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A review of changes to Brazilian laws related to social security contributions. In some economic sectors, Brazilian law reduce social security contribution requirements to encourage growth.

This is a sample former employee engagement letter to perform consulting services for the company.

This InfoPAK (now known as ACC Guides) provides a high-level overview and practical analysis for public procurement issues and procedures in the European Union.

In this article, learn about the recent developments in the use of variable interest entities in China and Hong Kong.

The purpose of this disclosure form is to permit evaluation of your invention, to determine whether the invention is patentable and to establish whether commercial development is feasible.

This is a program outline for the session.

Legal department alignment and organisation alignment: A win-win! Courtenay Zajicek, General Counsel and Company Secretary for Curves and Jenny Craig in Oceania.

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This article examines the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the aviation industry and general collapse in demand for passenger air services. It also considers the future of aviation in 2021 and beyond, taking into account the various challenges to consider moving forward.

This Sample provides the outline for a basic compliance program.

Stephen C. Parker, of Prudential Insurance Company of America, takes a tip from production managers in this discussion of reengineering the legal function.

Chris Murphy Ives - vice president and general deputy general counsel, Europe, Middle East & Africa, and Latin America & Canada, HP - discusses how his acting background benefits his role as in-house counsel.

Meaningful, effective, and enduring diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives require an organization-specific approach. Learn about how inclusive leadership, structural changes, and psychological safety are critical to the success of DEI initiatives.

This is a sample consulting agreement between a company and an independent contractor.

An experienced panel of experts will provide a summary of the highlights in labor and employment law thus far in 2015, and benchmarking on practical solutions related to trending issues.

Panelists Vince Cordo (Shell), Hans Albers (Juniper Networks), Helen Fletcher (BNP Paribas) and Thierry Perrouault (Orange) discussed the journey of establishing and advancing a legal operations function, and compared notes on the scope, structure, composition and roles of dedicated legal operations functions. Here you will find the Top Ten takeaways from their discussion.

This is a sample convertible promissory note where the Maker is a Nevada based corporation.

This template provides all the relevant portions of an annual report to the audit committee. It was a part of ACC's 2012 Compliance and Ethics Training Program.

This collection of survey data is based on respondents to the 2010 ACC/Serengeti Managing Outside Counsel Survey, ACC’s 2011 Census Report, and more.

In this article the Commission proposed – and the House adopted – six Resolutions. Those Resolutions were the product of a three-year study of how globalization and technology are transforming the practice of law and how the regulation of lawyers should be updated in light of those developments.

This article refers to the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (the “HKMA”) near final version of the draft module in the HKMA Supervisory Policy Manual on margin and risk mitigation standards for non-centrally cleared OTC derivatives (the “SPM Margin Module”), together with the HKMA’s response to comments from the various industry bodies on the HKMA consultation response.

This document addresses the situation where personal data are initially transferred by a controller to a processor within the European Union (“EU”) and are subsequently transferred by the processor to a sub-processor located outside the EU.

As a legal operations professional, you know technology can make the team more efficient and collaborative, and save the company money, but how do you measure the amount?

Among the trends explored in the report are how advances in technology, an increasingly mobile workforce and the “Millennial effect” have combined to hasten changes in the legal industry.

A review of the Mexican Department of Labor and Social Welfare's publishing of rules outlining an employer’s obligation to develop and implement detailed employee training
programs that will foster productivity.

This interactive session will demonstrate how corporate counsel should react when their organization is hit with major litigation, including a governmental investigation targeting directors and officers. Attendees will participate in a “What should you do next?” discussion using electronic voting and Q&A throughout the session. By walking through the phases of a crisis as it typically unfolds, the panel will cover critical issues such as formation of special board committees, internal investigations, government disclosure, media strategy, hiring outside counsel, directors and officers (D&O) insurance and indemnification rights, attorney–client privilege concerns and must-know areas of D&O liability exposure. Special focus will be given to corporations with a global footprint that face exposure across international lines. The panel will use sample cases pulled from recent headlines, including insider trading investigations; cases involving the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act; whistleblower cases and cases involving faulty accounting and disclosure allegations.

The Clorox Company, after implementing a program focused on cost savings and driving incremental value, realized a significant cost savings in intellectual property matters.

This resource details Prudential Financial's structured approach to project management, including a Project Management Office, focusing on project definition, scope, risk assessment, training, and review.

This article discusses the critical decisions that are pending before courts and legislators in 2023 that promise to shape the future of the 340B Drug Pricing Program (340B Program), which provides discounts on outpatient drugs for certain health care providers, referred to as “covered entities.” The resolution of these issues will have an enormous financial impact on the health care industry, including pharmaceutical manufacturers, 340B hospitals, and federal grantees.

Significant amendments to the Canadian Trademarks Act are expected to come into force at the end of 2015 or in early 2016, according to the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO). Detailed amendments appear in Bill C-31 entitled Economic Action Plan 2014 Act, No. 1.