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An overview of the Saudi legal and court system.

This is an excerpt from Heineman’s published book, The Inside Counsel Revolution: Resolving the Partner-Guardian Tension.

Sample terms of engagement for external counsel between an association and outside counsel.

Panelists provide an overview of legal project management techniques and tools. They share war stories and engage you in a discussion about best practices for scoping projects, managing teams and budgets, communicating to stakeholders, addressing scope creep, and conducting post project reviews.

This is a sample license for use of licensor's product agreement.

This is a sample master consulting services agreement.

This is a sample Independent Contractor Agreement.

Take it up a level! When it comes to licensing rights to music and video, ensure that you are covering all of your legal bases. This advanced session will offer hypotheticals and practical guidelines on how to assess your company's needs and secure the requisite permissions, clearances and licenses. From music licensing — American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI), and the Society of European Stage Authors and Composers (SESAC) — to movie and TV licensing — Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) and Motion Picture Licensing Corporation (MPLC) — this panel will examine the current public-performance licensing world and offer tips for the "what, when and how." This is one informative panel you don't want to miss!

This is a sample consulting contract between a corporation and an independent contractor.

As companies continue to expand their global operations, in-house counsel must simultaneously broaden their understanding of international labor and employment issues and learn to identify potential compliance challenges in the global marketplace. This interactive session will employ several hypothetical scenarios to explore the latest challenges facing multinational employers and best practices for managing a global workforce.

This study looks at the fundamentally different experiences of law students when it comes to racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds, and provides information about how these differences may impact their professional opportunities.

For questions about the report, please contact centerforwomeninlaw@law.utexas.edu or info@nalpfoundation.org.

This brief filed by Washington Legal Foundation (WLF) and the US Chamber focuses on issues that create additional personal liabilities for in-house counsel and defense counsel in general; the zealous representation, level of communication and overall relationship of in-house counsel and their clients; and Document retention policies and the resulting liabilities for those who administer them.

A sample engagement terms policy.

How do in-house counsel deal with ethically sensitive situations before they rise to a legal risk? Panelists will examine real-life ethical issues anonymously submitted by participants and examine ethical risks and possible solutions. Audience perspective and participation is welcome! While not limited to an examination of the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, this session will discuss selected rules in the context of the scenarios presented such as MRPC 1.6 (Confidentiality of Information); 1.13 (Organization as Client); 4.1 (Truthfulness in Statements to Others).

This is a consulting agreement between an independent contractor and a California based corporation.

This is a sample services agreement between a provider and company.

Bad news hits front pages and TV screens every week: Ever-larger data breaches affect millions of trusted companies' customers. The good news is the buyer’s market for cyber insurance; businesses can shop not only on the basis of price but for policy terms that cover actual risks. Traditional lines of coverage (including crime, property, general liability and directors and officers) can provide coverage when a breach occurs, although new exclusions are pushing more businesses toward specialty policies. In this evolving market, it’s essential to analyze existing coverage and terms offered in competing cyber policies. This session will spotlight key policy provisions to demand and others to avoid. The panelists will view cyber insurance in the risk management context, including prevention and post-breach planning. They will outline an approach to cyber security equally focused on human factors: building staff awareness and the right protocols.

This is a sample master purchase agreement.

A template of a consultancy agreement that defines the fees, obligations, confidentiality, and liabilities of the consultant. The agreement also defines the obligations and rights to intellectual property of the company.

This is a sample confidentiality agreement between two companies where one company has subsidiaries.

This sample survey is designed to assess client feedback. Asks questions related to satisfaction with legal services, projected legal needs, and training needs.

This is sample confidentiality agreement between two Delaware corporations where each company desires to protect the confidentiality of the information that it provides and to have the other party take or abstain from taking certain actions in accordance with the provisions of the Agreement.

This is a sample confidentiality agreement between two companies where the recipient desires that the company provide certain information in order to enable recipient to evaluate the possibility of entering into a definitive agreement with respect to the acquisition of the company by recipient.

This is a sample services agreement between a service provider and a company.

Written Testimony
United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary
"Examining Approaches to Corporate Fraud Prosecutions and the Attorney-Client
Privilege Under the McNulty Memorandum"
October 18, 2007

In the past few years, there have been headline-grabbing government investigations of foreign companies in the European Union (EU) and China. A number of these investigations relate to anti-trust, anti-bribery and corruption matters. It is critical for the legal departments of companies operating in the EU and China to be prepared for these sorts of investigations, ensuring that the business can react quickly and deal successfully with the government inquiry at a very tense and stressful time. The panel will look at the reasons for government investigations in the EU and China, what in-house counsel need to do to prepare their companies for the possibility of a government investigation (including the dreaded dawn raid) and provide practical tips for dealing with government investigations in the EU and China.