This Wisdom of the Crowd, compiled from responses posted on the Small Law Department and IT, Privacy & eCommerce eGroups, addresses the reasonableness of shared assessment questionnaires.

An overview of doing business in Ontario, Canada. Includes a review of establishing a business in Canada, tax considerations, employment issues, and real estate issues.

Understand what comprises an effective compliance program and learn to implement and maintain effective monitoring mechanisms and audit plans, which pose ongoing challenges for in-house counsel whose compliance role is often just one of many.

The legal profession still has a long way to go toward building minority representation. The Corporate Legal Diversity Pipeline program gives attorneys a chance to increase diversity in the legal profession by reaching out to promising minority students while they're still in high school. Learn how you can get involved with minimal time and maximum impact.

This article discusses the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) publishing proposed new regulatory requirements for improving diversity and inclusion in Financial Services.

This ACC Guide provides an overview on trade secrets in the United States. It will explain the legal framework that in-house counsel can use to inform, protect, and provide guidance when dealing with trade secrets, intellectual property usage, and what you company might face in attempting to protect certain information.

This sample contract playbook includes alternative clauses, required approvals, and negotiation notes.

This Wisdom of the Crowd / Member discussion, addresses the concerns associated with a company allowing independent contractors to appear as representatives of the company at customer sites. This resource was compiled from questions and responses posted on the forum of the Employment & Labor Law ACC Network.

This Wisdom of the Crowd, compiled from questions and responses posted on the Employment & Labor Law Forum, addresses how to handle the situation when an employee fails to return the company's equipment.

Selected cases and materials related to forum selection.

In this article, global competition and antitrust rules with respect to intellectual property license agreements and supply/distribution agreements are examined.

Analysis of the nature of antitrust infringements, the rationale of company
liability for antitrust infringements, and the possible positive and possible negative effects of compliance programmes.

This case deals with the issue of employer email policies. Additionally, the case states that employees cannot expect that their communications won't be monitored. This essentially negates the ability of the employee to argue that the privilege should apply to emails that were sent between him and his own personal lawyer.

This case law is an order granting in part and denying in part Plaintiffs' motion for spoliation and discovery abuse sanctions.

This sample Covid policy was prepared in 2021, and it reflects the Executive Order (US) in place at that time.

STATEMENT OF THE ASSOCIATION OF CORPORATE COUNSEL (ACC)
BEFORE THE UNITED STATES SENTENCING COMMISSION
Testimony presented by Linda Madrid, 3/17/04

As we have learned, disaster can strike anywhere and at any time, and when it does, it is usually too late to plan for it. This program will focus on the role of a company’s legal department in the planning and execution of a successful crisis management program. This panel will contemplate what worked and what didn’t work at several companies following a natural or unexpected disaster, including unexpected challenges, contingency planning that was ineffective and things that were learned as a result of having to “work on the fly.”

Like it or not, numbers matter. This is particularly true in workforce affairs. What numbers? Pay, demographics and performance ratings, to name just a few. Knowing your organization’s numbers—and when to look at them, how to interpret them and what to do with them—can help you guide your organization proactively through events ranging from the routine administration of compensation and benefits to the most extraordinary corporate transaction. This session will cover best practices, including proactive pay equity studies, adverse impact analyses related to reorganizations and reductions in force, hiring and other employment actions. It also will highlight the latest statistical issues in litigation.

Partnering with universities is key to many research endeavors. Understanding the issues that both public and private universities encounter is crucial to ensuring great partnerships. This session will seek to address some of the recurring legal issues from the viewpoint of the universities and those organizations that contract with them.

All employers will be confronted with sickness absenteeism of employees at some stage. Under Dutch law, employees accrue holidays during sickness absence. However, in certain cases, (part of) the days the employees are absent due to illness can be deducted from holiday.

This article provides some tips for using your mobile device more safely and securely to help you achieve your financial goals.

This is a sample computer, email and voice mail usage policy.

These are guidelines to follow if you choose to identify yourself as a company employee or to discuss matters related to company business on the internet.

This Quick Overview will, first, present the European Union (EU) regulatory framework for e-invoicing, second, identify the different e-invoices recognized by EU countries and, third, study some legal issues related to cross-border e-invoices.