An overview of security interests in Ontario. Includes review of how companies can protect their security interests under Ontario's Personal Property Security Act.

An overview of doing business in Ontario, Canada. Includes a review of establishing a business in Canada, tax considerations, employment issues, and real estate issues.

In this article key questions are answered concerning merger control from the European Lawyer Reference Series.

The legal profession still has a long way to go toward building minority representation. The Corporate Legal Diversity Pipeline program gives attorneys a chance to increase diversity in the legal profession by reaching out to promising minority students while they're still in high school. Learn how you can get involved with minimal time and maximum impact.

This Quick Overview discusses how businesses must be prepared to handle the risks and consequences of storing large quantities of customer and client personal information digitally in the United States.

With growing environmental concerns affecting global companies, Chief Legal Officers (CLOs) are optimally placed to deal with these issues and direct that company to a more sustainable future. In this Quick Overview, CLOs and senior in-house counsel can learn tips and takeaways on how to prepare a more robust Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) program for their company.

Research shows that leaders who demonstrate positive recognition toward those they work with have a much higher rate of engagement and success. By defining “positive recognition” and learning how it affects others, in-house counsel can better master how to utilize this kind of acknowledgement and ultimately increase efficiency and communication.

Managing legal cost has become a core expectation for Law Departments, rather than a defining indicator of value contribution. The next evolutionary phase is strategically supporting the business in the accomplishment of its goals and objectives.

In the past few years, there have been headline-grabbing government investigations of foreign companies in the European Union (EU) and China. A number of these investigations relate to anti-trust, anti-bribery and corruption matters. It is critical for the legal departments of companies operating in the EU and China to be prepared for these sorts of investigations, ensuring that the business can react quickly and deal successfully with the government inquiry at a very tense and stressful time. The panel will look at the reasons for government investigations in the EU and China, what in-house counsel need to do to prepare their companies for the possibility of a government investigation (including the dreaded dawn raid) and provide practical tips for dealing with government investigations in the EU and China.

This ACC guide (InfoPAK) provides a comprehensive overview of Canadian labour and employment laws. It discusses the minimum statutory rights and standards regarding the hiring, employment, and termination of employees, and union organizing and labour relations.

Top tips for protecting IP for in-house lawyers - presentation held in Melbourne 15 August 2017.

Sherri Sampson, general counsel of GMAC, shares her thoughts on developing an effective legal department, collaborating with business partners and adapting to globalization.

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.

Comment on the SEC shareholder access proposal.

Sometimes, there is a disconnect between certain truths patent attorneys<br />hold dear and what corporate counsel understand about patents. This article aims to close those gaps.

This sample contract template can be used as a starting point when your company enters into a sublease of space it currently is leasing as a sublessor. The template can also be used when your company is a sublessee subleasing from a third party.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), as part of 2023 Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule, has proposed significant revisions to the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP). The revisions to the MSSP in the proposed rule (the Rule) are designed to address the lack of growth in beneficiary participation in the MSSP and the fact that higher spending beneficiary populations, and racial and minority beneficiaries are increasingly underrepresented in the MSSP. Read this article by Foley & Lardner to learn more about the proposed revisions to the MSSP.

The Spanish "REIT" was founded in October 2009 under the name of Sociedades Anónimas Cotizadas de Inversión en el Mercado Inmobiliario ("SOCIMI"). Its legal regime was set out in the Law 11/2009 of 26 October, which was subsequently amended by Law 16/2012 of 27 December to relax the legal requirements for their incorporation, remove the regulatory barriers and enhance the tax treatment applicable from 2009.

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.

This resource is a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) checklist, developed by N.Cornell Boggs, III of Quarles & Brady LLP, that provides a thought starting process for In-house leaders and their corporate legal department as they engage in conversations that are aimed at making improvements internally, and externally with the service providers their company works with.

This is a sample employment agreement where the company is promoting the employee to Chief Executive Officer.

Explores an alternative billing method that uses a risk/reward model for working with outside counsel.

Why do corporations lose in high-stakes litigation before juries? A number of factors may be to blame—including plaintiffs portraying corporations as uncaring monsters long before any parties set foot in the courtroom. For many years now, the Plaintiffs’ Bar has used litigation tactics consistent with the “Reptile Theory” to gain an advantage in the litigation and influence the ultimate outcome in the courtroom. In this presentation, we will address ways to combat these tactics by transforming the perception of the company from the inception of the case in the United States.