This article speaks about how numerous lawyers practice at legal departments where supporting low-income communities through pro bono assistance is a core value.
A letter informing the recipient that it has access to an irrevocable "standby letter of credit". Includes form of sight draft and form of written statement.
April 2008- The Movers & Shakers
In an era where digital transformation is a necessity rather than a luxury, legal departments, regardless of size, are no exception. As the Paralegal for a brand accelerator of next-generation fashion brands, I've had the unique experience of steering our small legal department into the digital age of automation. Our journey has been both challenging and triumphant, filled with valuable lessons and significant milestones. Read more here.
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.
Check out ten important issues to take into consideration when renewing a business's insurance policies.
This is a sample packing and fulfillment agreement.
This sample contract playbook includes alternative clauses, required approvals, and negotiation notes.
This is supplemental bibliography for the session.
In-house lawyers are always searching for opportunities to streamline a process. Often, a streamlined process equates to efficiencies within the legal department and higher productivity of the in-house lawyers and paralegals. Read this article to find out more.
Mexico has many trusts that were created for foreigners to acquire and own real estate in the restricted zone (a strip of 50 kilometers – approximately 31 miles – along the coast, or 100 kilometers – approximately 62 miles – from the border). This article explains the process through which a foreigner names the person or persons who will replace him or her as trust beneficiary in the event of death.
This InfoPAK is intended to assist in-house counsel at public companies in addressing the issues that arise most frequently in connection with shareholder derivative litigation. It discusses litigating shareholder derivative lawsuits, responding to shareholder litigation demands and responding to shareholder books-and-records inspection demands. This InfoPAK also provides checklists on specific topics such as derivative litigation basics, demand letters, special litigation committees, and books-and-records inspection demands.
Take it up a level! When it comes to licensing rights to music and video, ensure that you are covering all of your legal bases. This advanced session will offer hypotheticals and practical guidelines on how to assess your company's needs and secure the requisite permissions, clearances and licenses. From music licensing — American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI), and the Society of European Stage Authors and Composers (SESAC) — to movie and TV licensing — Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) and Motion Picture Licensing Corporation (MPLC) — this panel will examine the current public-performance licensing world and offer tips for the "what, when and how." This is one informative panel you don't want to miss!
This is a sample guarantee agreement by a Nevada corporation.
Attendees will choose among a number of roundtable discussion topics, each involving a creative hypothetical situation highlighting compliance issues that affect their business or compliance teams. Following robust discussions, each table will publicly share interesting points that arose, including best practices for handling their pressing issues. Receive a post-conference comprehensive report of the roundtable discussion findings.
Sample charter creating a nominating committee. A nominating committee identifies potential board members, nominates directors to serve Board committees, and periodically review director compensation and benefits. Includes provisions regarding committee membership, committee's purpose, committee authority and responsibilities, and committee meetings.
This is a sample stock repurchase agreement document.
In an effort to gain accounts of how our members balance these roles, ACC Docket interviewed five in-house counsel who also serve in a compliance function at their companies at the 2011 Annual Meeting. Read what they had to say about department set-up, conflicts of interest and skillsets needed in each role.
ACC Board Chair, Patricia Hatler, describes how take to take the tough lessons of 2009 and apply them to the business of 2010.
US Chamber of Commerce amicus brief, Textron v. US, 1/10
This is a sample master power purchase and sales agreement.
At times, the Bankruptcy Code’s preference provisions may seem to be aimed at unfairly penalizing the creditor. It may be hard to believe the congressional intent of preference avoidance in bankruptcy was to equalize distribution of payments to similarly situated creditors of a debtor - and even harder to explain it to your client! Planning ahead, implementing adequate precautionary measures, and exercising your rights as a creditor, however, will make the preference laws less perplexing. Thomas Federico, of Dobbs International Services, Inc. and Tisha Morris lead the way.
This Wisdom of the Crowd (ACC member discussion) addresses employees who have legal degrees but are not members of the legal department or otherwise acting as lawyers for the company in their current roles who would like to note the law degree they worked so hard to obtain by using Esq. or JD in their signature line. This resource was compiled from questions and responses posted on the forum of the Small Law Department Law ACC Network.
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