Indian employers, akin to their global peers, are increasingly realising the importance of a safe and amicable work-place - for all sexes. This requires a conscious policy directive aimed at preventing workplace harassment instances coupled with an institutional mechanism for redressal of complaints in a quick, transparent and just manner.

Preemptive clauses allow a person or entity to acquire priority shares of a company before they are transferred. Although preemptive clauses can be embedded directly into the bylaws, drafters may also insert them into shareholders' agreements. This QuickCounsel will review the pertinence, validity, and effectiveness of such preemptive clauses under French law.

This brief resource (Quick Counsel) reviews the regime of compensation of post contractual non-compete clauses in employment contracts, as well as in a number of commercial contracts. It focuses on the rules applicable in France, while highlighting some particularities in other European countries.

This QuickCounsel examines the differences in attorney-client privilege between the United States and the European Union, individual European countries, Canada, Brazil, Russia, India and China.

Learn the steps in-house counsel should when an employee requests a religious accommodation.

This Standard Document and the integrated drafting notes are for guidance in the preparation of a patent and know-how license agreement from the perspective of the licensor.

This is a sample indemnification agreement, under which the seller of a product agrees to indemnify the purchaser against third-party claims in connection with the merchandise, such as claims of copyright infringement. The sample is governed by the laws of California.

The respondents overwhelmingly question the integrity of their leaders and perhaps with good cause. The survey reveals that many employees would accept fraud and corruption in the work place in order to survive the current economic storm and indeed senior management are even more likely than rank and file to condone activities such as cash bribes and financial statement fraud.

An article covering the major myths of attorney-client privilege in the United States

A helpful checklist of the best attributes of savvy negotiators.

This is a sample form of facility guarantee.

Most management leaders think "committee" is a four-letter word. But in the case of patents, they're wrong. Assessing what that real value is takes more than the engineers and the lawyers, and that's where a patent committee comes in. Learn the best way to structure one and make it work for your company, and start reaping real rewards from your patent portfolio.

An inter partes review challenging the validity of a patent is normally barred after one year from service of a complaint. However, 35 USC § 315(b) says the time limit doesn’t apply to a motion to join, which has been interpreted to allow filing an IPR after one year with a motion to join the other IPR. The window for doing this is within one month of institution of the IPR to be joined (37 CFR § 42.122(b)). This situation often occurs in multi-case, multi-defendant litigation. The question then becomes should you join, and if so, how.

This is a sample marketing services agreement.

Companies defined as “foreign private issuers” enjoy a number of important advantages under special SEC rules and accommodations.

In four separate decisions, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) either affirmed findings of non-infringement or reversed findings of infringement. This article reports on those decisions, and specifically the issue of patent infringement and the importance of claim construction.

This policy brief will inform you on ESMA details for investors and general counsel alike.

The key to success is building real and lasting business relationships the old fashioned way—by earning them. And how do you do this? Janice Handler provides some ways she has learned.