Your company has one opportunity to make a good, or at least a competent, first impression to promptly defuse a situation. You can use the media effectively to present balanced facts to the public following a crisis, to neutralize biased or inaccurate reporting, and to improve your reputation. As in-house counsel, you should be involved on the front line from the beginning. This article shows you how to develop an effective media relations plan, not only to minimize the negatives, but also to accentuate the positives.
This article discusses the increase in the use of put and call options in M&A transactions, as a mechanism to address challenges to valuation.
About 85 percent of all corporate espionage incidents involve current or past employees. Use this article to implement strategies protecting trade secrets.
This guide provides an overview of key legal issues, rules and developments regarding vertical agreements and dominant firms across a range of jurisdictions.
A study of the state of maturity among in-house legal departments across 15 legal operations functions.
When it comes to mediation, no one is asking you to be friends with opposing counsel. Instead, approach it with a sense of civility and look at the case as objectively as possible. Even if you’re not interested in a settlement, the tips presented in this article will allow you to move past litigation and focus on more productive business.
607 - Best Practices in Tracking Environmental Law Worldwide
This ACC guide provides a Q&A that gives a high level overview of board composition, the comply or explain approach, management rules and authority, directors' duties and liabilities, transactions with directors and conflicts, company meetings, internal controls, accounts and audit, institutional investors and reform proposals in Germany.
When selling finished products in the European Union, you are likely to encounter environmental product stewardship laws. These new regulations place an increasing liability on businesses to understand various EU standards that directly influence the supply chain. With an understanding of the practical ways in which this legislation operates, in-house counsel can better adapt to the future of product distribution under looming EU environmental regulations.
This article discusses California's new compliance regime for entities that qualify as "charitable fundraising platforms."
It offers a high-level overview of who qualifies as a charitable fundraising platform, what obligations platforms must meet, and when various compliance obligations take effect.
Answers to these FAQs have been prepared by the Data Protection Unit of the Directorate-General for Justice, Freedom and Security with a view to assisting EU/EEA entities, and more particularly SMEs, in understanding the EU legal framework applicable to transfers of personal data processed in the EU (and the EEA) to “third countries” (i.e. countries that are not members of the EU or the EEA).
Learn about loan fee fraud and how consumers can check for it in the United Kingdom.
Whether you believe that the legal profession has changed little or drastically, one thing that has evolved over the years is the role of general counsel. The GC role that once consisted of oversight and management of the legal function now involves everything from advising on issues of globalization to risk management. GCs and their legal departments therefore must be armed with the necessary resources to insure their organizations’ success.
A guide to help FPIs and their investment bankers understand the regulatory regime applicable to capital-raising activities in the United States.
You are deputy general counsel of a Fortune 500 children’s entertainment conglomerate. One day, the vice president of marketing comes into your office and says, “We need to form a tight bond with the Fish Are Friends, Not Food Foundation. They are doing amazing work and getting great press for it. We need their brand to promote our new character, ‘Smiley the Shark.’” If you’re unsure of what steps to take to get the deal done, read this article.
This ACC guide provides a Q&A that gives a high level overview of board composition, the comply or explain approach, management rules and authority, directors' duties and liabilities, transactions with directors and conflicts, company meetings, internal controls, accounts and audit, institutional investors and reform proposals in Hong Kong.
This ACC guide provides a Q&A that gives a high level overview of board composition, the comply or explain approach, management rules and authority, directors' duties and liabilities, transactions with directors and conflicts, company meetings, internal controls, accounts and audit, institutional investors and reform proposals in the United Arab Emirates.
This course explains how to determine whether the Conflict Minerals Rule applies to a company's products and outlines the steps that the company must take to comply if the Rule applies. (Licensed for use in classroom settings only and not for distribution in any form.)
If your company is plagued by document review troubles, early data assessment (EDA) might be the key. EDA technologies can prove invaluable when gathering and organizing data; assessing the merits and value of a case; and conducting internal audits and investigations. To learn more about the types, benefits and strategies of EDA, read this article.
If you're a bank and considering implementing a new Customer Identification Program or an organization looking to shore-up your current vendor due diligence process, remember to keep these ten things in mind.
This is a sample information technology policy.
Learn tips on selecting, evaluating, comparing and retaining the outside counsel that best suit the organizational needs of your company.
What is the small law department’s role when a natural or man-made disaster impacts your operations or those of a key business partner? What if the company doesn’t have a plan in place and you have to provide immediate advice? Emerge from this session better equipped to respond<br />when disaster strikes, with the rudiments of a plan in mind and with the desire to fully develop that plan while things are calm!
This ACC guide provides a Q&A that gives a high level overview of board composition, the comply or explain approach, management rules and authority, directors' duties and liabilities, transactions with directors and conflicts, company meetings, internal controls, accounts and audit, institutional investors and reform proposals in Canada.
This publication provides corporate counsel and international practitioners with comprehensive jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction guidance to laws and regulations relating to digital businesses around the world.
This QuickCounsel will cover who will be included in the Order's definition of "critical infrastructure" from the private sector, what specific standards will be adopted to enhance cybersecurity, and what incentives will be created to encourage private sector adoption of the selected standards.
A well-crafted, company-facilitated secondary offering of private company shares (a private secondary offering) enables pre-IPO companies to satisfy the liquidity needs of early investors and employees without becoming exposed to the burdens and risks associated with going public.
This InfoPAK (now known as ACC Guides) provides a high-level overview on private acquisitions law and practice in the United Kingdom.
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