This brief article reviews the legal requirements underpinning minutes to provide a foundation for in-house counsel when deciding which best practices to adopt in the United States.
This Top Ten addresses how activist investors have been utilizing the new inter partes review (IPR) process from the American Invents Act (AIA) to put pressure on stock prices of public companies that heavily rely on patent protection.
This article discusses how President Biden's executive order on artificial intelligence impacts employers.
Over the last 50 years, the word sex has been defined in strict biological terms, to sex stereotyping, and now to sexual orientation. It is doubtful that Judge Smith, as the senator was known, had any idea that sex discrimination would over time encompass discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) employees.
702 - Workplace Law Training: A Key Affirmative Defense for Small Law Departments
The ability to effectively manage outside counsel is essential to the success of in-house lawyers. Learn tips on selecting, evaluating, comparing, and retaining the outside counsel that best suit the organizational needs of your company. Develop lists of providers and criteria for preferred legal service providers and specialized firms, implement alternative billing models, and use legal project and process management techniques with your outside counsel to streamline your engagements.
Sometimes, there is a disconnect between certain truths patent attorneys<br />hold dear and what corporate counsel understand about patents. This article aims to close those gaps.
The articles in this Out In Front include: Going Global: IT Systems Legal Health Check Part 2, Shoveling Smoke: The Flip Side of Client Relations, Business Ethics: Carrots & Sticks and Contractual Cogitator: The Sweet and Sour of a Deal in Steel.
Panama is a premier location. Whether traveling on commercial flights or by cruise ship, it is easily accessible to visitors from all over the world. A tax system that supports business start-ups and ship registrations makes the country especially attractive to foreign businesses.
This article looks at the types of software copyright claims commonly brought against financial institutions before the English Courts and the factual scenarios that give rise to them. It also provides practical tips on how to avoid and deal with such claims.
Without complicated stimulus bills or other governmental prodding of their economies, China and India stand to become the collective antithesis of American recession. How will their free markets play a part in the rebuilding of global finance? Readers of this article will better understand the present and predicted standings of these potential powerhouses.
This InfoPAK provides essential legal and practical advice about cloud computing and its increasing use in the health care industry. It explores in depth the primary legal risks associated with hosting and accessing clinical data in the cloud computing environment, including the privacy and security issues associated with the use of cloud technology. Also included in this InfoPAK is a comprehensive discussion of cloud computing contracting issues, strategies for successfully negotiating cloud agreements, and sample contract provisions for “best practice” solutions. This InfoPAK also provides valuable checklists and tools to guide health care organizations in negotiating cloud computing agreements.
Like many others, Spain has been hit hard by the global economic downturn. In the wake of domestic real estate crashes and international financial crises, Spain has restructured its economy and remains one of the most open and diverse in Europe. Learn more about what this means from an international investment perspective.
In-house counsel risk losing attorney-client privilege because of technicalities existing in state registration rules. Gucci America, Inc. v. Guess?, Inc. illustrates this scenario — vaguely worded qualifications cost one company its counsel and one employee his career. read this article to learn how and why you might run the risk of losing your privilege.
Your initial reaction to the offer of an international assignment will probably be excitement — and understandably so. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity through which you can expand your knowledge, experience and personal value. However, take a minute to think about the logistics — personally and professionally — before you book your flight.
Although quite common in the United States, background checks pose a number of complex legal and social issues for international entities. Data privacy laws vary widely from country to country, and understanding local custom and practice is critical to building an international check program. Find out how to conduct background checks legally and effectively while using the results to make employment decisions.
Litigation is inevitable for many businesses. For small- to medium-sized companies without a litigation department, the small legal team must strategize how to proceed with or without outside help or running into conflict of interest.
Getting the Deal Through is delighted to publish the ninth edition of Arbitration, a volume in our 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.
Before you can win an international dispute, you have to prove that the rules you abide by count. Learn the provisions and procedural rules that govern Mexican Law, and how to show the meaning, scope and applicability of your own law in a Mexican Court.
This InfoPAK (now known as ACC Guides) provides a high level overview of the domestic mining sector, its regulatory structure and ownership, the environment and health and safety. It covers foreign ownership and tax issues ans proposals for reform in Chile.
It has become a recent trend for law enforcement agencies to apply to the courts for an order to compel a communication device or software manufacturer to create solutions for the decryption of encrypted communications. This article considers the legal position for law enforcement agencies in Hong Kong availing of the courts in order to acquire decrypted communications.
This article is related to employers in Hong Kong who are subject to different kinds of obligation under various employment related legislations.
The article covers familiar territory such as the enforcement benefits of arbitration, the neutrality it offers, the fact that it is more confidential than litigation and the finality of arbitration. It should be of particular interest to anyone new to arbitration and dispute resolution in general.
As organizations increasingly consider moving data to the cloud, they seek to protect the security, privacy and privilege of this data while managing related risks. This session will include interactive exercises and a simulated negotiation to examine the requirements of corporate, governmental and international data owners for the management and protection of data hosted in the cloud. The panel will offer strategies for negotiating cloud contracts from both provider and customer perspectives.
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