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This brief resource outlines some of the most common errors made in filing construction liens in Florida.

This article provides topical and current insights from leading experts on the tax issues and opportunities in their respective jurisdictions.

Banner Health Amicus Brief

In this article, in-house counsel can learn more about investment in Hong Kong businesses and commercial relationships. This resource was published by Meritas in February 2018.

This is a sample services agreement between a vendor company and a non-profit.

This is a sample employee video recording and photo release form.

This article focuses on the challenges involved in the discovery phase of litigation when dealing with foreign companies. Understand what obstacles can impede the discovery process and what legal measures, if any, may be taken to avoid these complications.

These guidelines detail the standard terms of engagement between Freescale and outside counsel. Section 1 addresses effective communication, including the company's expectation that counsel allow sufficient time to review and consider counsel's advice and work product prior to deadlines. The remaining Sections address handling confidential/proprietary information, budgets, staffing, retention authority, litigation planning, non-litigation planning, procedures for addressing potential conflicts of interest, media policy, professional fees, invoice timing and format, and policies on expenses.

A company’s board of directors has fiduciary duties, including a duty to oversee all aspects of the company’s risk management efforts. This article will focus on how in-house counsel can help educate and engage the board of directors with regard to data security.

The following Statement of Principles was endorsed by the National Center for State Courts General Counsel Committee and is commended to businesses and courts throughout the United States as a means of promoting jury service.

This is a sample interview authorization form.

This is a crisis management simulation hypothetical from the 2012 ACC Annual Meeting Session 803.

A brief summary of Fannie Mae's remote telecommuting policy.

The last few years have seen strong competition and antitrust enforcement in many African countries, in particular regarding merger control. International companies that have operations in in Africa should make sure any activities by their entities in Africa comply with competition law.

This presentation will cover recent cases and give in-house counsel practical tips for deciding which scheme of protection to use regarding subject matter eligibility for patents, copyrights and trade secrets. Cases will include recent US Supreme Court decisions on patent- eligible subject matter and the Federal Circuit case deciding scope of copyrightability in Oracle v. Google, among others.

Thailand Anti-dumping proceedings can be a frightening prospect for most companies. But an anti-dumping proceeding notice does not automatically spell doom. Strategic, advance planning will guarantee the best possible outcome in such a proceeding. The result: a company can double its market share overnight as its competitors are taxed out of the market altogether. Read how to prepare for success.

This program will focus on a series of case studies involving in-house lawyers who got into trouble for (allegedly or actually) violating legal ethics rules, acting improperly in response to government investigations, and assisting their employers in perpetrating fraudulent or criminal acts. We will review the case studies, discuss what the lawyers involved could have done to avoid trouble, and tease out steps that you and your law department can take to protect yourselves from the potential pitfalls highlighted by the case studies.

In the 2013-2014 term, the US Supreme Court issued unanimous decisions in six out of seven patent cases. It is important to understand how these decisions will affect US patent law.

The Justice Department reached an agreement with Travel Management Company, a private airplane charter company based in Elkhart, Indiana, resolving claims that the company engaged in citizenship status discrimination in violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA).

The Justice Department reached an agreement with Real Time Staffing Services LLC, doing business as Select Staffing, a company based in Santa Barbara, California. The settlement resolves the department’s claims that Select Staffing discriminated against work-authorized non-U.S. citizens in violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA).

Ownership by an investor of 5% or more of outstanding shares or securities entitling rights to such shares, issued by a publicly-held company in Brazil, triggers the investor’s disclosure obligation, which must report such ownership to the Company that for its part will notify the Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission

This is a sample cybersquatting cease and desist order.

To support your global practice, ACC Docket offers country-specific fun facts from your peers who've been there – literally. In this issue, learn more about France.

This is a sample of information governance project plans.

Based on responses from 1,800 in-house counsel in 53 countries, the 2017 ACC In-house Trends Report covers trending topics such as the inside-outside counsel relationship, career mobility, professional development, department resource allocation, cybersecurity, professional privilege, and more.