This article deals with protecting the employer's interests by post-termination restrictions in employment contracts.
This column discusses the results of the 2011 National Business Ethics Survey, including the disconnect between ethical culture strength and misconduct rates.
It's Quick, Easy and Adds Value: Use the ACC Value Index to Give Kudos to Creative Firms and Find Firms Evaluated on Value, CLO Perspective
Are you ready, willing and prepared to take up a place at the center of your respective nation’s social, political and economic life? In this article, in-house counsel can learn about giving back to their communities and what it takes to be a leader, not just in the legal field.
This primer is a guide to Mergers & Acquisitions in Asia Pacific region.
No longer is the annual report a dry recitation of financial figures. Increasingly, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings have become a canvas for broad, aspirational statements on corporate environmental and social practices. Publicly traded companies now face overlapping and sometimes conflicting demands for transparency from the SEC, activist shareholders, customers, and non–governmental organizations on subjects as disparate as conflict minerals, climate change, material environmental liabilities, and social mandates. These disclosures, which inevitably carry some degree of subjectivity, are fraught with obvious risks, including SEC enforcement actions, shareholder lawsuits and civil litigation based on consumer deception or false advertising claims. This program will provide corporate counsel with tips and case studies for working with their corporate colleagues and outside auditors to obtain information critical to making accurate and defensible disclosures that will highlight company accomplishments without creating unnecessary litigation or enforcement risk.
On August 15, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)—in a bipartisan, 5-0 vote—issued a policy paper detailing its concerns with Certificates of Public Advantage (COPAs). Check out this article by Foley & Lardner article detailing the policy paper and the future of the FTC and COPAs.
The author discusses how the power human beings have to influence others through language is unprecedented in this historical moment. With the ability to have our words easily disseminated and live on forever, comes risk, so use the power with caution, advises the author.
Most lawyers do not appreciate the affinities between their own methods and the underpinnings of the world’s favorite search engine (Google). Indeed, much of today’s and tomorrow’s technology is built on concepts familiar to lawyers.
Read this 2008 Magnum Opus Award-winning column!
Bob Feldman discusses the "seller's bluebirds" found in Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code and seller's damages.
Salary, benefits and stability are top of mind for individuals from all generations today — baby boomers (born from 1946-1964), Generation X (born from 1965-1978) and Generation Y (born from 1979-1999). Read this article to find out what the recession is doing to your employees.
A sample contract in which a company incorporated outside Kuwait wants to appoint a Kuwait company as its sole agent in Kuwait.
Being a leader is a complex role. In this article, in-house counsel can learn many different aspects to leadership and how to integrate those attributes into their own work-style.
The purpose of this research is to understand how organizations qualify and quantify the financial risk to their tangible and intangible assets in the event of a network privacy or security incident.
ACCA and its CA Chapters' comments to The Judicial Council of California Supreme Court Multijurisdictional Practice Implementation Committee regarding its report: The Multijurisdictional Practice of Law by Lawyers Not Admitted to the State Bar of California.
This resource from Seyfarth Shaw LLP discusses the appropriate considerations and actions concerning the FDIC for those with loans in a Bridge Bank.
This article summarises the legislative framework for the protection of personally<br />identifiable information (PII).
While oil and gas provide nearly 60 percent of the world’s energy, the industry is notoriously associated with corruption. To ensure that oil and gas remain vital to the world economy in an ethical manner, it’s essential to closely monitor all international business transactions and guarantee anticorruption compliance across borders.
Check out this Foley & Lardner article detailing the steps California is taking to ensure access to abortion care in response to Dobbs v Jackson.
Strategy is the word when it comes to approaching a quagmire of patent litigation. Regardless of the business or field of industry, it's the key to overcoming competition and protecting your market interests. Glean some food for legal thought on launching a successful global patent litigation.
This article takes a look at the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority’s (APRA) efforts to monitor regulated entities’ cyber risk management. The resource goes on to provide a holistic outline of the APRA’s Cyber Security Strategy for 2020-2024, as well as additional measures it would like to take.
The key to long-term, sustainable business results in the Asia Pacific region is hiring and retaining the right staff.
Singapore recently passed the Variable Capital Companies Act: this regulation can help create fund-friendly legal entities. In this article, in-house counsel can learn the basics of the Act and how it impacts their company.
Discusses the role a chief ethics and compliance officer should play.
This brief article addresses the restructuring of commercial debt in Puerto Rico.
This primer provides a broad overview of issues in Australian public procurement laws and regulations and discuss developments over the last 12 months.
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