Nonprofit organizations continue to grow in number; in doing so, they have attracted scrutiny and are no longer able to "relax" when it comes to corporate governance. This article distills those governance practices that are most applicable and easily adapted by nonprofits, and provides examples of relevant governance documents that can be adapted to any nonprofit with minimum effort.
All organizations, nonprofit or for-profit, need to be clear about what they stand for. And this is where intellectual property law plays a key role.
A new column for ACC Docket, Outsource Resource, covers and discusses the challenges in-house counsel face with limited budget and staff.
A letter arguing that imposing an additional permissive exclusion penalty on "responsible corporate officers" would undermine that the primary goal of the laws governing heavily regulated industries, which should be to encourage and incentivize the best behavior possible from senior management by lining up their interests with the interests of public protection.
Receiving a letter from the US government stating that a qui tam action has been filed against your company can be a nightmare for the in-house attorney ordered to stay quiet about the case. With shareholder litigation on the rise, companies subject to the False Claims Acts need to consider all options. In-house counsel need to prepare themselves for a tug of war between the laws, penalties that exist for violating a seal, and those that require the disclosure of information to publicly traded companies.
In-house counsel have amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure to contend with, and the high costs of complying with them tend to come from the legal department's pocketbook. Learn about how to recover from the cost of ediscovery.
Read Part Two of Ron Pol's column on customer service- his ten points on dealing with poor customer service.
A Service Level Management Agreement between two corporations that are under common control, which relates to one entity's provision (for example: human relations, accounting, marketing, business development or similar services) in on an arms-length basis to the "sibling corporation".
Law firm respond to suggestions of poor customer service differently. This article describes one hypothetical possibility.
Outlines examples of the tolerated practices that invite the kind of self-dealing and corrupt practices by corporate directors and officers and provides corporate governance practices that will maximize the risk of costly and crippling corporate scandals.