The Company Law of the People’s Republic of China currently in force adopts a company registration system under supervision. Specific rules within the legislation cover a registered capital system requiring a minimum amount of registered capital, a certain capital contribution period and a minimum ratio of cash contribution.
This article reviews the recent amendments to the law. This reform relaxed the governmental supervision required and will see significant innovations in the company registration system, especially in the registered capital aspect.
Analytics 2.0: Extreme Makeover - Law Department Metrics Edition
Legal teams are in an enviable position, at the heart of a business. We are a constant that enables us to become part of the DNA of our business. Used well, technology can augment our collective knowledge. However, knowledge management is not only about technology, it’s also about people: individuals, teams, communities, organisations. We will look at how technology provides unparalleled support to small and large law departments that may be internationally located, enabling them to deliver timely responses accurately and adding even greater value; a value that can be measured and demonstrated to the business.
To assist in-house counsel to understand the class action landscape and the potential risks their organisations face, the authors have analysed class action filings over the last decade. This data reveals both the enduring and emerging trends and provides an insight into the future.
As in-house counsel, adopting a variety of roles is part of the job description. In this column, the author discusses the different hats she has grown accustomed to wearing throughout her career.
This article takes a look at the role of external counsel and their effectiveness at doing a job well and billing a client fairly in the process.
Two fixed-fee arrangements between Bracewell & Giuliani and two clients are highlighted in this Value Practice piece.
News, Notes, and Datebook Information for November 2007
April 2008- Tolls & Solutions for Doing Your Job Better
Instructions for Business Unit Quarterly Compliance Reports for a global compliance report. This resource was part of ACC's 2012 Compliance and Ethics Training Program.
This article provide relevant information and practice tips to in-house counsel about President Biden's October 2023 executive order on artificial intelligence.
This sample whistleblower policy encourages staff and volunteers to come forward with credible information on illegal practices or serious violations of adopted policies of the organization; specifies that the organization will protect the person from retaliation; and identifies where such information can be reported.
To access the other sample governance policies referred to in this cover letter, visit the following URLs:
-Conflict of Interest Policy: https://www.acc.com/resource-library/conflict-interest-policy-2015
-Document Retention and Destruction Policy: https://www.acc.com/resource-library/document-retention-and-destruction-policy
-Policy on the Process for Determining Compensation: https://www.acc.com/resource-library/policy-process-determining-compensation
-Joint Venture Policy: https://www.acc.com/resource-library/joint-venture-policy
You may not know it, but intellectual property considerations and implications are everywhere in your company. And if you think you are immune, or it is someone else’s job because you practice real estate, or employment, or tax law, or are a generalist, then think again. Copyright, trademark, licensing, trade secrets, patent matters, and other IP issues can raise their heads almost anywhere. This session will help you identify what these issues look like so that you can respond accordingly. It will also teach you to take the necessary steps to protect valuable corporate assets and not infringe on the intellectual property rights of others.
This short article addresses how a growing number of shareholder activist campaigns in the United States are being backed—often secretly—by long-term investors, which may be signaling a sea change in investor attitudes.
Sample retention letter for DC law firm with several options for advanced waiver language.
This Document Retention and Destruction Policy identifies the record retention responsibilities of staff, volunteers, members of the Board of Directors, and outsiders for maintaining and documenting the storage and destruction of the Organization’s documents and records.
To access the other sample governance policies referred to in this cover letter, visit the following URLs:
-Conflict of Interest Policy: http://www.acc.com/legalresources/resource.cfm?show=1413466
-Whistleblower Policy: http://www.acc.com/legalresources/resource.cfm?show=1413472
-Policy on the Process for Determining Compensation: http://www.acc.com/legalresources/resource.cfm?show=1413483
-Joint Venture Policy: http://www.acc.com/legalresources/resource.cfm?show=1413487
This sample policy on the process for determining compensation applies to the compensation of the chief employed executive and other officers or key employees of the organization.
To access the other sample governance policies referred to in this cover letter, visit the following URLs:
-Conflict of Interest Policy: http://www.acc.com/legalresources/resource.cfm?show=1413466
-Whistleblower Policy: http://www.acc.com/legalresources/resource.cfm?show=1413472
-Document Retention and Destruction Policy: http://www.acc.com/legalresources/resource.cfm?show=1413478
-Joint Venture Policy: http://www.acc.com/legalresources/resource.cfm?show=1413487
For both in-house and outside counsel, being the best lawyer is not always about exhaustive application of legal skills. It may seem counterintuitive to some lawyers, but sometimes less is really more.
Kenneth Cutshaw underscores the importance of LPO in this must-read article.
In this article, columnist Kenneth Cutshaw discusses possible positive effects on lawyers in other countries that have the opportunity to undertake challenging global legal work as a result of the recession, describing the differences between these outsourced individuals and in-house counsel.
The author relays a personal experience in order to emphasize the point that young adults should be allowed to experience the full weight of their decisions, instead of having the consequences of their choices mitigated by misguided university policies.
This is a sample form of promissory note.
This is the second of two columns lightheartedly assessing technologies, measurement tools, and outside counsel management techniques specifically for the people in legal departments.
This sample joint venture policy applies to any joint ownership or contractual arrangement through which there is an agreement to jointly undertake a specific business enterprise, investment, or exempt-purpose activity as further defined in this policy.
To access the other sample governance policies referred to in this cover letter, visit the following URLs:
-Conflict of Interest Policy: http://www.acc.com/legalresources/resource.cfm?show=1413466
-Whistleblower Policy: http://www.acc.com/legalresources/resource.cfm?show=1413472
-Document Retention and Destruction Policy: http://www.acc.com/legalresources/resource.cfm?show=1413478
-Policy on the Process for Determining Compensation: http://www.acc.com/legalresources/resource.cfm?show=1413483
Australian insurers, brokers and other entities involved at the various stages of insurance claims handling need to consider the impact of the claims handling reform by reviewing all steps in their claims procedures for each relevant insurance product. In this article, the impacts of those reforms are explained.
There is reason to question whether increased shareholder influence on matters that the law has traditionally apportioned to the board is at the expense of other values that are key to the sustainability of healthy corporations. These concerns underlie the issues that will define the state of governance in 2015 and likely beyond.
Fresh out of law school and ready to take on the world? Have some experience under you belt, but want to move up? Get advice from another young in-house attorney. Discover how best to serve your clients and make a good impression.
Lean Forward...and Beyond
This article shows arbitration practitioners involved in a trust arbitration.
A motion for leave to file brief and an attached brief regarding the critical importance both to corporations engaged in interstate commerce that receive legal advice and representation from out-of-state lawyers and to the attorneys (whether in-house or outside counsel) who provide such multi-state services.
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