Read the interview with Stasia Kelly about the importance of managing a corporate crisis.
The challenge: do more, do it well, do it quickly, and keep costs down. This is a reality facing law departments today. This practice profile explores how nine companies are stepping up to this challenge. Learn about practices utilizing non-lawyer personnel at companies such as 3M Company, ConocoPhillips, DuPont, FMC Technologies, Inc., McDonald's Corporation, Monsanto Company, Southwest Airlines, and Starbucks Coffee Company.
This top ten shows how companies that design, manufacture, distribute, or sell consumer products are increasingly vulnerable to consumer fraud class action litigation.
En este artículo, exploraremos qué es un "prompt", cómo se usa, y compartiremos 10 consejos prácticos para obtener los mejores resultados. Además, te proporcionaremos un paso a paso sencillo para armar prompts ideales, específico para abogados en Argentina.
Best Practices in Risk Assessment - presentation held in Sydney 17 May 2018.
This article highlights key considerations for hospitals in evaluating, developing, and implementing an ASC transaction, with a focus on fraud and abuse considerations related to investing alongside physicians. It also highlights the type of regulatory analysis that providers and others contemplating transactions involving health care entities must consider and address.
This piece examines the increasingly common method of cyber-attacks to conduct “warfare” and diplomatic disruption in the modern world. Because of the threat cyber-attacks represent, the piece stresses the importance of Australia bolstering its cyber defense and countermeasures, so “potentially catastrophic impacts” are limited.
This due diligence search list is a checklist of areas and sources for a buyer to check in order to understand potential issues with respect to a business that is being purchased in Canada.
After a multinational acquisition has closed, in-house counsel still need to manage different legal systems and different employee rights and expectations. Developing and implementing a post-acquisition plan requires technical expertise and early involvement in the acquisition process. This article breaks down the phases for developing an effective integration plan.
This is a sample property management agreement.
This document is a sample law department policy statement for the employment of outside counsel.
This article analyzes data from the FTC’s and the DOJ’s review of mergers over thirty years, from 1981 through 2010, for correlations to shifts in political administration.
This Wisdom of the Crowd, compiled from responses posted on the Employment & Labor eGroup, addresses issues regarding treatment of employees who are on long-term disability ("LTD") leave.
So your CEO has finally recognized that the company needs a compliance program, and naturally turns to you, the lawyer. Where do you start? How do you determine that you've identified the compliance risks, complied with all the applicable laws and regulations, and adequately addressed the risks? This session will describe the essentials of a compliance program including risk assessments, policy development, communications, training, establishment of controls and monitoring and testing of controls. Presenters will offer firsthand experiences (some positive) and best practices, incorporating MRCP 3, A-C privilege, MRCP 1.16 and MRCP 1.13 for ethics.
This is a sample master license agreement for the state of Delaware.
A survey polling general counsels as to whom the general counsel the reported. Provides information regarding when the general counsel is more likely to report to the CEO, CFO, or President of the company.
Large companies with employees located across the country need to consider the dangers of “one- size-fits-all” covenants.
This article discusses patent transactions in the life sciences in Switzerland.
What legislation is applicable to insolvencies and reorganisations? What criteria are applied in your country to determine if a debtor is insolvent?
The following are ten findings, pulled from two surveys, reveal both surprising and not-so-surprising insights for General Counsels and their Compliance officers pertaining to Anti-Money Laundering and Compliance issues in the United States.
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