A law firm lawyer is temporarily loaned to a corporate client through a secondment arrangement. The corporate law department benefits by being able to use the services of a skilled lawyer from a firm it trusts. For the law firm, placing one of its lawyers on a secondment assignment can help build the firm’s relationship with its client. Client and firm both share their observations in this article.
The dilemma: As general counsel, how do you become involved in the strategic development side of your company, while maintaining the neutrality necessary to deliver effective legal advice? To achieve balance, a tremendous degree of effort and discipline is required, and maintaining it is a continuous struggle. Read this article and boost your role as GC.
ABA Task Force on Attorney-Client Privilege concerning the Proposed Federal Rule of Evidence 502 Issues of Implied Waiver.
This sample policy describes how eligible employees are permitted to use certain of their personally-owned computing or mobile devices (“POMD”) for work.
This is a sample professional services agreement.
Discuss how and why regulators, such as the CFPB and the SEC, are mining big data, and how this trend can impact the financial industry. Learn what laws currently govern and impact big data, and what pitfalls to avoid when advising the business and making big data-related decisions. Understand what it means to be a "data broker” (for businesses that sell or analyze big data). Receive a checklist for essential big data policies, procedures and guidelines. Discuss the growing number of internet-connected wearables and industrial sensors, the questions they raise about data privacy, and the security of parties who aggregate, share, sell or rely upon this information.
More and more nonprofits are striving to have a global footprint. Expanding operations across borders poses unique challenges to US-based nonprofits. From opening and closing offices to moving assets, grantmaking, and managing data issues, this session will take a deeper look at the legal and business aspects of managing overseas operations.
This survey reports sheds light on in-house counsel concerns on the impact on attorney-client or legal professional privilege of using AI tools based on responses from 456 participants from all over the world.
The aim of this Guide is to provide you with basic information regarding the taxation of transactions taking place – or involving entities established – in a number of EMEA jurisdictions.
This Wisdom of the Crowd was compiled from the questions and responses posted on the Litigation eGroup addresses the definition of confidential information in a Non-Disclosure Agreement.
On March 5, 2013, the Brussels Court of Appeal issued a landmark judgment recognizing that, under Belgian law, legal advice rendered by in-house counsel (and related correspondence) benefits from a protection equivalent to legal privilege. The Judgment was given in a case opposing telecommunications incumbent Belgacom to the Belgian competition authority. Pursuing a long-time effort in defense of in-house counsel privilege, Cleary Gottlieb represented pro bono the Belgian Institute for Company Lawyers as intervener in support of Belgacom.
This is a sample computer, e-mail and internet usage policy.
This is a sample notice of privacy practices policy.
This sample policy covers employees who are permitted to use certain personally-owned mobile devices for work.
This directive was a desire to create appropriate means to ensure that judicial and extrajudicial documents to be served abroad shall be brought to the notice of the addressee in sufficient time.
This article is a white paper on data transfer to the U.S. and the effects derived from the judgment of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) regarding Safe Harbor.
In-house counsel are constantly called to manage the many challenges that come across their desks while remaining compliant in a scenario of ever increasing regulations. General Counsel and Chief Legal Officers from leading international companies will gather at this dedicated forum to share innovative and forward thinking ways to address their evolving roles. Come to this session if you would like to gain insights into the complexities and challenges some of your in-house colleagues are dealing with or if you would like comfort that you are not alone in tackling such matters.
Cloud-based solutions have revolutionised the way that business critical content is managed. While it excels at connecting people and devices to each other, the risks associated with this technology continue to surface. Increased data availability and improved performance remain the undeniable immediate opportunities but data security and privacy rules continue to be a constant concern for any user. This session will engage the audience in a lively thought exchange on this powerful technology capability.
In-house counsel working for businesses that hold consumer data should consider the impact of the new regime regarding Consumer Data Rights (CDR) on their business operations and how they should prepare for the new data privacy landscape.
This is a sample computer, e-mail and internet usage policy.
Recently, I caught up with a classmate from my alma mater, the National Law School, who was visiting London. The question we considered was: Would we have been better off going to Hogwarts rather than to law school?
Discusses available options when your company sees its stock price go down, then receives a class action alleging securities fraud, and it sounds like plaintiffs' counsel is getting, and using, confidential information from one of your employees—a corporate mole.
In the legal profession, communication has just as much to do with listening as it does with speaking, representing and decision-making. There's no set standard for how to be a great communicator, but this article highlights important techniques for communicating effectively.
Commercial Contract Series: Contractual Cyber Readiness - presentation held in Sydney 6 June 2017.
A company’s board of directors is responsible
for investigating allegations of wrongdoing by officers and employees of the company. However, sometimes it is a board member who ends up in the investigatory hot seat. This article examines the best practices companies should consider when investigating alleged board member misconduct.
This article discusses the basic principles and considerations to take into account when working in a different country from the personal experience of an American lawyer working in France.
Don Hughes, vice president and EMEA general counsel at Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), has a PhD in semiconductor physics from Cardiff University in Wales where he subsequently also gained a distinction in his law finals. In this interview he discusses the benefits of his dual degrees and the emerging markets in Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
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