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 sample list of lease issues that occur in real estate due diligence in mergers and acquisitions transactions.

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.