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Sample Letter for responding to annual auditors

This sample outlines strategies to take should you have an active shooter in the workplace.

This is a confidentiality agreement between two companies.

This article explores the applicable rules and case law in Spain regarding the liability of a company administrator (individual or Board of Directors).

This is a sample letter of intent between a buyer and company.

A trade secret’s existence and value are challenged by increased outsourcing, subcontracting, and employee mobility. This panel will discuss tips and tactics for establishing and protecting trade secrets in the context of a remote and mobile workforce, including hiring and firing concerns and risks and strategies associated with telecommuters, bring-your-own-device policies, and secure data access and management.

This is a sample consulting agreement between a consultant and a Limited Liability Company.

Discuss how to approach contract negotiation and drafting across jurisdictions and legal systems. Gain insight into techniques and tools to monitor and manage the risks involved with having contracts across several jurisdictions. Identify resources that in-house counsel of international businesses implement to manage such risks, such as country managers, outsourcing, risk guidelines, documented authority delegation and reporting. Discuss challenges and best practices in enforcing contracts across jurisdictions.

These guidelines for Web Participation build upon longstanding policies regarding associates' personal conduct and upon the sound judgment that we expect our associates to use in their professional interactions.

Discuss the various roles in-house counsel tend to play, and how they are affected by attorney-client privilege rules; Discuss challenges that can arise when in-house counsel and their clients work in different countries that have diverging views of attorney-client privilege; Discuss in depth the Professional Conduct Model Rules 1.6, 1.13, and others as appropriate; Walk away with practical guidance on how to handle common privilege challenges; and Discuss the potential challenge of making sure in-house counsel have authorization to practice in all of the countries where they need to advise clients.

How do you keep track of intellectual property (IP) assets, decide what to educate staff on IP matters regarding infringement, and choose when to seek protections regarding copyright, trademark or patent protection? What can the non-specialist do in-house, and when do you need to go to outside counsel? How do you budget for IP matters? This program will focus on the operational IP legal function — not on the basics of what is a copyright or trademark. Attend this panel to discuss different models of IP management for small law departments and nonprofits, including managing international IP and enforcement of IP against members and volunteers.

In this document, My Company, Inc. (MYCO) explains the importance of effective records management including meeting legal standards for record retention and protection of confidentiality, optimizing the use of space, minimizing the cost of record retention, and properly destroying outdated records.

Published by the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC), a legal association connecting more than 40,000 in-house lawyers employed by more than 10,000 organizations across 85 countries, the ACC Law Department Management Report is a global study of corporate law departments and their operations. In an effort to re-connect the cost and value of legal services, ACC surveyed nearly 300 chief legal officers (CLOs), general counsel (GC), and legal operations professionals on specific aspects of law department budget, spend, and management practices. The report also includes insight from interviews with GC and CLOs of Global 1000 and Fortune 500 law departments.

Amicus Brief - FTC v. Boehringer

Jack Richardson Oration. Speech delivered by Fiona McLeod SC, President, Law Council of Australia at the High Court of Australia, Canberra.

It's a thorny set of questions that, in an era of hyper-scrutiny on SEC filings, carry more weight than ever: How do you decide when a litigation matter must be disclosed on financial statements and to shareholders? And for how much?

Because records may sometimes relate to threatened or contemplated litigation or government investigations, audits, or inquiries, this Policy also provides a mechanism for immediately stopping any scheduled discarding of all such records.

A discussion of Dubai's special judicial committee designed to address "the liquidation of cancelled real estate projects in Dubai and the settlement of relevant rights." Includes a review of the Committee's powers and practical application.

The brief article explores how Kilby v CVS Pharmacy clarifies the California Industrial Welfare Commission's industry standard for suitable seating provided in the workplace.

We are often asked questions about whether certain steps are necessary for procedural fairness. For example, do we need to put written allegations to a respondent? What if someone attends an interview with a lawyer? How long should we give an employee before asking for a response to allegations? There is often no simple answer. A number of factors are relevant in determining whether there has been procedural fairness.

This guidance update highlights the importance of the issue and discusses a number of measures that funds and advisers may wish to consider when addressing cybersecurity risks. Because of the rapidly changing nature of cyber threats, the Division will continue to focus on cybersecurity and monitor events in this area.

Participants will go through a post-merger integration exercise and will have to provide inputs/responses for the Board. Naming and branding issues, earn-outs, subsidiaries management, employee relations, accounting and financial reporting…keep that due diligence report handy!

This presentation discusses steps to take when preparing for a facility emergency.

Trade secrets, customer data, financial records and other confidential information increasingly is under attack. But while most companies focus their security efforts on external threats (i.e. hackers), their greatest security risks may lie within their own company. Employees have access to confidential information, and may understand how to avoid internal security measures. This session will reveal the best practices to protect your company from internal thieves.

Conflict, which is a positive by-product of diversity, must be expected and welcomed in today’s innovative, diverse workplace. Diversity of thought is increased in the more diverse workplace, and while most Australian companies look for ways to increase diversity, they may struggle if the inherent conflicts get out of hand.

This article appears in the Australian Corporate Lawyer, Volume 30, Issue 1 - Autumn 2020

Review the post-selection processes key to integration, from installation to implementation, including available outside resources and more. Discover how to get IT and capital investment, how to make use of what you already have, e.g. Sharepoint and how to ensure successful
change management.

This panel will focus on how judges and in-house counsel can work together to drive efficiency in our sometimes-byzantine litigation system, while retaining our profession's high ethical standards. From basic case management to better use of technology, courts have the same interests as in-house counsel, namely to drive better legal outcomes more efficiently. However, judges usually only hear from the outside bar, rather than corporate counsel who share their interest in timely, ethical and efficient resolution of legal matters. Join this panel of business court judges from around the United States to exchange thoughts about how the US litigation system can improve and how you can supervise litigation more effectively, while ensuring that you comply with relevant ethics rules, such as ABA Model Rules 1.1, and 3.2, among many others.

This is a sample hotel group sales agreement where the the "Decision Date" is the final date on which the Hotel must receive a signed copy of the Agreement. After that date, the Group Block is no longer valid at the negotiated rate outlined.