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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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sun Microsystems has successfully developed partner relationships with several Legal Provider Organizations (LPO) in India to complete selected legal assignments that are generally process oriented.

This is a sample of frequently asked questions about data privacy for company.

In-house counsel are being seen as responsible for the legal spend on external firms for their companies. This means demonstrating that external legal spend is considered, appropriate and measurable. By organising and implementing innovative key performance indicators (KPIs) for your department, in-house counsel can show their value and demonstrate why their legal spend is important.

Matrix describing fee structures, providing examples of each, and explaining when the structure is ideal.

This article explores the complex nature of the Brexit withdrawal process and the importance for all intellectual property (IP) owners to monitor any and all updates and to take immediate action to ensure the protection of their IP rights.

This is an outline of the session Who's the Regulator in the Room?

This is a sample security services agreement where Company 1 will furnish properly-equipped uniformed guards with ID badge to perform corporate security services for Company 2. The sample includes a clause selecting the laws of the State of California.

What legislation is applicable to insolvencies and reorganisations? What criteria are applied in your country to determine if a debtor is insolvent?