This is a sample anti-bribery and anti-corruption compliance policy.
Sample document retention policy with accompanying chart.
Map out key areas of compliance and risk management that can be addressed through effective contract management. Discuss contracting best practices that experienced in-house practitioners have developed to support compliance and risk management. Explore tips for performing a contract risk audit to identify contracts where additional language should address major risks. Identify best practices and tools that your peers use to analyze and address key risks posed by a proposed contract.
An update from the 2015 Guide for General Counsel, this resource seeks to support the General Counsel (GC) community by examining five areas of corporate sustainability. This guide provides practical tips and advice for implementing and executing your sustainability plans.
In the July issue of the ACC Observer, David Cambria shared his unique and broad perspective on legal operations' current trajectory. This column focuses on Cambria's career experience, which makes his insights worth contemplating.
Of course you’ve written a resume before, but what about a resume for a general counsel job? For a multinational position? For expert tips on how to fine-tune your resume, read more here.
This guide from Latham & Watkins and KPMG is designed to provide a roadmap to help navigate the financial statement requirements of the US federal securities laws.
In the beginning of this year 2023, the China trademark office, now known as âChina National Intellectual Property Administration,â released a draft of amendments on China trademark law which provide some drastic changes targeted at solving bad-faith filing issues. In addition, in the past 2 or 3 years after the implementation of the current Trademark Law (2019) by adding Article 4 prohibiting bad-faith filings with no real intent to use, not only trademark squatters but also many brand owners have received refusals based on Article 4 trademark applications, in particular the brand owners' defensive filing program. Considering such new practices may cause some frustration to brand owners in their brand protection in China, the presentation will share thoughts about the recent changes in practice and potential legislative changes and offer suggestions on the best practices around Article 4 refusals in China.
Speaker: Shuang Yu, Counsel, Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
This issue discusses class actions in Belgium and Europe, private enforcement of competition law in the EU, and more.
This QuickCounsel outlines the variety of regimes of liability applicable to statutory auditors, tax and legal counsels.
A guide to managing a corporate legal department. Provides guidance on managing employees, managing outside counsel, financial matters, records retention, and the use of metrics.
In this article, in-house counsel can learn more about investment in Japanese businesses and commercial relationships. This resource was published by Meritas in February 2018.
Columnist Bill Mordan explores how shooting testosterone levels with each success can influence male in-house counsel.
Through comparison with Stanley Milgram's famous psychological shock experiment at Yale University in the 1960s, Bill Mordan stresses the importance of going against the crowd and sticking to your guns as a means of being objective, as all in-house counsel must be.
The author discusses how in-house counsel should deal with a crisis situation.
Bill Mordan sends out an overdue thank you note to Carl D. Liggio, Sr., one of the first modern in-house attorneys and pioneer of the in-house bar.
A discussion on how the iPhone promotes succinct communication lines and cognitive fluency.
Examine the relationship between power, honesty and in-house counsel.
Read this 2011 Communicator Award-winning column!
Bill Mordan discusses how lawyers can benefit from a lesson in anticipatory service.
Many companies lack a formal process for contract administration. Many others have a contract process which is in need of updating or improvement. This program session will review the lifecycle of contracts and highlight ways to develop and improve a company’s formalized contracting process. This session will emphasize practical tips that can be used to implement a contract management system and enforce up-to-date contracting policies, including who should be responsible for running the process, how contracts should be routed within the organization, signing authority, electronic contract management systems, monitoring contract compliance, and record retention.
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