This is a sample merchandising license agreement.
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.
This Management Report provides an overview of discussion results from ACC’s Law Department
Executive Leadership session entitled, “Global Law Departments, Alternative Fee Structures & Value,”
held in Boston on October 19, 2009.
The Association of Corporate Counsel and Laurence Simons surveyed corporate legal departments to learn more about their teams in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). The ACC/Laurence Simons 2012 EMEA Legal Department Survey is available to members and non-members.
The aim of the RDL is to improve and clarify certain aspects of the rules governing outof-court protected refinancing arrangements and the so-called Spanish scheme or "homologación judicial" whilst trying to solve other inefficiencies of the legal regime applying to those refinancing arrangements that have arisen in practice. This is a preliminary review that we thought should be shared with you as soon as possible given the number of current debt restructurings that may be affected by its content.
Both the Russian and French courts considered asymmetric clauses to be inequitable and as such, invalid. In light of these decisions, caution should be exercised whenever you are considering incorporating an asymmetric clause.
The concept of credentialing by proxy is designed to offer hospitals that wish to expand their services through telemedicine (referred to as “originating site hospitals”, or the sites where patients receiving the telemedicine services are located) a streamlined credentialing process for credentialing distant site telemedicine practitioners.
Sometimes organizations want to refer to outside records management and Information Governance standards and frameworks to ensure their program is both meeting standards as well as industry best practices. The table below details the more prominent frameworks and standards.
Brief overview of considerations when investing in high-growth markets, including intellectual property rights, dispute resolution, corruption, and human rights issues.
This is a cybersecurity checklist for Boards of Directors.
A sample confidentiality letter in regards to exploring a possible merger, acquisition, joint venture, or similar transaction. Confidential information will be provided to the other party upon execution and return of this letter. After the letter is signed, it becomes a binding agreement between the parties that is construed under Michigan law.
Business Ethics Columnist James A. Nortz asked business school students and business leaders for their thoughts on workplace ethics. The results ranged from heartening to shocking.
ACC Docket talks Hollywood and sports with Danielle Van Lier, senior counsel, intellectual property and contracts of SAG-AFTRA.
Frank Fletcher discusses how understanding the underlying technology of your business can help make you a better service provider.
In this moving column, written following the experience of personal tragedy, Whitnie Henderson reflects on the importance of balancing work with other key elements of one's life.
Being a legal counsel within such the dynamic region of Australia-Pacific requires a constant desire to adapt to the evolving economic, industry and legal conditions. Learn seven methods to expand your impact and develop your career.
In this short article, learn the importance of interpersonal relationships in business, particularly to persuade people.
The author discusses how best to go about developing effective relationships with business partners, especially those abroad.
More than 350 in-house lawyers from 30+ countries celebrated the 20th anniversary of ACC Europe and discussed today’s biggest challenges at the ACC Europe Annual Conference in London. A rich program of sessions on specialist legal and business subjects, networking events and social gatherings filled the two-and-a-half day conference, providing delegates the opportunity to discuss the latest trends affecting in-house counsel.
A letter arguing that imposing an additional permissive exclusion penalty on "responsible corporate officers" would undermine that the primary goal of the laws governing heavily regulated industries, which should be to encourage and incentivize the best behavior possible from senior management by lining up their interests with the interests of public protection.
Provides examples of strategies that firms can use to create a competitive advantage. Includes advice such as keeping fee rates in step with the local market, fostering collaboration, creating efficiencies, and encouraging diversity.
This is a technology helpdesk for lawyers regarding Siri.
Law firms and their client companies have been adjusting their long-term growth strategies to more fully address environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) issues, particularly to help organizations improve their own sustainability and communicate their societal impact. Learn how to incorporate these values and systems into your work.
This article highlights the importance of protecting one’s FinTech products and innovations. One means of protecting FinTech innovations is through Intellectual Property (IP) laws. In particular, the IP laws of Hong Kong provide a variety of mechanisms to ensure the protection of FinTech products.
This article provides a brief summary into changes that the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) have each made to their existing rules. Specifically, both organizations have embraced technologies that were necessary to adapt to the changes brought on by the coronavirus pandemic (such as the use of electronic communications and remote hearings).
As in-house counsel, you're corresponding with a variety of people, not just other lawyers. It's important that in-house counsel can write and communicate using non-lawyer language. Plain language isn’t about making language
boring; it's about ‘succinct writing that has a defined audience and purpose. With it the reader can easily find, understand and use the information they need’.
This article highlights the importance of conducting security risk assessments in “hot” regions where kidnappings, abductions and suicide bombings are on the rise. The resource also discusses the importance of training employees regarding risks of security incidents.
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