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This article discusses different aspects of LPO provider selection, including location, casting your net broadly enough, making your selection based on robust criteria, and taking into account possible obstacles to success that have more to do with your own organization than the potential provider.

Contract Playbooks – Gain a better understanding of how introducing innovative contract negotiation and contracting process playbooks in to your organization can support the optimization of the commercial contracting lifecycle. Data Analytics – Learn how measuring and analyzing contract data helps increase process efficiency, optimize contract content and promote better contract performance. Understand how data analytics is defined in commercial contracting and what information needs to be extracted and reported on to develop analytics. What conclusions and benefits can this analytics provide? Contract Triage – The contract triage process is not merely about allocating tasks to the right skill level, but also adjusting your risk appetite. Understand how to insert triaging into your contract management processes.

This article discusses the judgments recently passed by several European courts in cases that involve age discrimination.

This is a sample severance agreement setting out the rights and responsibilities of the employer and the separating executive, including the benefits that the employer will provide to the executive in exchange for a release of claims.

This is a sample company employee handbook.

Discusses standard 10b5-1 plan parameters, advantages and disadvantages of such plans, provides ten things you should know about 10b5-1 plans and includes a sales plan sample form.

The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of the regulatory structure of the PCCA as well as a summary of the policy settings that have and may continue to occur as a result of the PCCA in the forestry and energy sectors in Brazil.

This report underlines the extent to which corporates have sought to diversify their funding mix. Following years of volatility and uncertainty, the financial markets appear to be stabilising. What’s now clear, as the dust settles from the financial crisis, is that a structural shift has taken place in the way that corporates access finance. This report highlights that, rather than returning to normality, financing is set to become increasingly diversified. It also assesses the implication of this on the behaviour of both banks and funds.

This resource provides tips for successful succession planning for legal departments.

Both the Russian and French courts considered asymmetric clauses to be inequitable and as such, invalid. In light of these decisions, caution should be exercised whenever you are considering incorporating an asymmetric clause.

This is a cybersecurity checklist for Boards of Directors.

In his last column, the author introduced the Suffolk/ Flaherty Legal Tech Audit. Like anything that challenges the status quo, the Audit has its critics. This article serves as preparation for the criticism you might encounter should you decide to deploy the Audit.

This article points out that the value of an in-house legal department is not in cash generated but costs avoided.

This is a Request for Proposal for selected law firms to provide creative, alternative billing arrangement for the handling, on an exclusive or semi-exclusive basis, of company's employment and labor matters.

This article highlights the importance of conducting security risk assessments in “hot” regions where kidnappings, abductions and suicide bombings are on the rise. The resource also discusses the importance of training employees regarding risks of security incidents.

Learn ten key issues and tips on seeking to recover insurance proceeds following a crisis.