Without a doubt, implementing a successful legal project management (LPM) program is no easy feat. LPM can include various responsibilities, such as coordination, planning, monitoring and issue escalation on matters. But as with every emerging practice, LPM brings myths: “LPM is too complex and interferes with the legal aspects of the matter;” “Finding the right fit for this role is impossible;” and “In-house lawyers will never adapt to LPM.” These myths and other challenges cause some law departments and law firms to quit LPM before they even get started. Hear firsthand how some pioneers—in-house counsel at varying levels—debunked the myths around LPM and developed practical strategies for making it work within their environments.
Exposing Legal Project Management Myths: The Truth Behind What Works and What Doesn’t
This resource from Foley and Lardner provides insight into the most prominent trends throughout 2023. These trends are focused on the health care and life sciences sector.
Companies in the energy industry continue to face scrutiny from federal securities regulators and private securities class action lawyers on numerous fronts. Energy industry participants should be particularly mindful of the following enforcement initiatives and shareholder litigation trends.
This resource provides an overview on the recently passed legislation by the Financial Services Royal Commission. The specific legislation is the Financial Sector Reform (Hayne Royal Commission Response) Bill 2020. In particular, this summary examines the differences between this Bill and previous legislation and how it affects insurers.
Today’s heightened regulatory environment coincides with an exponential growth in data, creating new challenges for corporations operating in the international marketplace. Multinational corporations must employ innovative strategies that capitalize on expanding data. Learn how to leverage fact development organizations so that information gathered is lasting and useful.
Contract boilerplate - choice-of-law, forum selection, integration, severability and survival clauses - are standard and necessary provisions in employment agreements. These clauses are so common that they're often recycled from one agreement to the next - sometimes with just a few keyboard clicks. But beware: Dangers may be lurking in these commonly used provisions.
Discusses how the Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) program can be of great benefit to your legal department, if your company does business with the federal government, and identifies best practices to mitigate the risks associated with obligations under FSS contracts.
This is a sample workplace violence policy.
In ACC Docket's September Issue, Business Ethics Columnist James A. Nortz discusses precarious legal issues surrounding of mergers and acquisitions.
This article provides an overview of the changes a new piece of legislative reform in the Australian government would enact in order to bolster the national framework for addressing sexual harassment in Australian workplaces.
This sample Covid policy was prepared in 2021, and it reflects the Executive Order (US) in place at that time.
All employers will be confronted with sickness absenteeism of employees at some stage. Under Dutch law, employees accrue holidays during sickness absence. However, in certain cases, (part of) the days the employees are absent due to illness can be deducted from holiday.
This article provides some tips for using your mobile device more safely and securely to help you achieve your financial goals.
This is a sample computer, email and voice mail usage policy.
This session explores the immediate impact of the implementation of the EU General data protection regulation including the harmonisation of regulator activity across Europe, how effective the "one-stop shop" format will be, Article 29 Working Party submissions and how to protect your business from the right to be forgotten.
What is an employee handbook? What is the point of it? What can be arranged by such a handbook? And how do you make sure that the employee handbook applies to all your employees?
Chairman’s Message: Operating Without a License?
This resource includes sample conflict minerals reporting questions that an organization can ask its suppliers.
Discusses the layers of protection against illegal or unethical employee behavior the typical compliance and ethics risk management program has.
Geoffrey Vance, Yodi Hailemariam & Jared T. Nelson
Learn how the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's policies and regulatory functions may change in the wake of the US Supreme Court's 2024 decision overturning the Chevron doctrine.
The Legal Ops Investor
Meta was fined €1.2 billion on May 22, 2023 by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) for breaching the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This article discusses some of the takeaways from the record-breaking fine.
A crowd controller is a person who is hired at a public place for keeping order in or about the public place. This article addresses the issue of whether or not the crowd controller should be licensed.
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