This survey reports sheds light on in-house counsel concerns on the impact on attorney-client or legal professional privilege of using AI tools based on responses from 456 participants from all over the world.

This article is a memorandum to the Standing Committee by the Civil Rules Advisory Committee.

This InfoPAK (now known as ACC Guides) provides a high level overview of matters relating to corporate fraud, bribery and corruption in various jurisdictions. It delves into matters, such as: insider dealing and market abuse, money laundering and terrorist financing, financial record keeping, due diligence, corporate liability, immunity and leniency, and whistleblowing in the United Kingdom.

Hong Kong’s Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD) has issued Guidance Notes for (1) organizations, (2) employees, and (3) users of video conference software, with a view to enhance measures for data security and data privacy in the use, storage, and handling of personal data when employees work from home. In this article, the three Guidance Notes published by PCPD and key takeaways for employers are briefly summarized.

Deleting emails and files is a type of initiative that looks easy at the outset but become difficult. Emails and files are retained, and month after month, can quickly year after year they accumulate creating digital layers called information horizons. These information horizons contain a little bit of everything: records, non-records, copies containing high-value value information, personal information, intellectual property, and even documents subject to legal hold.

It can be costly to hold on to information that is obsolete, expired, either legal, regulatory, and not needed for or business reasons.  An organization must determine what needs to be saved (meaning, it can identify what can be disposed). Policies can be developed that include both the business justification and process for deleting electronic documents, and establish consistent, repeatable, defensible processes that allow for the routine deletion of data not under a legal hold.

The following is a checklist of common policies appearing in employee handbooks. Please note that the checklist is overly inclusive and that not every policy listed within should necessarily be contained in a particular employee handbook. (That being said, the checklist also does not include every possible policy that could potentially be included in an employee handbook.) Policies included in an employee handbook vary by the employer’s preferences, size, workforce, states (and municipalities) of employment, and type of industry or business.

This InfoPAK (now known as ACC Guides) provides a high level overview of the lending mark, forms of security over assets, special purpose vehicles in secured lending, quasi-security, negative pledge, guarantees and loan agreements in the Cayman Islands.

As more businesses begin to operate on a global scale, European companies may find themselves facing US litigation more frequently. If you are not familiar with US litigation, assessing the potential risks of a situation could prove quite difficult. Consider these 10 factors — know where you stand and which questions to ask.

Included in this Briefing Package are: “Meet. Talk. Act.” -- how clients and firms can get started; Covenant with Counsel -- basic principles for discussion and; A Project Summary -- backgrounder outlining the ACC Value Challenge.

This is a comprehensive sample executive employment agreement.

This is a sample code of conduct policy for the electronics industry.

This is a sample notice of privacy practices 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.

Discusses available options when your company sees its stock price go down, then receives a class action alleging securities fraud, and it sounds like plaintiffs' counsel is getting, and using, confidential information from one of your employees—a corporate mole.

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

This is a sample lease agreement for the state of Texas.

804 How to Respond to a Government Investigation/Inquiry: The First 30 Days. This discussion covers important topics such as protecting applicable privileges, dealing with letters of investigation, and more.