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A great legal department is like a car: It’s an important investment that requires regular maintenance. Similarly, when you invest in your paralegals and other legal professionals, it’s like giving your in-house team a tune-up. Learn how to hire and develop in-house legal professionals who will keep your department running smoothly.
This short article provides ten tips to help in-house counsel in the United States manage their company's risk when interacting with former employees.
Although it might not be the document most commonly on the minds of nonprofit directors, officers or staff, bylaws form the backbone of governance for nonprofit organizations; they are a very important document. This article covers some of the most important things to remember when drafting bylaws.
This Top Ten provides some hints an investor and in-house counsel should keep in mind when doing business and dealing wtih Value Added Tax (VAT) in Slovakia.
ACC's International Practice Almanac (IPA) is a unique and incredibly valuable tool, providing you with guidance on the crucial questions you need to answer before engaging in or retaining legal services in countries around the globe. Search the rules of practice, professional responsibility, bar regulation and privilege protection by country. IPA covers the regulation of the practice of law in these countries, including the US states and territories, the provinces of Canada, the member states of the EU, and a number of Asian/Pacific Rim jurisdictions.
This guide provides an overview of the important issues involved in the financing of real estate projects, including such topics as the method for creating a security interest or lien on real property, interest rate limitations, and licensing requirements for lenders in each jurisdiction.
Because in-house counsel are often legal generalists, the need for someone with specialized experience may often arise in the law department. James R. Buckley has had to venture into the outside counsel world to find talent to assist Lockheed Martin in a few legal matters. Here are some tips and insights into working with outside counsel and cultivating relationships with outside counsel.
This is a sample company blogging and comment policy.
This is a sample standard lease agreement.
This article describes arbitration in the UAE, specifically, terms of reference, enforcing arbitration awards, and challenging an arbitration.
Looking for ways to move forward in your career? In this article, learn how to define your own success and what you need to succeed in your career.
When Christine Ho and her team at Confluent began to consider a CLM implementation, her biggest fear was that they would go through a long, painful, drawn-out process and end up overpromising and under-delivering on the potential for success we knew was possible. In this article, she's outlined a few of the lessons they learned along the way in the hopes that they can inspire and assist other Legal Ops teams going through this exciting but challenging process.
A presentation giving an international perspective on privacy law.
This is a sample company employment handbook.
View checklists on building a law department, in the materials from this presentation by in-house counsel.
The article provides a brief overview of open finance, a practice that allows third party service providers access to consumers’ financial data from banks and financial institutions using secure application programming interfaces (APIs).
These are the top US healthcare predictions for 2020 and beyond.
This article shows how employers should keep abreast of the updates on Employment Law and take more caution when handling employees’ dismissal matters. (Hong Kong)
A sample compliance helpline policy that establishes a confidential means for employees or other persons to communicate to management any concerns that they may have regarding compliance with laws, regulations, policies or the company code of conduct.
This article discusses the judgments recently passed by several European courts in cases that involve age discrimination.
This is a sample company employee handbook.
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