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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.

Chart includes the basic principles of compliance, the responsible party, and status, and includes supplemental appendix materials.

This alert contains an overview of current rules on access to clinical trials data, an overview of the anticipated legislative changes and provides a summary of the issues that the new regulation may bring, including concerns raised by the industry.

Under Turkish law, cross-border financial lease agreements must be registered by the Association of Financial Leasing, Factoring and Financing Companies. This article provides a quick peek on the novation or assignment of leases.

In this session, a panel will provide an overview of the major recent cases and trends in patent, copyright, trade secret and trademark law with particular emphasis on how they affect in-house practice.

We all have lists of policies and procedures we'd like to see updated, revised or implemented. But how do you prioritize a long list of must-haves, knowing that in reality you won't get to all of them right away? Is a document retention policy more or less important than a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act policy? What about policies that depend on other organizations, but often involve (or are driven by) legal, like information security and privacy policies, business continuity plans, etc.? Which ones can be safely patched together or temporarily left alone, and which need to be addressed immediately? This session will give you the information to prioritize policy needs for your company so that you don’t look back and second-guess your choices.

This sample outlines the key concepts and recommended practices for creation of a Data Security Policy - a key component of managing sensitive information.

A sample contract in which a company incorporated outside Kuwait wants to appoint a Kuwait company as its sole agent in Kuwait.

News, notes, & datebook information for the corporate counselor, May 2007

This InfoPAK (now known as ACC Guides) provides a high-level overview of privacy rules and principles in Hong Kong.

Camana Bay in the Cayman Islands is a meticulously groomed town, where native vegetation flanks walkways and bike trails that lead to office buildings, courtyards, restaurants and school grounds. The aesthetics are both beautiful and functional. Because every destination that spans this development is walkable, Camana Bay promotes social interaction and a low environmental impact. Dart Enterprises, where Ward Sykes is vice president of corporate and legal, is the parent company of Dart Realty, the developer of Camana Bay and the company responsible for the beautifully engineered community.

This is a sample SRDP disclosure outline.

Checklist for filing out an SEC Form 10-K. Includes timeline of information to collect and filings.

This sample policy specifies a company's procedures for handling data breaches.

This white paper explores the reasons that defensible disposition programs stall out, and outlines several strategies to help organizations “push the delete button” with confidence.

This is a sample of data map design strategies.

This panel will discuss copyright compliance as it relates to social media in an interactive session, asking the audience to evaluate scenarios involving employee use of social media for sharing information or obtaining third-party content for use in marketing or promotional campaigns. The session will combine a review of recent regulatory and legal opinions on the topic from around the world with a candid look at situations encountered everyday by in-house IP counsel. The session will include tips and tricks to help you determine whether content on social media is free to use and share, using examples from YouTube, Google Images and Flickr, among others. This session promises to be fun as we take a look at the use in a corporate setting of music, movies and text obtained by unsuspecting employees from social media sites.

The Canadian market is an exciting opportunity for international investment, and many sectors are seeing employment with international companies as the new normal in Canada. This article discusses a few critical considerations for any employer entering the Canadian landscape.

This article outlines the benefits of replacing a reactive, ad-hoc discovery process with a proactive litigation readiness program that can substantially reduce the risks and costs of implementing legal holds, collecting relevant electronically stored information (ESI), and otherwise responding to eDiscovery requests for companies based in the United States.

This is a sample lease agreement for the states of California and Delaware.

The National Labor Relations Board (the Board) has decided to issue this final rule for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of the National Labor Relations Act which ‘‘protect[ ] the exercise by workers of full freedom of association, selforganization, and designation of representatives of their own choosing, for the purpose of negotiating the terms and conditions of their employment or other mutual aid or protection."

This is a sample employee handbook.

This is a sample asset purchase agreement between a Thai company as the seller, individual shareholders of the seller, and a Thai company and a US company as the buyers. The sample includes a choice of US and New York laws and Thai courts.

This Wisdom of the Crowd (ACC member discussion) addresses how to protect privileged information in internal email communication, under US law. This resource was compiled from questions and responses posted on the community of the New to In-house Network.*

This presentation is on the Apparel Industry experience.

More and more lawyers are taking on the role of managers of cross-functional teams. This new phenomenon has the potential
to save costs and generate excellent inter-departmental communication. Bringing the management of cross-functional teams to the legal department reduces the need for outside management consultants and outside law firms, and makes it clear to the legal department exactly what needs to be done in order to advance the business of the company. This article demonstrates how pointed questions, in the style of a reporter’s traditional “5Ws,” can lay the foundation for participation in cross-functional teams.

After graduating from Duquesne Law School in Pittsburgh, Pa., Kathleen Dohmlo was hired into the New Lawyer Development Program at Alcoa, Inc., where she was trained as a commercial attorney. Dohmlo has spent her entire career in-house. She has been with LANXESS for seven years and, prior to that, was with Bayer MaterialScience LLC for six years. In 2011, she was assigned to Singapore to establish LANXESS’ legal function for Southeast Asia. While it was no chore to settle into the landscape and layout of Singapore, cultural differences, particularly in the workplace, took more effort to overcome. Learn how she overcame those differences.

Kenneth Fredeen, general counsel of Deloitte Canada and one of the signatories of the Legal Leaders for Diversity program, discusses the role of general counsel, its potential, and its tendency to be misunderstood and sometimes undervalued within an organization.

Jim Villa’s curriculum vitae makes a statement. He served as AOL’s vice president and chief counsel for litigation and antitrust, worked as a trial attorney for the Department of Justice, spent years at well-known DC law firms, holds undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Michigan and was a captain in the US Army Reserves, having commanded a combat support MP company in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm.