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This Value Practice Resource describes how Squire Sanders challenges its attorneys to remedy disconnects between costs for outside legal services and value the client receives.

Proposed rule requires registration of Virginia in-house counsel not licensed in the Commonwealth, includes CLE requirements, professional responsibility exam and character and fitness application.

Guidelines developed by Royal Bank of Canada for their Demand Management practices used to engage outside counsel.

Sample position description for chief compliance description.

Swiss Executive Employment Agreement

This article discusses the unanimous US Supreme Court decision that has effectively disavowed the long-standing de minimis standard in Groff v. Dejoy, clarifying Title VII's undue hardship standard to mean "substantial increased costs in relation to the conduct of its particular business."

This article discusses the friendly-PC model, which is a common structure designed to comply with state corporate practice of medicine doctrines. The friendly-PC model involves a professional service corporation (PSC) conducting a medical practice in affiliation with a management services organization (MSO).

Although the friendly-PC model may be a solution to the corporate practice of medicine doctrine, it can create unintended consequences for employee benefit plans sponsored by the PSC and MSO.

This Update concerns a measure proposed in Canada’s federal budget for 2014, tabled by the Minister of Finance on February 11, 2014 (Budget 2014), relating to treaty shopping that may affect private equity (PE) funds investing in Canada through treaty-based holding companies.

This article shows how directors must be proactive in ensuring that they are properly advised about the scope of their insurance coverage, and that they then provide appropriate oversight to ensure that the bank secures a strong coverage program in light of what currently is available in the D&O insurance marketplace.

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

This program will focus attention on top strategies that litigators can deploy in re-shaping early case assessment and case management to focus on value, efficiency, predictability and outcome, rather than lawyer activities and piles of billable hours. Our goal: to help you help your client know that the company's litigation docket is delivering maximum value and ROI. Join us as we look at how innovative leading practices in departments and firms which are redefining corporate litigation strategies.

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.

Why do corporations lose in high-stakes litigation before juries? A number of factors may be to blame—including plaintiffs portraying corporations as uncaring monsters long before any parties set foot in the courtroom. For many years now, the Plaintiffs’ Bar has used litigation tactics consistent with the “Reptile Theory” to gain an advantage in the litigation and influence the ultimate outcome in the courtroom. In this presentation, we will address ways to combat these tactics by transforming the perception of the company from the inception of the case in the United States.

This publication has been prepared to provide an overview to foreign investors and business people who have an interest in doing business in Turks & Caicos.

When your company is involved in an M&A transaction, it is easy to focus on the typical labor issues that come about, like collective bargaining agreements, pensions,and the WARN Act. However, in-house counsel need to concern themselves with the impact that coemployment can have on the transaction, considering the fact that leased employees are not normally regarded as "employees" during the M&A process.

In-house counsel charged with implementing the whisleblowing mandates of Sarbanes-Oxley usually bemoan their fate. Yet, the whistleblower provisions of SOX also represent an opportunity to use whistleblowers as a valuable internal early warning system for illegal conduct and other wrongdoing. Read this article to find out how.

In this article key questions are answered by leading practitioners regarding private antitrust litigation.

In this Gall HK guidebook, “The Hong Kong Employment Law Handbook - COVID-19 Edition,” the most asked queries pertaining to issues that arisen as a direct result of the coronavirus pandemic are answered. These queries include such issues as working from home (WFH), to working from abroad, to unpaid leave and annual leave, redundancies and restructurings, compulsory testing and vaccinations, as well as occupational health and safety.

Product Liability Advisory Council, PLAC, amicus brief, Textron v. US, 1/10

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.

A shared intranet will provide you with easy access to legal resources, documents, and work product, but what are the risks? What are the risks of a shared intranet to the attorney-client privilege and work product doctrine? What steps should you take to reduce those risks?

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

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.

This is a sample policy that provides procedures for the review, approval, execution, and maintenance of contracts.

As the nature of in-house counsel's responsibilities change, so do their work environments. In this article, learn how to keep in touch, interact and succeed with a physically dispersed team.

There’s no doubt that the attorney-client and work product privileges are critical tools to ensure that your clients receive optimal advice. In this decidedly different strategy regarding the use of privilege, however, Laura Effel, of Baker & McKenzie, demonstrates why you may want to think twice about conducting certain privileged investigations.

Blind spots are more than just driving hazards. Business leaders should be aware of ethical blind spots. This article offers examples of blind spots in corporate settings and gives advice on how to avoid calamity.

As the senior labor relations, compliance, and business principle for Nestlé in Portugal, Joana Guerra is constantly called upon to ensure company compliance with changing labor standards.

This article discusses the importance and specifics of international SOX compliance.

Columnist Phil Strauss draws lessons from the weight room and applies them to in-house practice.