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This brief resource (Top Ten) is an overview of ten industry challenges that all health care lawyers should be aware of.

This is a sample guarantee agreement between a company and a financial institution.

Early BIM demonstration projects have achieved savings of around 20% in the construction phase, some projects are expected to make a 33% cost savings over the life of the project and future projects are targeting even greater savings. Read more about BIM in this article.

This article contains the chapter covering Australia and information regarding enforcement, appeals and damages in that country.

Covers mediation processes and the difference between mediation and arbitration.

A presentation on the do's and don't's of human relations.

A policy that creates mandatory guidelines for the company to manage, maintain, and dispose of records in an orderly, reasonable, and lawful manner.

This primer is a a guide for volunteer directors of charities, cause organizations, trade nonprofit organizations, professional societies and other nonprofit organizations.

This is a sample master professional services subcontracting agreement.

This is a sample master professional services subcontracting agreement.

This decision by the High Court of Australia highlights the importance of carefully drafting reasonable endeavours clauses. Where it is commercially acceptable, it would be prudent for an obligee to seek to include express, specific and objective boundaries on the obligor's conduct.

The greatest pleasure, and the greatest challenge, of being a privacy lawyer is the need to be both an ethicist ‰Š,,and a pragmatist. Oftentimes we find ourselves advising companies not just on what is the legal thing to do, but what is the right thing to do (and, no, the two aren’t always one and the same); while, on other occasions, our impediments presented by the law.

This is a sample form of payoff letter.

A sample statement of style for the drafting of contracts.

An area of growing interest among corporate legal departments (and law firms) as a means of improving efficiency is the use of contract automation.

How many employees have you had off work sick in the last year? Do you struggle to manage these absences? Would more detailed medical information about each employee's condition help you? Two recent cases provide useful guidance for employers in obtaining, and using employee medical reports.

The Stark Law is more properly, if less frequently, referred to as the federal physician self-referral law. Read this article to learn more.

A recent decision in Australian law suggests that management action will be viewed as a whole, and not with a focus on each step taken. This approach may indicate that the anti-bullying jurisdiction may provide even less relief for workers than previously thought. Read more to find out how this will impact anti-harassment protocol in your company.

This article contains ten things to know about corruption in Germany.

This is a sample anti-harassment policy.

This sample policy shows the requirements for employers to cover eligible employees under the Family Medical Leave Act.

Hong Kong now has its own set of recommended best practices for the development and use of AI published issued by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD). Learn the potential risk levels of using an AI system and suggested measures to implement for better protection of individual consumers.

This article delves into the Consultation Conclusions on Proposed Enhancements to the Open-ended Fund Companies Regime (OFC) and Further Consultation on Customer Due Diligence Requirements, published by Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission. Issued on 2 September 2020, the Consultation Conclusion, the Consultation Conclusion highlights different enhancements to be made to private OFCs.

On 8 February 2021, the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) of Hong Kong (SFC) issues a consultation paper, which if successfully enacted as it was proposed, would have an impact on the way in which public offerings of equity and debt securities are made in Hong Kong. The following article provides an overview on the provisions of the consultation paper and the specific effects of its inaction.

In December 2020, the Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau (FSTB) of the government of Hong Kong issued a proposal to provide tax concession for interest distributed by eligible private equity funds which operate in Hong Kong. This proposal summarised and addressed comments and feedback from a prior response issued by the government of Hong Kong in August 2020. This article is a detailed submission on the August 2020 proposal.

The Venezuelan Labor Law for Workers (LOTTT) - in force since 2012 - has established some restrictions on outsourcing. Among the most important provision of the LOTTT is an employer’s obligation to absorb outsourced workers into the company’s payroll as employees before May 7, 2015.