This six-part series will highlight 7-Eleven's design and launch of a program designed to optimize the number of its outside counsel firms. This series will offer an unprecedented step-by-step look into how one legal department's disciplined convergence process unfolds.
Prioritize your organization's compliance needs so that you can better understand the likelihood and magnitude of potential issues with these easy-to-follow steps.
Building a robust IP program requires successful engagement and working relationships with inventors and research organizations. Panelists will offer strategies and practices to engage and incentivize inventors to increase patent filings and protect intellectual property. They will share tips for working within R&D culture to define innovation, identify and document patentable inventions and enlist inventor support and collaboration in protecting the company in the context of third-party engagements. Materials will include sample presentations and training materials for educating research organizations.
Employees' use of cell phone while driving is a potential source of liability for the employer. In this short article, learn tips to train the business on banning the use of cell phones while driving.
An overview of the benefits that analytics can bring to a company's legal department.
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ACC Docket talks Hollywood and sports with Danielle Van Lier, senior counsel, intellectual property and contracts of SAG-AFTRA.
Frank Fletcher discusses how understanding the underlying technology of your business can help make you a better service provider.
James Wong discusses the importance of humor when building business relationships, and the differences between Chinese and Americans when it comes to cracking jokes.
This article discusses what records need to be retained and what records you can toss out as in-house counsel.
This article offers insight into how a lawyer of a small law department can add value to their job by streamlining processes like sales contract evaluations.
The author discusses how best to go about developing effective relationships with business partners, especially those abroad.
In her Jan/Feb article, Lead the Way columnist Whitnie Wiley pens a letter to her bully of a boss who has changed their ways.
Oral testimony By Thomas J. Donohue, President & CEO, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary Regarding The Thompson Memorandum's Effect on the Right to Counsel in Corporate Investigations Tuesday, September 12, 2006
On July 1, 2022, Florida's “Stop the Wrongs to Our Kids and Employees,” or Stop WOKE Act, went into effect and amends Florida’s employment discrimination laws statewide to bar employers from requiring diversity, equity, and inclusion (“DEI”) training in the workplace for certain size companies. Several states are considering following Florida's lead. This resource provides guidance to employers in Florida on the employment law issues.
This resource was originally published on June 30, 2022.
If you’re ready to move to value-based fee structures, you know that you need to collaborate with your outside counsel to drive efficiency. This session will focus on process management – specifically disaggregating processes to determine which pieces can be improved, making sure that legal knowledge is being leveraged (not re-invented), and making better decisions about who should be doing which piece of the work. We’ll examine internal and external staffing options, include out-sourcing and off-shoring, and connect the options to value-based fee structures that you may be considering.
This is a confidentiality agreement between a company and its employee.
This article highlights the importance of protecting one’s FinTech products and innovations. One means of protecting FinTech innovations is through Intellectual Property (IP) laws. In particular, the IP laws of Hong Kong provide a variety of mechanisms to ensure the protection of FinTech products.
Investors and the wider public are increasingly gravitating towards businesses that prioritize ESG credentials. This article is about the importance of data protection in this context and why it should not be overlooked.
GE Canada implemented a process to select strategic partner firms to provide services with added value. This Value Practice lists the key steps GE Canada took and end results.
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