Getting the Deal Through is delighted to publish the ninth edition of Arbitration, a volume in its series of annual reports, which provide international analysis in key areas of law and policy for corporate counsel, cross-border legal practitioners and business people. This chapter focuses on arbitration in Angola.
Understand the global legal and regulatory landscape of data privacy, specifically how it relates to the transfer of data across borders; discuss the role of the in-house attorney as a privacy professional; learn the valuable role the information security officer plays in developing and maintaining data privacy, and the importance of creating a cooperative relationship; understand which components of the data protection umbrella are the domain of the info security team (tech) and which are the domain of the data privacy team (legal); and Learn to assess the risks of your current data privacy protocols.
In this guide, explore what corporate sustainability means, and practical guidance on how General Counsel and support and lead corporate sustainability efforts.
The Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA) changed the rules of class action lawsuits to alleviate problems with forum-shopping and limit the number of interstate class action suits decided in state courts that have little, if any, connection to the case or controversy. But in the short term, CAFA could wind up making class action suits more protracted, and quite costly to corporate defendants. Read how to navigate the potholes, detours, pit stops, and dangerous curves of the statute.
Eighth edition of the Getting the Deal Through Anti-Corruption Regulation Guide, a volume that provides international analysis for corporate counsel, cross-border legal practitioners and business people.
The aim of this article is to provide guidance to in-house counsel on the assessment and management of key risks associated with partnership opportunities. As such, in-house counsel should be able to quickly identify the antitrust risks related to each type of partnership (joint R&D, joint purchasing, joint manufacturing and/or joint marketing), taking in account the evolution in 2010 and 2011 of the EU regulatory framework on cooperation among firms.
This Wisdom of the Crowd (ACC member discussion) addresses the adoption of a patent invention assignment agreement to protect a company's intellectual property, under US law. This resource was compiled from questions and responses posted on the forum of the Intellectual Property and Small Law Departments ACC Networks.*
The hype around Generative AI has contributed to a wave of interest in how to apply many forms of artificial intelligence, not just GenAI.
This article provides an overview of the technology concepts to consider when assessing legal workflow automation (WFA) tools as many providers are enhancing their solutions with AI.
This Leading Practices Profile, an update to ACC’s 2011 Crisis Management and the Role of In-House Lawyers: Company Leading Practices, features the leading business continuity and crisis management plans of four entities that share plan aspects, including core components, operational strategies, and lessons learned. The Profile also addresses the law departments’ role in prevention planning, training, risk assessment, crisis management, and continuity planning.
As legal situations are in a constant state of flux because of the topical nature of the issue mandatory national law and current case law should always be complied with when using the clauses.
This is a sample company employee handbook.
This Memorandum describes the proposed “package” of amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure which are now pending before the Supreme Court.
This is a list of select Morrison & Foerster publications on cases from the Supreme Court's 2014 term in the United States.
This Wisdom of the Crowd, compiled from questions and responses posted on the Small Law Departments eGroups, addresses possible activities to play with kids on Take Your Child To Work Day.
This brief resource (QuickCounsel) provides a brief overview of executor contracts in bankruptcy and the key issues they present.
This QuickCounsel discusses the strategic immigration planning that needs to happen for athletes who wish to remain in the United States after their playing days are over.
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