Increased focus on sustainability and environmental stewardship is changing the legal and regulatory landscape affecting the fashion and textiles industry, providing new challenges for textile and garment manufacturers, distributors, and retailers. This Top Ten provides a list of tips for sustainability professionals to navigate compliance issues throughout their supply chain.
Sample policy outlining the limit of cash and non-cash gifts that employees may accept, and reporting guidelines for gifts in excess of that amount.
Recently, the Supreme Court of Canada released its decisions in three related appeals, two from the British Columbia Court of Appeal and one from the Quebec Court of Appeal, all dealing with the certification of price-fixing claims as class actions. This article reviews the issues addressed by the appeals and assesses their impact.
An overview of Mergers & Acquisitions regulation and practice in Bulgaria.
The attorney-client privilege and work-product doctrine can act as powerful shields in protecting from disclosure documents generated in internal investigations, both in later litigation and in enforcement actions.
This article focuses on tensions in litigation that involves obligations to produce vs. not to produce documents in different jurisdictions (United Kingdom, France, United Sates, China, and Hong Kong).
Sun Microsystems has successfully developed partner relationships with several Legal Provider Organizations (LPO) in India to complete selected legal assignments that are generally process oriented.
This article addresses the United States Supreme Court's proposed amendments to Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 4.
This article is a global perspective on preventing employee data theft and trade secret misappropriation.
This is a sample guideline that a company would share with outside counsel after contracting to do business.
Federal Circuit Amicus Brief - Regents v. Affymetrix
ACC Comments to North Carolina re: Changes to Rule 5.5
Employers with U.S.-based employees requesting or requiring remote work arrangements abroad can use this questionnaire and checklist to evaluate risk and determine strategy.
ACC Amicus Brief - Friedman v. Sebelius
2022 might shape up to be a challenging year in terms of privacy and data protections. In this resource, in-house counsel can gain perspective on the coming year by taking these hot topics into consideration.
A review of Brazil's handling of multi-jurisdictional insolvency.
Sample terms of engagement for external counsel between an association and outside counsel.
As companies continue to expand their global operations, in-house counsel must simultaneously broaden their understanding of international labor and employment issues and learn to identify potential compliance challenges in the global marketplace. This interactive session will employ several hypothetical scenarios to explore the latest challenges facing multinational employers and best practices for managing a global workforce.
This is a sample interim work authorization contract.
Finally now that large amounts of email and unstructured data are in M365 organizations are ready to apply automated disposition for expired information. Except many of these initiatives are coming to a grinding halt when it is discovered that this automated disposition may violate custodian-based legal holds. In this advanced webinar Greg Forest from Contoural will discuss how to migrate traditional IT or custodian-based legal hold processes to more compliant and disposition friendly process that leverages M365 retention and disposition controls. He will review how to implement broad early case holds until the Meet and Conference, which can then be narrowed and held until the release. Preserve what you must to be compliant and defensive while still allowing ongoing disposition of non-relevant expired information. Release and dispose when done. Just us for what will be a lively conversation.
Speakers: Greg Forest and Tom Mighell
This check card is a printable resource with practical advice for the dos and don'ts of dealing with EU Data Privacy.
In some form, we are all leaders. Whether we lead others or lead ourselves; whether it is in our work environment, our community or personal life, leadership goes beyond a job title. We can own this state of being, all the time. This article explains how we can take our leadership roles to new heights.
Emotional Intelligence (EI) is an important aspect to being a successful in-house counsel. Being aware of yours and others emotions, especially within your team, will allow for better communication and teamwork.
This article appears in the Australian Corporate Lawyer Volume 30, Issue 1 - Autumn 2020
In her latest Lead the Way column, Whitnie Wiley discusses the fears we encounter along the journey of leadership.
Where there are employees, there are employment disputes. How do you most effectively and efficiently settle them? Is mandatory arbitration the way to go for your company? Explore your options and learn how to craft enforceable agreements.
This article pertains to attorneys who work with LPO providers regularly, as well as those who might be considering using LPO for the first time.
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