A company can maximize the value of its intellectual property by keeping current inventory and proper protection of its trademarks and copyrights. In addition, in order to strengthen partnerships and avoid legal sanctions, companies should keep a current inventory of third-party IP use. This article offers a step-by-step approach for companies looking to protect their IP assets.
This article discusses how varied experiences can be a benefit, but, if not explained coherently in an interview, they may become a resume liability. You have to be able to tell a good story about how your experiences have shaped you to be a thoughtful, thorough, and ethical business advisor.
Where should you focus your attention during your first weeks as the new in-house attorney? Pay a house call to your Human Resources and Payroll Departments. Read more. . .
This article addresses the new law regarding paying a worker of one sex less than the opposite sex for the same job by requiring equal pay for equal work.
Read Bob Feldman's thoughts on a crisp force majeure contract provision.
In Richard Susskind's latest book The End of Lawyers? Rethinking the Nature of Legal Services, he develops his theory that the new information age will ultimately render lawyers obsolete. This article analyzes and critiques this premise from the perspective of in-house counsel.
In this article, learn the consequences employers face when employees work in a high noise environment.
Within the context of the international and European proposals on the resolution of banking crises, the French government published a draft banking law that proposes to ring-fence certain speculative banking activities, and to introduce a number of measures for the prevention and resolution of banking crises under French law.
Discusses a checklist to verify and approve outside counsel bills by scrutinizing them for compliance with outside counsel retention policies.
Discusses how a CCO's task of implementing a new compliance and ethics program is like a cabinetmaker in that the program must fit seamlessly into the constantly shifting gaps in the corporate framework that they are supposed to fill.
This column discusses the Dow-Westbrook, Inc. v. Candlewood Equine Practice Case, exploring hold harmless provisions, opportunities for recovery of attorneys fees, and a holistic approach to risk allocation regarding potential future injury to living beings.
Job hunting can be difficult even for the most qualified candidate. Here are some insightful tips on how to turn an interview into a job offer.
Big Data refers to the collection, organization and analysis of expansive data pools. Conclusions drawn from Big Data are not infallible. The author explains how human bias can influence the interpretation of data sets.
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Tech Toolbox columnist Casey Flaherty opines on the preventable pain of proofreading for lawyers.
Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) has been steadily increasing ever since the Y2K scare. Learn about the origins of this trend and how it's impacting international legal affairs pertinent to your practice.
This article discusses the U.S. Supreme Court's unanimous June 29, 2023 decision on Groff v. DeJoy, clarifying employers’ obligations to accommodate employees’ religious practices.
Between legislation and major court decisions, the patent landscape has changed drastically over the last several years. In light of this, companies should look at their patent strategies holistically, from all angles, including prosecution, licensing, litigation, and post grant procedures and the interplay among them. For instance, patents must have claims with detectable infringement and be capable of withstanding validity challenges in different forums. To obtain patents like these, it is necessary to understand every step of patent prosecution, how patents are enforced in federal court, and how patents are defended at the US Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Likewise, companies facing litigation or post-grant challenges, such as inter partes reviews, need the technical knowledge of patent prosecution that attorneys who have prosecuted patents possess. This program will provide a view from the trenches with a number of war stories and perspectives from the US Patent and Trademark Office’s Silicon Valley office and in-house and outside counsel alike.
This article discusses whether the United States Safe Harbor framework provides an adequate level of protection for European Union businesses that transfer personal data to U.S. companies.
This guide is part of the Lex Mundi Guides to Doing Business series which provides general information about legal and business infrastructures in jurisdictions around the world.
The CMS Guide to Shareholder Litigation (CMS Guide) aims to give an overview of the most important civil actions that shareholders can use to exercise their shareholder rights in The Netherlands.
This article discusses the purpose of the National Energy Retail Law (NERL) in Australia.
This article accounts for major changes in Intellectual Property (IP) law—addressing both COVID-related and unrelated changes. This article also provides practical guidance when addressing these types of issues, and include resources for further reading.
The Apostille Convention facilitates the use of public documents abroad through the use of a simplified one-step process, the apostillisation. This article compares the simplified process under the Act with the current procedure for the authentication and legalisation of public documents for recognition outside of Singapore. The latter will remain applicable for countries that are not signatories to the Apostille Convention.
On 20 October 2011, the European Commission proposed a new directive on criminal sanctions for insider dealing and market manipulation. This proposal was approved by the European Parliament on 4 February 2014. In this legal alert, we outline the main changes.
This is a checklist for Product Recall: how to be ready, problem solving and aftermath.
Recent rulings in federal and provincial courts have taken a tougher line against counterfeiters. One case involves Adobe Systems, Microsoft and Rosetta Stone; this article reviews that case as well as others that deal with piracy.
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