This Standard Document and the integrated drafting notes are for guidance in the preparation of a patent and know-how license agreement from the perspective of the licensor.
After a decade of one ABA Section Committee that covered both Superfund and
Hazardous Waste, we decided to realign to better reflect the way practitioners have segmented
their practices. Thus, this is the maiden voyage of a new committee known as the Superfund and
Natural Resource Damages Litigation Committee. Note the emphasis on litigation. As we step
into the next phase of Superfund and NRD, we all expect the litigation to continue. This
committee is devoted to providing practical information, resources and tools to assist those
lawyers whose focus is in the Superfund and NRD areas.
This InfoPAK (now known as ACC Guides) provides a Q&A which gives a high level overview of the key practical issues including the level of activity and recent trends in the United Kingdom market.
As cross-border trade and investment continues to grow, so does the need for fair, neutral and efficient resolution of international commercial disputes. International arbitration has emerged as the principal dispute resolution method for such disputes, but has become hampered in recent years by increasing costs and delays. Various proposals have been made to improve the situation. Two of these have already gained traction, namely emergency arbitration and expedited arbitration;and three new proposals are now circulating, namely appeals from arbitral awards, Bilateral Arbitration Treaties, and Hybrid National Arbitration-Courts.
Corporate Counsel LSC Letter Including Initial Signatures
Discusses the importance of implementing and utilizing a distributorship and termination system in distributorship agreements.
This program will feature a roundtable discussion focusing on how to measure the effectiveness of the law department’s litigation spend and capture value. This presentation will give an inside look into how value-based decisions are evaluated (including metrics) and how they can affect a case. How do you evaluate your alternatives in conducting e-discovery, and how do you make it more efficient? Topics include in-sourcing vs. outsourcing and predictive coding.
The purpose of this comparative overview, covering 24 countries, is to provide employers with a comprehensive overview of each jurisdiction starting with the legal sources on salary and holiday pay, and includes an analysis of how income tax and social security contributions are calculated.
What happens when there is a conflict between different protected rights? Recently, a high-profile UK case gave employers some guidance.
Anti-cartel enforcement has evolved substantially in Europe in recent years and the EU Commission has consistently reaffirmed its position by punishing hard-core cartels and imposing record-level fines. Companies can manage cartel investigations by setting preventive internal checks and establishing an effective antitrust compliance policy and specific guidelines for employees. Are you ready for an unannounced dawn-raid inspection visit?
Catherine J. Moynihan, ACC’s senior director for legal management services, interviewed Brad Nielson, Shell’s general counsel for Global Litigation, about the company’s turn toward appropriate fee arrangements.
This article presents the full year of 2015 data and reflects recent developments related to proxy access in the United States.
This relatively short document responds to the increasingly frequent pleas made by practitioners for guidance on the ethical standards applicable to party representatives in international arbitration. But is it the solution everyone was hoping for?
This piece highlights the increasing pressure within Australia on companies to address the issue of climate change. In particular, it highlighted the amount of landmark climate change cases that have been issued in recent months to compel the government or specific directors and officers to compel action on climate change. Indeed, Australia is the second most active jurisdiction for climate change litigation, with the United States being first.
Comparative advertising is no longer limited to high-profile television advertising involving soda brands, computer brands, mobile telephone carriers and cable versus satellite. It can be difficult to detect and police your competitors’ uses of your brand names in Google Adwords, metadata, hashtags, banner ads and countless other ways. This panel will explore the intersection of brand management, free speech, and free market competition through hypotheticals and case law updates. Attendees will walk away with a better game plan on how to detect, prevent and expeditiously address unauthorized use of their company’s brands on the Internet, as well as a better understanding of how to mitigate legally-allowed uses of their company’s brands by competitors.
in this interview, Brad Nielson, Shell's general counsel for Global Litigation, discusses Shell's innovative, value-focused approach to litigation and matter/spend management, including pricing, training, and the use of project management tools not only to keep matters on track, but importantly, to prevent future litigation.
Implementing and managing alternative fee arrangements, particularly for non-litigation matters, can be tricky. Doing it right requires a detailed understanding of the components and how to implement Alternative Fee Arrangements (AFAs) in appropriate stages to successfully balance risk and reward for your legal department and outside counsel. Seasoned counsel will share what they’ve learned from creating AFAs across a large portfolio of legal work, so that you too can learn to create AFAs that are assured to bring value to your company. You will walk away with methods to score AFAs in real time. This program will also review how AFAs can be created so law firms view them more favorably than the billable hour model.
Byron L. Koepke, senior vice president and chief securities counsel of Avis Budget Group Inc., talks about what drew him to litigation, and how the Litigation Committee provides support to its members.
In September's edition of Business Ethics, Jim Nortz discusses whether legal officers should review fair wages at their companies.
This is a sample land purchase agreement.
A short article on the dominant purpose test, focused on the change in evidential burden on parties after the decision in Tchenguiz v. SFO.
This article lists five considerations that GCs take into account as they allocate resources across diverse corporate issues.
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