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Womble Bond Dickinson hosted a panel discussion on the current challenges involving data retention and e-discovery. In particular, the session looked at employee use of personal devices for business purposes, as well as a growing trend by digital messaging platforms to automatically delete messages shortly after they are delivered. This article is taken from that panel discussion.

In this article, the United States District Court of Southern New York files an order pursuant to granting leave to obtain discovery from Jones Day for use in foreign proceedings.

Managing the legal department of a large company is no easy task, but when you add the responsibility of being in charge of an entire region, the responsibility can be daunting. Hear from Stephen A. Maloy about the differences and difficulties of dealing with an international law department.

Sample letter retaining a non-testifying expert for consulting services.

This resource provides an overview of international arbitration considerations. Topic covered include forum and rules selection, enforceability, fee-shifting, appeal process, and discovery.

The author reflects on the reasons in-house counsel have to be thankful.

This memorandum deals with the application of the Fair Labor Standards Act’s “Suffer or Permit” Standard in the Identification of Employees Who Are Misclassified as Independent Contractors.

This article describes the application of the Fair Labor Standards Act’s “Suffer or Permit” Standard in the identification of employees who are misclassified as Independent Contractors.

Rulings on attorney-client privilege and the work product doctrine occur daily in the federal and state courts. New law is continually being made on the scope of these protections for companies and their counsel in areas like internal investigations, the legal vs. business advice distinction, the crime-fraud and fiduciary exceptions, subject-matter and at issue waiver, the common interest and joint client exceptions, global privilege issues and intra-law firm privilege. In a Jeopardy! format, this interactive presentation will examine the latest developments in privilege law as well as the professional ethics rules governing confidentiality (i.e., ABA Model Rules 1.6 and 1.13) — including cases in which ACC has weighed in as amicus — and recommend best practices to preserve the attorney-client privilege and the confidentiality of work product.

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This is a card-size printable resource with practical tips for the dos and don'ts of protecting personal information under Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA).

This check card is a printable resource with practical advice for the dos and don'ts of dealing with attorney-client privilege in the United States.

This is a sample consulting agreement where the consultant agrees to have regular consultations with company management.

Discuss the various roles in-house counsel tend to play, and how they are affected by attorney-client privilege rules; learn about attorney-client privilege rules from around the world and how they apply in the compliance context; discuss in depth the Professional Conduct Model Rules 1.6, 1.13 and others as appropriate; and discuss the pros and cons of non-lawyers assuming compliance roles.

Preparing for different types of investigations, such as civil, criminal, or administrative.

A brief addressing whether the Superior Court erred as a matter of law in holding that the attorney-client privilege did not apply to a confidential memorandum written by Petitioners' in-house senior counsel to its senior executives and attorneys which related to pending and future litigation and reflects confidential information previously shared by the client with the attorney, as well as the attorney's legal advice.

Rather than mandating that board members become cybersecurity experts themselves, the well-established framework for public company governance demands that boards oversee effective processes to identify and mitigate cyber risks within a company.

This material discusses the requirements for exempt status under the FLSA and how to correct FLSA mistakes.

Jo Anne Schwendinger, regional general counsel – Asia-Pacific & Sub-Saharan Africa, Deere & Company, discusses how healthy relationships drive the company's success around the globe.

Meaningfully bridging cultural divides requires more than taking a brief predeparture course in etiquette. Cultural education is a continuous process that often requires real attitudinal change, for which the payoff can be immense.

This is a sample gift and hospitality policy.

This is a basic diligence request list that should be customized and updated to address deal-specific issues such as country-specific legal requirements and known issues arising from the target’s operations and/or deal structure.

There comes a time in the life of every parent and leader when those we’ve been charged with protecting, nurturing and preparing for the next step have to strike out on their own. It is not an easy transition, but for the health of both the preparer and the prepared, it has to be done.

This article examines the concept of heuristics, or the way human beings make judgments with incomplete information, and how to limit its destructive impact.

This paper addresses some of the common themes and emerging developments regarding the use of statistics in employment class and collective actions.<br /><br />

This presentation discusses who is CPR, the U.S.“Litigation<br />Situation,” principal reasons companies use ADR, 2011 survey conclusions, and factors driving growth of international arbitration.

This six-part series will highlight 7-Eleven's design and launch of a program designed to optimize the number of its outside counsel firms. This series will offer an unprecedented step-by-step look into how one legal department's disciplined convergence process unfolds.