Procurement of green energy and associated certificates is at the top of the agenda for many industrials, who are particularly impacted by soaring energy costs and required to meet ambitious ESG and decarbonization goals. As a result, industrial organizations are seeking to obtain all or most of their power from renewable sources.
This is a sample professional consulting services agreement.
Learn about challenges to E-commerce in the United States.
As global economies recover from the credit crisis, lack of available funding is crippling major infrastructure initiatives, and financial advisors are searching for new sources of credit to get their projects off the ground. The Province of Ontario, however, may have found a solution to the problem: a pooled financing vehicle. This article demonstrates the success of local governments using such a model to fund new infrastructure development.
The rise of technological innovation brings a surge of patents - and worse - patent trolls.
At ACC’s 2011 Annual Meeting, several in-house counsel joined together to discuss the results of the 2011 CLO Survey. Topics ranged from job satisfaction to the costs of outside counsel, and forging innovative relationships to managing internal spending. Read this article to hear what leading counsel have to say about these hot-button issues.
50/50 raffles conducted at sporting events are an easy way for organizations to raise funds for charity. Participants purchase tickets at a low, predetermined amount and the holder of the winning ticket is awarded half of the proceeds from ticket sales. The other half of the pot is awarded to a charitable organization.
Learn about the Gender Pay Gap Information Act 2021 in Ireland.
This issue covers corporate subsidiary governance, litigation privilege, and partial pension wind-ups.
General counsel are expected to not only be lawyers but also leaders of a team. Legal acumen is honed through years of law firm and in-house practice, but a high-profile leadership position demands additional skills. From setting the strategic vision to building relationships and developing talent, learn what it takes to lead a law department.
Open source software is being incorporated into commercial software products at increasing rates. Despite the association of open source software with a sense of public-domain freedom, open source software is in fact licensed with a variety of restrictions. Although open source software also carries risks of patent liability, this article focuses on the unique interplay between open source software and copyright law, and suggests best practices to limit your company’s potential copyright liability.
The ACC Docket interviews James Williams about his work at the Liquidity Services and risk management.
A Checklist of best practices for public companies and their counsel to consider when the company and its employees are active in social media. This Checklist offers suggestions in dealing with the limitations and challenges that federal securities laws place on the use of social media and avoiding violations of the securities laws. This Checklist also covers social media use during sensitive disclosure periods, such as during securities offerings and proxy solicitations.
Learn about China's amended provisions on Foreign-invested Telecom Enterprises (FITE), effective May 2022, and resulting new opportunities.
This cross-border checklist highlights distinctive legal, business and regulatory issues when doing a deal in Canada.
In recessionary times, managers are highly motivated to find creative ways to save money. Managers may consider increasing their reliance on independent contractors, to maximize the flexibility to control labor costs on minimal notice and with less disruption to employees. However, retaining independent contractors or reclassifying existing employees as such without a proper legal basis poses significant risks for the company should the workers' status as independent contractors later be challenged. This article discusses ten practical tips for employers and their in-house counsel to minimize the risks associated with the use of independent contractors, particularly in recessionary times.
General counsel who preside over a significant legal budget are failing to do their job if they do not involve procurement experts in their purchasing decisions. Here's what the legal department should keep in mind.
Telecommunications services—those things that connect your corporate offices, data centers, e-commerce sites, call centers, and cell phones—are vital to most companies, and with multiyear, multimillion-dollar contracts at stake, in-house counsel can help save company money through informed negotiations with potential providers. Learn the pricing and cost strategies, standard agreement pitfalls, and remedies to insist on (or avoid) in negotiating your next telecom services agreement.
Learn about changes to Iowa privacy law, effective January 1, 2025, to protect consumer data.
This guide covers common issues in lending and secured finance laws and regulations – including guarantees, collateral security, financial assistance, syndicated lending and LIBOR replacement – in 35 jurisdictions.
If your company sells anything, it's going to be marketed. Don't land in the soup - read our experts' guide to marketing law basics.
This article describes the problems that the European Commission's approach to the attorney-client privilege creates and what counsel should do to ameliorate those problems.
Top Ten tips for developing a structured approach in order to maximize your transition time.
This article explores the takeaways from a UK case, which highlights the risks of bidding on a competitor’s trade name(s) (and/or variants thereof) that is/are confusingly similar to the bidder’s own trade name(s) as Internet search keywords.
The antitrust landscape has changed with the advent of the Biden administration. Companies should have a compliance program in place to keep the government at bay.
Learn about key EU and national public procurement regulations, in this multi-jurisdictional guide.
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