government investigations in the EU and China, what in-house counsel need to do to prepare their companies for the possibility of a government investigation (including the dreaded dawn raid) and provide practical tips for dealing with government investigations in the EU and China.
"the "Getting the Deal Through" reference guide for M&A professionals"
Outlines examples of the tolerated practices that invite the kind of self-dealing and corrupt practices by corporate directors and officers and provides corporate governance practices that will maximize the risk of costly and crippling corporate scandals.
This is a sample non-compete agreement between a company and seller.
What do you do when a co-worker asks for legal advice? Over time, the author has developed a practical approach which is detailed in this article.
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