A law firm lawyer is temporarily loaned to a corporate client through a secondment arrangement. The corporate law department benefits by being able to use the services of a skilled lawyer from a firm it trusts. For the law firm, placing one of its lawyers on a secondment assignment can help build the firm’s relationship with its client. Client and firm both share their observations in this article.

This sample policy describes how eligible employees are permitted to use certain of their personally-owned computing or mobile devices (“POMD”) for work.

On March 5, 2013, the Brussels Court of Appeal issued a landmark judgment recognizing that, under Belgian law, legal advice rendered by in-house counsel (and related correspondence) benefits from a protection equivalent to legal privilege. The Judgment was given in a case opposing telecommunications incumbent Belgacom to the Belgian competition authority. Pursuing a long-time effort in defense of in-house counsel privilege, Cleary Gottlieb represented pro bono the Belgian Institute for Company Lawyers as intervener in support of Belgacom.

This is a sample computer, e-mail and internet usage policy.

This sample policy covers employees who are permitted to use certain personally-owned mobile devices for work.

This directive was a desire to create appropriate means to ensure that judicial and extrajudicial documents to be served abroad shall be brought to the notice of the addressee in sufficient time.

In-house counsel working for businesses that hold consumer data should consider the impact of the new regime regarding Consumer Data Rights (CDR) on their business operations and how they should prepare for the new data privacy landscape.

This is a sample computer, e-mail and internet usage policy.

These are sample instructions for completing a commercial party disclosure form.

This resource provides an overview of basic aspects of Colombian law.

This guide provides corporate counsel and international practitioners with comprehensive jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction guidance to enforcement of foreign judgments laws and regulations around the world.

"the "Getting the Deal Through" reference guide for M&A professionals"

A sample Working Document setting up a table with the elements and principles to be found in Binding Corporate Rules.

Waiting for litigation to occur can be both risky and expensive – especially for companies with high litigation profiles. Because of their urgency, responding to discovery and placing legal holds can disrupt business operations and consume available resources, making it hard for a company to get out of the reactive discovery mindset. Instead of waiting for discovery requests to appear, organizations in the Untied States need to anticipate and prepare for future litigation requirements.

Bring your own device (“BYOD”) is an organizational policy that allows employees to use their own mobile devices to access the organization’s information, including personal data collected by the organization in Hong Kong. For the purpose of this leaflet, personal data collected by an organization is referred to as “organization-collected personal data.”

In order to defray the rising cost of ediscovery, corporate legal teams are bringing the practice in-house. There are many ways to develop good, cost- effective ediscovery processes that are also transparent and defensible. This article discusses the five key pillars that frame successful initiatives.

We have recently witnessed a tide of competition cases examining discrete exchanges of information. This article sets out how you can ensure your company avoids falling foul of the competition rules on exchanging information in its dealings with competitors and other market players.

An article and presentation on the when to set a reserve.