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A sample chart of company compliance with corporate governance reforms. Topics include corporate governance, audit, accounting, and internal controls, and executive compensation. Includes the subject, a brief description of the section, company's current practice, and recommendation.

This is a sample software license agreement.

Difficulties often arise for applicants and assessment managers where an applicant is seeking to make changes to a development application or approval

California’s unique “toxic warning” law, Proposition 65, has been on<br />the books in the United States for 30 years, yet it continues to trap the unwary manufacturer and retailer and funnel millions of dollars to a cottage industry that seemingly exists for just one purpose: lining their pockets with your company’s hard-earned profits.

Facilitating a global exchange of personnel requires that in-house counsel understand the procedures involved in obtaining temporary employment authorization for foreign nationals. There is much more to the process than simply completing the appropriate form and submitting it to the proper authority.

Two years after amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure became part of the discovery process, in-house counsel have adjusted. There are, however, some lingering questions relevant to your company's legal hold process that should be addressed. Read the answers and applicable best practices to these questions!

In the modern age of data security, in-house counsel can no longer assume that all data is created equal. By prioritizing key target areas, in-house counsel can tailor cybersecurity measures to ensure the protection of the company’s most valuable data. In the pursuit of efficiency and security, it is essential to create a cybersecurity protocol that allocates the appropriate protections and upholds the ethics of the company.

Resolving trademark registration disputes through the US Patent and Trademark Office’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) can be a painstaking process. Although counsel have been slow to adopt them, better, more efficient methods exist. Read this article to learn about other options, including the Accelerated Case Resolution (ACR) procedure.

In this sampling of surveys, read about why ACC Docket is honored and what Canadian lawyers have pinpointed as the most pressing law issues.

This blog article shows that worker classification affects how you pay your federal income tax, social security and Medicare taxes, and how you file your tax return.

This article looks at a variety of approaches that organizations are adopting to
address current trends for attracting, developing and retaining a talented, diverse workforce.

This article seeks to answer the question: What is the most essential “thing” to an in-house small law department practitioner. Taking a cue from Olympic athletes, the author cites working on weaknesses, setting goals, and preparing for competition as important practices.

If you are employed by a public company, it's likely that your company will undergo an SEC enforcement investigation within the next five years. This article shows in-house counsel how to help guide their company through an SEC enforcement action.

This is a sample group sales event agreement where Group agrees that it will provide to Hotel information summarizing all events of a similar type to the one described in the Agreement that it holds between the date the Agreement is signed and the date of the Event described in the Agreement.

This sample annual meeting script contains an order of business outline, general rules of conduct, a sign-in sheet, and sample introductory remarks.

This is a sample group sales event agreement between a hotel and an organization.

This policy outlines the guidelines for delegating authority within a business entity to ensure efficient operations while maintaining fiscal and policy integrity.

To ensure that multinational corporations operate ethically, in-house counsel should pay heed to a number of guidelines, specifically the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. This article reviews the scope of the Guiding Principles, their potential implications, and how to put these recommendations into action.

A lawyer employed as in-house counsel is subject to the same professional and ethical obligations as any other lawyer. The only difference between lawyers in private practice and in-house lawyers is that the latter have only one client – the organisation by which they are employed.

Between now and 2030, the biopharma sector is expected to be rocked by a number of high-profile patent cliffs that are likely to reshape the market in potentially unpredictable ways. A “patent cliff” refers to the end of IP protection for a drug that has enjoyed market exclusivity since its launch.