As more companies realize the benefits of employing in-house counsel, the need for retention and recruitment of qualified attorneys becomes more important. Find out the many benefits of implementing a mentoring program in your legal department.
A sample class action settlement agreement and release between current and former employees, during a time period, and an employer. Provisions included are identity of the class, settlement considerations, claims administrator, notice to class members, enhanced compensation for named plaintiff, miscellaneous, etc.
In spite of the various immediate hardships caused by the economic recession that we're facing today, columnist Ronald Pol evaluates the possible positive long term rewards that may be reaped as a result.
This article points out that each board should build a renewal framework unique to its forthcoming challenges in order to maximize its effectiveness over the long term.
This case deals with the issue of employer email policies. Additionally, the case states that employees cannot expect that their communications won't be monitored. This essentially negates the ability of the employee to argue that the privilege should apply to emails that were sent between him and his own personal lawyer.
Letter to Senator Leahy from former United States Attorneys for support of S.186, the Attorney Client privilege Protection Act of 2007.
This article discusses key developments in the regulation of business function outsourcing and labor dispatch in five Asian countries: China, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, and Vietnam.
This article discusses top issues related to flexible workplace arrangements and their legal compliance solutions.
Despite conventional wisdom, lawyers are human and not emotionless machines. All too often law department leaders overlook this human side and find themselves in difficult management situations that are easily avoided. This program is designed to identify warning signs and offer practical solutions for law department managers. Using a skit-style presentation, the program will provide content in the form of case studies covering: diffusing personal conflicts, setting career expectations, and managing workloads, for instance, while accounting for gender and generational diversity in the workforce. Be prepared to learn and be entertained!
A review of changes to Brazil's Commercial Representation Law, specifically the introduction of the sales agency concept in Brazilian contractual relationships.
This is a sample policy changing an employee from exempt to non-exempt status.
The changing landscape of the American legal profession brings with it an ever-evolving set of concerns for attorneys and their employers. Over the past three decades increased lawyer mobility and the growing trend towards moving legal work in-house has fueled ethical and business-related concerns. These concerns include the need for confidentiality, the protection of intellectual property and other proprietary information, the potential for economic harm to the employer and the individual attorney respectively, and the increased potential for conflicts of interest. As a result, the past decades have also seen a marked increase in the use of anticompetitive covenants and consequently litigation related to anticompetitive covenants. This article attempts to predict the final outcome of the legal status of non-compete agreements as applied to in-house counsel.
Companies must compete globally today, and international joint ventures (IJV) or consortium agreements (project joint ventures, PJVs) are a complex and necessary part of this business. They aid companies in forming strategic alliances that allow them to gain access to a partner’ s essential local markets, resources, expertise and technology. They also bring substantial risk, including significant economic and compliance risk. This session will prepare in-house counsel to advise on the pros and cons of JVs and PJVs, including geographic, cultural, economic and compliance considerations, and review the basic elements of JV and consortium agreements with an eye to maximizing the value and mitigating the risks. Panelists will cite real-life examples to illustrate how to structure, negotiate and manage these types of agreements for international projects.
This Hands On is intended to help women answer typical career questions, explore themselves, think, and get onto the road to a better place..
A summary of executive compensation principles to include: Reasonable Executive Compensation, Consequences of Excess Benefits Transactions, and Avoiding Tax Penalties for Excess Benefits to Disqualified Persons.
In order to build a successful legal department, in the European Union, this article provides the blueprint of common skills and competencies needed for the department as a whole, individual lawyers and you as the department leader.
This article discusses the next generation of legal process outsourcing and where it is taking legal departments as they work to become more efficient.
Strong collaborations between general counsels and chief human resources officers have become more critical than ever over the past several years. Interviews with GCs and CHROs across several industries highlight six traits of these successful partnerships.
This article shows how to minimize risks and maximize opportunities in China-Latin America investment.
In Ust-Kamenogorsk Hydropower Plant JSC -v- AES Ust-Kamenogorsk Hydropower Plant LLP the UK Supreme Court confirmed that the English courts have the power to restrain non-European proceedings brought in violation of an arbitration agreement, even where no arbitration has been commenced or is contemplated. The decision is another example of the English courts' support of the arbitration process.
This is a sample form of swing line note where the borrower is a Delaware based company.
This presentation discusses value, technology and collaborative trends.
This material focuses on professional coaching and how it can help you gain an edge in your career.
An agreement in which one company agrees to help another company in the design and development of a "prototype". Includes provisions for a statement of work, technical coordinators, costs and expenses, copyrights, inventions, the term of the contract, confidentiality, disclaimers, and general provisions.
Sample general information form regarding discovery and depositions.
This panel of attorneys from medium and large legal departments will share strategies for processing high-volume transactions (sales agreements, procurement agreements and NDAs) more efficiently. They will discuss their approaches to improving quality and reducing cycle times. These strategies include applying business process improvement methodologies, such as Six Sigma and Lean, to the contracting process; developing forms and playbooks to empower non-attorneys (including legal process outsourcing) to make decisions; establishing risk thresholds and approval criteria and more.
This is a sample conservation easement agreement between the Grantor and the Township.
On 1 October 2013, details of the proposed amendments to the UK Financial Services (Banking Reform) Bill 2013-14 (the Banking Reform Bill) were published by UK HM Treasury; read this article to learn more.
This article describes the main features of the 2010 incoterms rules.
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