This article explores how counsel can effectively manage the large volumes of records created.

This panel will discuss a rational and balanced approach to contracting major IT implementation projects. Service providers will seek to focus on scope of service and shifting project risk to the customer by limiting their liability contractually. In-house counsel will also seek to limit their company’s contractual risk, seek to push for ownership of intellectual property created during the project and require short implementation timelines. The panelists will explain how these opposing needs can be balanced, how to select IT service providers and lessons learned.

This is a list of helpful questions and answers to consider when dealing with arbitration procedures in the UAE.

Discusses the benefits of having one individual handle the responsibilities of both legal and regulatory affairs and how this combination can work best for you.

This is a sample policy showing how to develop a comprehensive strategy for when to settle and when to litigate

The column discusses the evolution of the feedback clause, and how it affects companies both big and small.

Bill Ojile, chief legal and administrative officer for Alta Colleges, Inc., shares his daily routine, including his favorite conference call.

This article promotes the value of self-reflection as a way to live more ethically, noting how it takes the practitioner through four phases.

The author reflects on why Take-Your-Child-to-Work days once made him feel uneasy. He concludes that while making sure his company is compliant may not be exciting as arresting bad guys, it is still something that a young child can understand.

"If there were an instruction manual to a legal career, networking and mentoring would appear as topics on the quick-start page." Read Julienne Bramesco's insightful words on the long and winding path of an in-house legal career.

The Netherlands has some very specific regulations when it comes to employees and their employment rights. In this article, in-house counsel will learn about dismissal laws, salary rights, immigration issues and non-compete clauses. This resource was published by Meritas in February 2018.

As stretched legal teams struggle to keep up with expanded responsibilities, managing attorneys may need to take a more active role in helping staff members set priorities, rebalance their workloads and identify when additional assistance may be needed. An especially important skill for those who manage legal professionals today along with a full workload of their own is to know how and when to delegate tasks. Here are some tips for using this proven management tool to maximize the contributions of everyone on a team.

This article gives an overview of the results of the 2012 Robert Half Legal Salary Guide.

You are an American company expanding its business into China. You have just clinched a highly coveted multi-million-dollar deal, documented in a one hundred-page contract that seems to cover every conceivable hiccup. But that lucrative deal, which took months to close, may not be as airtight as you imagine. If a dispute arises between your company and your Chinese business partner, how can you resolve it? The Chinese business may have assets in China, but again it is difficult to enforce a US judgment in China: The two superpowers do not yet have reciprocal arrangements to recognize judgments from each other’s courts. This article explains how to manage and resolve disputes in China, and, where possible, avoid them altogether.

This is a sample Software Development Kit license agreement.

The Competition Act ("CA") is federal legislation of general
application related to all aspects of competition law in Canada, including merger review. The CA sets out the relevant monetary and (where applicable) shareholding thresholds that trigger a pre-
merger notification requirement. The CA also allows the Commissioner of Competition (the "Commissioner") to challenge a transaction if she believes it raises substantive competition issues, whether or not there is a pre-merger notification
requirement.

An article focusing on developing the business savvy of the legal department to the benefit of the business as a whole.

The session will cover important recent US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) developments since the 2014 ACC Annual Meeting. The program will review significant enforcement actions and trends as well as recent SEC developments related to cybersecurity, conflict minerals, social media, whistleblowing and disclosure reform. Presenters will also examine those sections of Dodd–Frank that matter most to corporate and securities lawyers in their day-to-day practices, including providing advice to management and board members. They will review the network of regulations that have been adopted pursuant to those sections, and report on the status of regulations not yet adopted by the SEC. The session will be a fast-moving program; come equipped with a working knowledge of the 1933 Act and the 1934 Act.

This is a sample management agreement where Company 1 holds all management rights in connection with the Property.

This session will discuss how in-house lawyers can use risk management principles (e.g. appetite, identification, qualification, treatment and monitoring) to negotiate contract terms and more effectively manage risks while progressing deals to closure. Topics to be addressed include hosting and consulting agreements, and other transactions in which risks can easily outweigh the compensation.

Normally the appeals process begins right after you’ve been on the receiving end of an unfavorable trial court decision. Take a different perspective and increase your odds of successful appeals with the authors’ in-on-the-ground-floor approach.

Taxonomy introduction and instructions on building a taxonomy as part of your department’s Knowledge Management program.

This program will explore the best practices for companies that manage vendors and cybersecurity concerns. Some of the significant questions to be addressed include: What are some best practices for vendor due diligence? How can vendor cybersecurity risks be addressed and mitigated, both contractually and otherwise? What role, if any, should in-house counsel have in vendor management?

Credit funds are increasingly marketed to French insurance companies (entreprises d'assurance). Other similar institutions, such as contingency institutions (institutions de prévoyance) and complementary pension institutions (institutions de retraite complémentaire), also appear as an important source of debt financing. Learn more about this here.