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As social media has taken an increasingly central role in building brands and promoting businesses, in-house counsel need to keep related legal issues top-of-mind. In this Top Ten, learn how to navigate the non-stop world of social media marketing.

This ACC Docket article provides in-house counsel with an overview of the procurement process at larger companies, specific clauses in vendor agreements that are important to review before entering into a contract with a vendor, and a guide to procuring clean energy for your company.

With seemingly never-ending shifts in global politics and economies, everyone is looking to in-house counsel for guidance. Follow this roadmap to guide your organizations through uncertainty.

This Fraud Awareness and Detection training course will help you recognize situations that raise issues of fraud and to help you deal with them appropriately and effectively. (Licensed for use in classroom settings only and not for distribution in any form.)

Discuses several measure that you can take to protect your company and minimize the risk when a customer's or supplier's financial situation worsens and includes sample forms.

Technology procurement has many pitfalls. These tips from a technology acquisition expert will help make your large technology procurement project a success.

Learn practical ways to use your mobile technology (tablets/smart phones/etc.) in your daily practice; Explore the challenges and limitations you may face including ethical, data security, and privacy issues;Receive "top picks" for legal apps for corporate counsel.

In this multi-jurisdictional guide, explore key issues in tax formats regarding the types of taxes imposed, allowed deductions, tax rates and withholdings, residency rules, tax compliance and tax treaties across a range of jurisdictions.

Alternative litigation finance (“ALF”) refers to the funding of litigation activities by entities other than the parties themselves, their counsel, or other entities with a preexisting contractual relationship with one of the parties, such as an indemnitor or a liability insurer.

Learn about the importance of appropriate IP due diligence in transactions decision-making and risk-taking.

In this article, learn the more material changes brought about by the GDPR (those likely to have a bigger impact), comments on the likely impact of the proposal on businesses, and suggests action points that businesses can begin to address in the lead-up to the measure coming into force.

Timothy Phillips, senior counsel at the American Cancer Society, discusses a variety of tax issues facing charities and nonprofits.

This resource introduces and provides access to a virtual library of the most common usages of trade or other business practices in France, courtesy of the Centre du Droit de l'Entreprise at the University of Montpellier School of Law.

On June 7, 2022, US Senators Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) introduced a bipartisan bill to regulate the cryptocurrency/digital assets market. While the Lummis-Gillibrand Bill will no doubt undergo substantial amendments before - and if - it becomes law, its bipartisan provenance points to likely directions for U.S. crypto/digital assets law and regulation. This article explains why some of the Lummis-Gillibrand provisions are revolutionary.

Blockchain has become an international phenomenon, supplying digital passports for each transaction in the complex global chain. The applicable legislative and regulatory landscape is evolving. Here's how in-house counsel can stay updated.

For many companies, the potential of big data is clouded by uncertainty as to how programs should be designed and maintained to avoid legal and regulatory risk. This is especially true because the concept of what constitutes consumer harm – in the field of privacy generally but especially with regard to big data analytics – is rapidly evolving. This InfoPAK provides an overview of legal and regulatory considerations businesses should contemplate when developing programs that rely on big data coupled with tools that help apply those legal and regulatory considerations to real world situations.

2023 is shaping up to be a landmark year for data privacy, as comprehensive consumer privacy laws take effect in four states and a fifth state expands its already robust privacy compliance requirements. Womble Bond Dickinson assembled a panel of privacy, technology and data security attorneys to discuss these upcoming changes and the regulatory compliance steps companies need to take. This article is taken from that conversation. 

As clients seek more cost-effective legal services, innovative law firms have begun to transform their service delivery models and new providers have appeared, enabling a transformation in which law firms realign their business models with clients' interests. Is this the end of in-house lawyers?

This article provides a discussion of the principal US Securities Act of 1933 sections, rules and regulations that may be used for registration-exempt offers and sales of securities for the purpose of raising capital and their respective requirements, advantages and disadvantages. Following the discussion, are “Deal Points” on important considerations in the exempt-from-registration offering process and what at all costs not to do.

Examines the guidance issued by the Office of Labor Management Standards and discusses the best practices for addressing LM-10 reporting obligations.

In this article, in-house counsel speak about their experiences during the current crisis, and many lay out a range of useful steps they can take if they are currently looking for work or anticipating that they may soon need to be looking for new opportunities.

About 85 percent of all corporate espionage incidents involve current or past employees. Use this article to implement strategies protecting trade secrets.

In this multi-jurisdictional guide, explore an overview of key legal issues, rules and developments regarding franchise across a range of jurisdictions.