How litigation finance has moved on from being just a 'one trick pony' into something that multiple teams, departments and external stakeholders have to handle.
American bank robber Willie Sutton famously explained that he robbed banks “because that’s where the money is.” Given Sutton’s compelling logic, perhaps we should not be surprised that the latest banking scandal to come to light involves manipulation of the global foreign exchange markets where an astonishing $5.3 trillion is traded daily.<br /><br />
This is a sample promissory note between the maker of a product and its holder.
Unfortunately, no organization is immune from criminal conduct by employees, including management-level officers. This article discusses how to deal with suspected criminal misconduct by employees.
In this interview, Brigitte Catellier, vice president, legal affairs and secretary, Astral Media, Inc., shares some of her personal experiences, essential in-house leadership qualities and her key takeaways from "Profiles of Women at the Head of Legal Departments: The Key to Their Success – Quebec."
A consultant agreement that includes provisions regarding the expected services, term, reimbursements, independent contractor status, confidentiality, advertising, confidentiality, intellectual property rights, indemnity, and other considerations.
Why are General Counsels (GCs) being overlooked for board roles, even though many are company secretaries to their company’s boards of directors and have the most experience and exposure to the boards? In this article, find out more about how this happens and ways to move forward.
Australia has been criticized in the past for its lack of direction in adopting Artificial Intelligence (AI). However, the Australian government has been working to reinvent its approach to coordinate government policy and national capability to make Australia a leading digital economy within the next decade. This article provides an overview of the steps the government is taking to achieve that objective.
The Coronavirus pandemic has seen a boost in popularity in alternative dispute resolution processes, which obviously face some technical and logistical challenges, but have also shown to aid in facilitating dispute resolution in a flexible and cost-effective measure. The article also provides sample contract clauses for parties to consider including as part of their process so that all of the guidelines are explicitly laid out.
Provides guidance on how legal departments can leverage their company's internal knowledge in facilitating compliance and managing outside counsel. Provides specific examples of strategies applied when complying with the EU's REACH regulations.
This checklist sets forth a list of questions to ask when considering whether to purchase cloud services and when negotiating a cloud services agreement.
This relatively short document responds to the increasingly frequent pleas made by practitioners for guidance on the ethical standards applicable to party representatives in international arbitration. But is it the solution everyone was hoping for?
This article relates to the case Tervita Corp. v. Canada (Commissioner of Competition) in which the Supreme Court of Canada considered, for the first time, the analytical framework for prevention of competition cases and the statutory efficiency defense.
This white paper discusses some of the intricacies of Canada's Competition Law, with a specific focus on provisions related to coordination among competitors, abuse of dominance, and mergers.
This is a sample letter of intent.
This is a sample letter of intent regarding real estate purchase.
An inter partes review challenging the validity of a patent is normally barred after one year from service of a complaint. However, 35 USC § 315(b) says the time limit doesn’t apply to a motion to join, which has been interpreted to allow filing an IPR after one year with a motion to join the other IPR. The window for doing this is within one month of institution of the IPR to be joined (37 CFR § 42.122(b)). This situation often occurs in multi-case, multi-defendant litigation. The question then becomes should you join, and if so, how.
Material Adverse Change clauses are common in credit agreements, but are rarely interpreted by the courts. This article reviews cases when a lender’s knowledge of pre-existing financial circumstances at the time of granting credit is considered when assessing whether a material change has occurred.
This article is an AmecTek compliance case study.
Learn how the role of Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) is similar to and different from your role as in-house counsel. How do you instill a compliance culture in your company? How do you convince senior management to allocate sufficient resources to support the program? What liability do you have as the CCO, and should you consider liability insurance? When does the attorney–client privilege cover compliance matters? What about the “quality improvement” privilege? What are the pros and cons of various reporting structures? These and many other questions will be answered in this session.
This presentation discusses growth in connected devices, importance of standards, guidelines, changes in patent licensing.
ACC Comments re Iowa In-House Fees Proposal
In this presentation the presenter exposes the factors in-house counsel should consider when deciding to opt for arbitration vs. litigation or vice-versa.
In this resource, Beveridge & Diamond covers the recent proposed rules on climate-related disclosures voted on by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
In 2004, The Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission developed an “Enterprise Risk Management – Integrated Framework” that, to this day, has not been widely adopted. This article looks at the reasons behind this and offers advice to companies that do not regularly and thoroughly manage their enterprise risks.
Learn some tips and insights as to how in-house counsel can destress and refocus on their work.
ACC Docket's Business Ethics columnist discusses internal investigations in the July/August 2016 issue.
In October's Business Ethics column, James Nortz discusses conscious capitalism.
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