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.
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.
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.
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.
In this column, the author discusses how the ACC Value Challenge can help save your company money, and in turn, help you get promoted.
A presentation giving an international perspective on privacy law.
These are the top US healthcare predictions for 2020 and beyond.
This is a sample company employment handbook.
View checklists on building a law department, in the materials from this presentation by in-house counsel.
This is a sample subcontract services agreement.
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 resource provides tips for successful succession planning for legal departments.
This is a sample company employee handbook.
This brief resource (Top Ten) is an overview of ten industry challenges that all health care lawyers should be aware of.
In this checklist, in-house counsel and litigators can figure out where, when and how to consider the use of force majeure in their practice during the global pandemic.
709 Lobbying & Political Activity Do's & Don'ts. Learn about why 501(c)(3)s must report lobbying activities, how 501(c)(3)s can measure lobbying activity, and more.
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