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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!

This brief article presents tips regarding how in-house lawyers can protect the attorney-client privilege under US law.

In this quick overview (QuickCounsel) are five upfront tactics to help you to proactively manage the litigation process right from the start and effectively minimise your overall costs.

This Wisdom of the Crowd (ACC member discussion) addresses whether failure to notify sales prospects that their sales calls are being recorded, and without their consent (and potentially a violation of US state laws), serves as enough of a business risk to alert firm management that they should alter this organizational practice. This resource was compiled from questions and responses posted on the forum of the IT, Privacy and eCommerce ACC Network.

This Wisdom of the Crowd, compiled from responses posted on the Employment & Labor Law eGroup, addresses an issue regarding automatic termination after a certain period of leave.

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 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.

This article was published in the Tech Toolbox column of the ACC Docket, ACC's award-winning publication. If you work for a multinational company, your department should be striving to harness all of the global resources to manage data transfer across borders.

Attracted by higher savings in such onshore/ near-shore locations, along with the benefits of servicing clients within the same time zone, law firms have started to invest in onshore services alongside traditional overseas and offshore options. This article addresses how law firms and LPOs can best mold themselves for such a market.

This is a memorandum outlining the revised guidelines on the use of expedited settlement agreements.

ACC leaders outline the association's position on civil justice reform (CJR) and discuss how to get involved.

This article profiles Michael Hartman, senior vice president and general counsel of DIRECTV Latin America, and his international legal team. Hartman strives to maintain a bird’s-eye view of the pan-regional operations and allows every subsidiary the leeway to function independently as specialized circumstances dictate. The legal department prides itself on being nimble and non-bureaucratic, something it accomplishes by keeping lines of communication open.