Healthy Building Network has developed the Pharos Service which documents the environmental, health and social performance of building products in the marketplace
A broad overview of EU data protection regulation, impact on business, application to cloud computing, and related contractual provisions.
This article examines how the Chinese National Intelligence Law (“NIL") applies differently to Chinese parent companies compared to companies owned by non-Chinese parent companies.
This article focuses on how companies need to navigate carefully any business relationship involving members of the Middle East region's royal families so that compensation or other benefits conveyed do not run afoul of the FCPA.
This article speaks to improve Boards’ gender diversity by refining succession processes.
Sample guidelines for in-house counsel to use when dealing with outside counsel.
Discusses three broad categories of compliance and ethics program performance metrics that should be considered to provide the balanced score card needed to make rational judgments about how well your program is working.
To limit the risks of significant civil fines and potential criminal prosecutions based upon allegations of hiring or continuing to employ unauthorized workers, employers must ensure that their I-9 compliance systems are effective.
Increasing cybersecurity attacks and fast-evolving data privacy and security law mean there's so much more data for in-house legal departments to track. Learn how to gauge a "reasonable" data security request and integrate that into your work.
Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) have been gaining traction during the past 18 months, although more recently they have come under the spotlight for more negative reasons. Following high-profile litigation associated with certain de-SPAC deals and statements from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), many investors are now starting to question SPACs as an investment vehicle of choice.
ACC Comments on Proposed Amendments to FRPC
This document is typically requested by a seller in a transaction as assurance of the buyers repayment abilities.
How big is the gender gap for chief legal officers? What technology is the most important to legal departments? Find out from this sample of ACC's in-depth surveys.
From hiring increases to job happiness, discover what career issues are top-of-mind for in-house counsel.
Discusses how to provide a beneficial, engaging global legal conference.
To resolve and prevent conflicts, employers must create work environments where dissenting opinions are not only allowed but encouraged.
Discuss recent developments in the global regulatory landscape that impact cybersecurity compliance in the financial industry, and the sources of authority or reference for defining legal standards in this domain. Review regulatory guidance that both identifies and raises questions on what is enough to satisfy an organization’s responsibilities to customers, employees, business partners and other stakeholders with respect to cybersecurity. Identify best practices for effective implementation of cybersecurity measures. Explore how a multinational financial institution can structure its cybersecurity program at the enterprise level without running afoul of foreign jurisdictions’ regulators. Review the state of play in civil litigation over data breaches, including plaintiff strategies for overcoming motions to dismiss based on inadequate pleadings or standing. Discuss recent settlements of major data breach class actions and their impact on future cases.
This program will review lessons learned in international litigation and alternative dispute resolution (ADR) with a focus on Mexico. Most multinational corporations now have significant operations located in Mexico and, despite the business’s best efforts, may unfortunately find themselves embroiled in a legal dispute there. We will review the applicable legal recommendations for arbitration, mediation and litigation, including issues such as law firm selection, supervision of Mexican litigation, expected time frames for resolution, discovery, substantive and procedural concerns, institutional arbitration options, enforcement issues, etc. In-house counsel with experience in Mexican disputes will offer their insights and recommendations based on their experiences in-country.
This Top 10 is intended to help in-house counsel obtain the most important information related to technology projects so they can evaluate risks to the company’s data, intellectual property, and commercial interests, and ensure proper contractual protections.
This Top 10 is intended to help in-house counsel obtain the most important information related to technology projects so they can evaluate risks to the company’s data, intellectual property, and commercial interests, and ensure proper contractual protections.
This article stresses the importance of following community oriented principles in GNU General Public License (GPL) enforcement work.
Evaluation Day 1 and 2
The articles in this Out In Front include: Going Global: Developing Lawyers from Developing Countries Shoveling Smoke, Retreating Forward: 10 Steps for a Successful Offsite, The Biz: Juris Doctor Strangelove, Business Ethics: Hey Bub! Listen Up!, and The Contractual Cogitator: Immortal Warranty Sustains Boring Machine Case.
This panel will cover a wide range of issues relevant to in-house counsel including: dealing with seller-friendly deal environment; the role of in-house counsel in M&A; opportunities and pitfalls with earn-outs and other purchase price adjustment provisions; current due diligence hot button issues (including FCPA, OFAC and cybersecurity); shareholder activism; and lessons learned from recent M&A litigation.
Knowing how and when to balance risk and reward is a skill necessary for in-house counsel to master. In order to achieve success in today's markets, in-house counsel need to be not only legal savvy leaders but tech savvy leaders too.
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