This article, developed by Latham & Watkins, covers the ruling in Crest v. Padilla I and II that found that the California Corporations Code Section 301.3 (SB 826) and Assembly Bill 979 (AB 979) were in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the California Constitution. Read the article to learn more.
In Brazil there is no law or statute specifically regulating the subcontracting of general services with third-party legal entities/individuals. Nor are there significant laws/regulations governing the transfer of undertakings. This lack of specific legislation results in an endless source of conflict and litigation involving companies, workers and authorities. Learn more about labour and employment issues related to “outsourcing” in Brazil.
ACC Comments to North Carolina re: Changes to Rule 5.5
On December 30, 2014, the president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, enacted the Decree N° 1.583 (the Decree) in the Official Gazette that establishes special protection against employment dismissal, also called “inamovilidad.”
This article summarizes the legislative framework for the protection of personally identifiable information (PII) in Spain.
This paper is a presentation by the ACC Houston Chapter on software audit.
The data protection bug bit India<br />largely due to the huge outsourcing business that India has seen in the<br />last two decades. This article contrasts the 1995 EU Directive, which aims to protect personal data and facilitate free movement of data, with the 2009 Indian DP Amendments, which regulate the collection and use of personal data.
The session will cover important recent US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) developments since the 2015 ACC Annual Meeting. The program will review significant enforcement actions and trends as well as recent SEC developments related to the Volcker Rule, shareholder proposals, and the rule for pay ratio disclosure. This program will also examine those sections of the Dodd-Frank Act that matter most to corporate and securities lawyers in their day-to-day practices, including providing advice to management and board members. The session will review the network of regulations that have been adopted pursuant to those sections and report on the status of regulations not yet adopted by the SEC. This will be a fast-moving program; come equipped with a working knowledge of the Securities Exchange Acts of 1933 and1934.
This article addresses how the management of a company has to consult the works council with respect to a number of important decisions.
Situated in the heart of Europe, Switzerland is a top location for data centers and cloud services. In Switzerland, privacy and data protection are respected both by law and in practice. Learn more about why Switzerland is such an attractive location.
This article shows how reasonableness and fairness play a crucial and special role in Dutch law.
A white paper addressing whistleblower protection and the emerging law of retaliatory discharge of in-house counsel.
This is a sample industrial lease agreement for the state of Delaware.
This guide highlights the fact that there is currently significant variation in pension provision throughout Europe, suggesting homogenisation, for the moment at least, remains some distance away.
Colombia is a democratic nation that bases its real estate sector activity under the principle of respect for property rights, which are limited in accordance with the Constitution of 1991, the law and the prevalence of the common good. Colombia has developed local powers and responsibilities to regulate land use and its development for the purpose of political centralization and administrative decentralization. Learn more about the authority the government has over the management and use of land, particularly as it relates to environmental obligations and rural development.
This article describes how in case of an attack by hackers or accidental loss of personal data, companies can still keep calm and take the appropriate actions in order to mitigate the loss and damage.
A dizzying array of US state and federal laws address consumer protection, and any number of state and federal agencies have authority to investigate alleged consumer-protection violations and initiate enforcement actions.
This sample follows daily progress on an employee's projects.
This article explains that UAE laws on Personal guarantee are slightly peculiar and Sharia Principles are inherent in its application at the courts.
This resource contains perceptions of business-to-business arbitration by corporate counsel.
In his address to the Committee for Economic Development Australia, Chair Rod Sims announced the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s (ACCC) Compliance and Enforcement priorities for 2021. The ACCC’s priorities for 2021 are consistent with their 2020 update, but COVID-19’s impact has been taken into account, in addition to the various competition, consumer and aw reform matters.
Business leaders in the C-suite are awakening to the fact that aligning business strategy with intellectual property assets is critical to success. IP asset alignment is central to any strategic plan or initiative. In this session, faculty will role-play typical scenarios in which four strategic initiatives are issued from the C-suite (i.e.., competing in a technologically hot area, recovery from genericide with a withering brand, entry into a heavily patented market, treading through copyright issues for a content critical business model). Faculty will discuss how IP assets are part of the issue at hand, what legal options are available in order to implement the initiatives, and how the IP assets need to be positioned to ensure success.
Currently, in Germany, there have been increased controls of tobacco deliveries. In many cases, customs authorities seize the goods, initiate criminal investigations, and issue (sometimes) high tax bills against all parties involved (seller, forwarder, purchaser, and agent, if any).
Contract for the exchange of professional services. Governed by Mexican law. Written in English.
This paper summarizes this required knowledge, recognizing the global context in which most organizations now operate but cognizant of the fact that the corporate counsel involved will often have a North American perspective.
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has taken a notably more expansive approach to regulating non-union workplaces in recent years. This session will chart the sea change, providing an overview of the NLRB’s recent reach over non-union employers with a focus on the last two years of rulemaking and decisions. This will include poster requirements, “Quickie Election” rules, social media decisions and many other timely issues. Our panel of in-house experts will share practical compliance tips and strategies to keep your organizations safe in these troubled waters.
When a company hires an employee away from a competitor, alarms are likely to go off for the in-house counsel. The new employee may be on the up and up, but what happens if your competitor claims that they stole confidential, proprietary, and trade secret information––transferring it all through their email––and are now subpoenaing your company’s computers? Technological advances have made the transferring of such data easy for employees who move around so frequently and in-house attorneys need to know how to respond while protecting their company’s own confidential information.
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