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This guide covers common issues in restructuring and insolvency, including issues that arise when a company is in financial difficulties, restructuring options, insolvency procedures, and cross-border issues.

In his first article as the Career Path columnist, Mark Roellig relates the importance of not only learning from life's lessons, but also writing them down and tracking your progress throughout the years.

What lessons can be learned from rocket scientists on formulating an effective ethics and compliance program? Read this column to find out.

Elisa Garcia, executive vice president and general counsel of Office Depot, Inc., shares her daily routine.

The general counsel, vice president and chief compliance officer of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists shares her daily routine, including her penchant for music.

Gone are the days where being a great legal adviser was enough. Career Path Columnist Bjarne P. Tellmann presents the advantages that in-house counsel can gain in post-graduate education in business.

From the executive team to the human resources professionals to every employee in the company, ACC President and CEO Veta T. Richardson believes we all have a responsibility to be respectful not only to our companies’ policies and procedures, but on a basic level, to each other.

This article contains four tips to help ensure that you don’t trade career advancement opportunities for flexibility when telecommuting.

Usually, the biggest obstacle in enforcing the right to equal pay is that the employee does not know whether colleagues of the other sex – the Transparency Act focuses on sex, not gender – receive more pay.

This sample is a ten-point checklist for avoiding and resolving workplace conflict.

Overview of perfection and priority of security interests in Canada.

A panel of seasoned attorneys will examine the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and antitrust policies (drafting, implementation, etc.) in small law departments; and will address other policies companies should have in place from a general compliance standpoint.

Knowing the law is key to serving your clients. Knowing why people behave the way they do and your own strengths and weaknesses in dealing with them can make you successful. Research has shown that some of the very skills that make us technically competent as lawyers actually hurt our ability to work with other people well and move our careers forward. A panel of experts will tell you how to harness your emotional intelligence, how to measure it and how to improve it.

Media and security experts focus so much attention on hackers and external threats that companies have a false sense of reality. The more likely threat, and one that could cause damage on a larger scale is the insider — the individual who has been given clearance to enter the building, and access your IT system, products, and customers. This session will highlight why you should have a program to proactively identify and mitigate insider threats. It will focus on developing an awareness of the common types of insider threats; providing an understanding of the security risks posed by insiders to your company and customers; sharing several easy steps for building a program to detect and prevent insider threats; identifying the legal and privacy risks domestically and globally when developing and implementing a program; and discussing the global considerations when developing a program.

The US Supreme Court held in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, that the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion, overruling long-standing precedent in Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey. Since the Dobbs decision, trigger laws in 13 states have banned or will shortly ban abortions, and another 13 states are expected to follow suit. While trigger laws are being challenged in court, there is no question that many states will successfully ban, or severely curtail, abortions within their borders. Moreover, a number of those states would impose criminal penalties on abortion providers, pregnant people, and/or individuals or entities that “aid and abet” abortions. The Dobbs decision and states’ efforts to ban, curtail and/or criminalize abortions have created multiple legal issues that affect individuals and employers.

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Patent infringement lawsuits are unavoidably expensive, but there are alternatives to conventional cost-adding inclinations — adding an expert, taking one more deposition, or filing a sur-sur-reply. Explore five in-depth tips that will help you stay in your litigation budget and come home with a win.

A young lawyer drops a file on your desk: "We got him cold," he says. "Here are his emails to his lawyer—I bet he has admitted the sexual harassment in some emails to his attorney and once we read them, we can nail him good." But should you open and read them? Something makes you uneasy about reading those emails. Are you right to worry? Yes. While there are cases which would support your claim that the executive waived the attorney-client privilege by using company computers, especially in light of your company policy prohibiting using computers for personal use, the law in this area is neither mature nor settled. Proceed, as they say, at your peril.

The main purpose of a merger or a spin-off is an administrative reorganization. In Mexico, from a commercial standpoint, mergers and spin-offs are always considered an assignment of assets. However, from a tax perspective this may not always be the case. This issue is relevant to in-house counsel because it is important to avoid negative tax impacts in such operations.

This is a sample computer, email and internet usage policy.

Strategy is the word when it comes to approaching a quagmire of patent litigation. Regardless of the business or field of industry, it's the key to overcoming competition and protecting your market interests. Glean some food for legal thought on launching a successful global patent litigation.