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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.

This survey provides research findings regarding the economy's impact on compliance programs, staffing, and budgets within the compliance industry. This survey also examines the job security of compliance professionals, as well as the related measure of management attitudes towards compliance and ethics programs.

Learn ten key issues and tips on seeking to recover insurance proceeds following a crisis.

This is a sample mutual non-disclosure agreement between two companies, one based in Minnesota.

902 - Real Estate Basics: Negotiating & Structuring Commercial Leases & Subleases

This report summarizes the discussions among in-house counsel and leading experts at the 2016 Lex Mundi Emerging Africa Conference in Cape Town in March 2016. The wide range of topics discussed included underlying growth drivers and investment trends, implementing growth strategies in line with local development objectives, changing regulatory frameworks and structuring of transactions to satisfy broad stakeholder interests and public concerns.

This is a sample severance agreement setting out the rights and responsibilities of the employer and the departing executive, including the benefits that the employer will provide to the executive.

This memorandum analyzes key trends regarding diversity in corporations' boards of directors.

This is a sample severance agreement setting out the rights and responsibilities of the employer and the separating executive, as well as the benefits that the employer will provide to the executive.

This article deals with cross-border financial services investigations and gives an overview of the answers across 11 key jurisdictions, and seeks to assist firms in navigating the differing regimes.

This article shows how leaders are increasing their efforts to negotiate contracts that provide a more robust platform for on-going performance 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.

Discusses the cost of behavioral economics in the workplace.

This article addresses how the development and use of mobile technologies and devices is expanding at an incredibly fast pace and is changing, and in fact revolutionizing, the way patients and healthcare providers interact.

This sample form is a checklist of arguments that can apply to any claim/pleading.

This is a sample acceptable use policy for networks and computer systems.

On 4 February 2014, the Singapore High Court, in The Titan Unity (No. 2), confirmed that a non-signatory to an arbitration agreement can be joined in an arbitration only with the consent of all the parties concerned. The decision is of interest, as it highlights the issue of joining non-signatories to an arbitration and consolidation of related arbitration proceedings.

In the second installment of our series providing practical insights into the arbitration process, we examine the key elements of an arbitration clause and the importance of drafting the clause so that it is effective. It should be of particular interest to those unfamiliar with the principles behind providing for arbitration as a dispute resolution procedure in commercial agreements.

This is a sample letter of intent involving a potential transaction.

This presentation tells you what to do when you are the lawyer in charge and the Government arrives at your gate.

In this Sample Exit Interview Form, a United States Company is categorizing access to tools and information from the former employee.

A discussion of the role of the general counsel or chief legal officer in a company and some guidance on how they can develop their leadership skills.

This is the Electronic Code of Federal Regulations equal opportunity clause.

This due diligence list presents key issues to explore when considering to make an investment in or fund a renewable energy company.

ACCA’s policy pursuits can provide you with ammunition for proving the value of in-house counsel to the corporate bottom line.

Cyber-security Crisis Management article - presentation held in Sydney 13 June 2017 and Melbourne 15 June 2017.

The author discusses the importance of effective fact-finding and investigative techniques when it comes to managing risk and making ethical business decisions.

Columnist James A. Nortz dissects the root causes for why the majority of companies fail to pursue ethical corporate cultures.

In May's Tech Toolbox column, Gregory Stern takes his readers through the process of creating Smart-Guides to streamline legal advice.

In this creative piece, author James Nortz draws a parallel between atoms in a laser that create light when stimulated by energy, and stimulating ethical behavior in your law department with positive energy — through a variety of tactics.