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Contract establishing a long-term, joint development of products between two companies. Agreement provides for definitions, scope agreement, R&D Committee, joint projects, engineering support, cost sharing, rights to developed technology, confidential information, and other standard provisions.

A brief dealing with whether Alabama would honor the attorney client privilege for a lawyer giving advice as in-house counsel.

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

ACC Amicus - In Re Alcon

This is a sample anti-corruption, bribery and compliance policy statement.

A lack of understanding about your company's data management system can land you in hot water. There are ways to improve communication between in-house lawyers and the information technology group before and after receipt of document requests. Prepare your organization so when you respond to an electronic data request, you can avoid potential pitfalls.

This is a sample exclusive international sales representative agreement between a manufacturing company and a sales representative, for the solicitation of orders for the manufacturer's products from customers located within a territory.

This is a sample physician employment agreement.

This article addresses how a General Counsel should evaluate which performance standards or metrics will help communicate the company's value.

This article covers information regarding a regulatory change in food safety in China.

This is a sample hotel group sales agreement addendum.

This session offers strategies to best obtain value and profitability in your negotiations, identify and neutralize difficult negotiators and their tactics, tailor your negotiation style to suit different settings, examine practical ethical issues lawyers face in negotiation, and recognize and address common pitfalls and problems typically encountered in negotiations.

For most corporations, the role of general counsel has expanded far beyond the traditional chief legal officer role. It is an increasingly important and demanding role, not suited for the timid or meek.

This author tackles the question: Are corporations taking on excessive enterprise risks by failing to make prudent investments in their compliance and ethics functions?

James Nortz provides three strategies to help promote ethical conduct within the corporate environment.

The author posits that temperance in a business environment is not a natural state. Most people tend to cut corners or break the law when they suspect no one is looking. This article offers several strategies for in-house counsel seeking to encourage self-restraint in the running of an ethical business.

Valorem's customized alternative fee arrangements, and its firm structure and practices are designed to consistently deliver value to clients. Patrick Lamb discusses key elements to their approach.

This table presumes that employees are covered by the relevant labor law, however in many jurisdictions administrative and managerial and professional employees are not covered and severance (while customary) may not be required. Also, where it may be hard to meet the statutory requirements the default is usually to proceed by mutual agreement. In most locations may not terminate employees on occupational illness leave.

A consultant agreement that includes provisions regarding the expected services, term, reimbursements, independent contractor status, confidentiality, advertising, confidentiality, intellectual property rights, indemnity, and other considerations.

This article discusses the Cayman Islands' own unique form of non-charitable purpose trust legislation, the Special Trusts (Alternative Regime) Law of 1997 (or STAR Law).

The results achieved by the in-house legal department cannot be considered optimized unless they are well communicated and accompanied by a structured procedure to measure such results. The material from this round table session should allow for discussion on the methods available and the practical experience of the attendees in this domain.

Comment Letter California Rules of Professional Conduct

This sample provides practice points and a checklist of what constitutes taking “reasonable steps” to help avoid sanctions under the newly amended FRCP 37(e).

This is a sample equipment lease agreement.

This is a sample lease agreement involving a pension plan.

Material Adverse Change clauses are common in credit agreements, but are rarely interpreted by the courts. This article reviews cases when a lender’s knowledge of pre-existing financial circumstances at the time of granting credit is considered when assessing whether a material change has occurred.

This presentation discusses growth in connected devices, importance of standards, guidelines, changes in patent licensing.

While many organizations have an Incident Response (IR) Plan, they are often left on a (digital) shelf to collect dust instead of being used as a roadmap when an intrusion occurs. These are five common pitfalls that come up with IR Plans, which your organization can avoid.

Ten years ago, separation of business and personal data was much easier, but the rise of handheld computers and Internet devices has forced companies to ease their restrictions on data flow. However, risks and problems still remain, and each business needs to sensibly design a Bring-Your-Own-Device-To-Work plan that reduces risk while meeting the needs of the company and its workers. Here are the top ten considerations when creating such a plan.

This is a chart showing the comparison of provincial health information protection legislation in Canada.