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To limit the risks of significant civil fines and potential criminal prosecutions based upon allegations of hiring or continuing to employ unauthorized workers, employers must ensure that their I-9 compliance systems are effective.

An item for your bulletin board, this series of checklists covers project scoping, budgeting, post project reviews and lines of communications. It also includes best practices culled from discussions among a large gathering of inside and outside counsel, as well as a sample project kick-off meeting agenda.

Common Value-Based Fees; Most/least appropriate uses for each VBF; Typical friction points in negotiating & implementing VBFs; Common reasons VBFs do not produce desired results; and Tips on avoiding misses are addressed in this resource.

In-house counsel often play a critical role in hiring and firing—not to mention disciplining, compensating and evaluating—an organization's top leadership, requiring navigation of delicate legal and political issues. A panel of seasoned in-house counsel will share success stories, guiding principles, obstacles, regrets and lessons learned.

Utilizing the practices in this "How To" resource can improve a Legal Department’s approach to engaging vendors, which contributes to better services overall.

This article provides an overview of current trends in using AI systems to meet the challenge of extracting clinically useful information from highly complex genomic data.

An article reviewing SEC rules on management reports on internal control over financial reporting and related requirements applicable to audit committees. Includes an in depth overview of the required elements of the management report, auditor independence considerations, amendments to CEO and CFO certification requirements, and other considerations.

Discusses how to provide a beneficial, engaging global legal conference.

Effective September 4, 2013, the Government of Manitoba proclaimed into force The Public-Private Partnerships Transparency and Accountability Act. The Act applies to all major capital projects undertaken by public sector entities in which a P3 procurement method is used. The term “public sector entity” includes municipalities and other local government entities as well as the Government of Manitoba.

This is an act to amend Title 8 of the Delaware Code relating to the General Counsel Corporation law.

Embedded within the Affordable Care Act (ACA) are significant employment litigation risks that have virtually nothing to do with the structure or content of health insurance plans. Read on to learn more.

When developing a records retention schedule or creating a data map, it is often useful to create an inventory of all the types of information in the enterprise. This article provides an overview of how to inventory that information.

Demonstrating the Value of the Legal Team: Create a True Competitve Advantage for the Enterprise

Teeming with natural resources, sunshine, fertile lands and an educated workforce, Guatemala mirrors its Central American neighbors in both resources and the dichotomy of its socioeconomic structure. However, rampant crime and corruption, coupled with a byzantine legal landscape, can sometimes outweigh the advantages of this Central American nation of 15.7 million, the most populated in the region.

In-house counsel are constantly called to manage the many challenges that come across their desks while remaining compliant in a scenario of ever increasing regulations. General Counsel and Chief Legal Officers from leading international companies will gather at this dedicated forum to share innovative and forward thinking ways to address their evolving roles. Come to this session if you would like to gain insights into the complexities and challenges some of your in-house colleagues are dealing with or if you would like comfort that you are not alone in tackling such matters.

The author discusses a case involving a contract with an anti-modification clause, and how "always" can come to mean "sometimes."

This checklist shows how the reputational and legal risks associated with not being in control of corporate data should be enough to capture the attention of the corporate C-suite.

This is a sample non-exclusive independent contractor agreement.

As legal departments expand their roles as business partners and compliance advisers, we have seen roles develop outside of the traditional attorney discipline. As with subject matter expertise, certain skills from other professions can assist the department to be more effective. This program will explore the strategic use of program managers, paraprofessionals, and other business experts to enable the delivery of legal services across the legal department and organization more broadly.

The session will cover important recent US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) developments since the 2015 ACC Annual Meeting. The program will review significant enforcement actions and trends as well as recent SEC developments related to the Volcker Rule, shareholder proposals, and the rule for pay ratio disclosure. This program will also examine those sections of the Dodd-Frank Act that matter most to corporate and securities lawyers in their day-to-day practices, including providing advice to management and board members. The session will review the network of regulations that have been adopted pursuant to those sections and report on the status of regulations not yet adopted by the SEC. This will be a fast-moving program; come equipped with a working knowledge of the Securities Exchange Acts of 1933 and 1934.

Learn how the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's policies and regulatory functions may change in the wake of the US Supreme Court's 2024 decision overturning the Chevron doctrine.