The Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) is the world's largest organization serving the professional and business interests of attorneys who practice in the legal departments of corporations, associations, nonprofits and other private-sector organizations around the globe.
A multitude of issues can arise during the term of a real estate lease and/or at the expiration of a lease term that require in-house counsel to get involved. Many of these issues can be more complex than one would imagine, can cost your company unnecessary money and are often not fully addressed in the lease agreement.
In recent years, many leading companies have learned the hard way about being the victim of a breach of data privacy — even though they complied with regulations and standards. In this program, you will learn from their painful experiences how to use the tools and techniques of corporate compliance to be prepared when your company gets hit — and maybe, how to postpone that pain.
Litigation in a foreign jurisdiction presents in-house counsel with unique challenges. Differences in procedure, remedies and costs make decision-making difficult and cost control problematic. How are those difficulties best addressed? This panel of experienced in-house counsel and foreign counsel will speak to specific techniques of managing commercial and IP litigation in foreign jurisdictions.
On July 1, 2010, Ontario’s Retail Sales Tax (“RST”) will be replaced by a single, value-added sales tax and combined with the federal Goods and Services Tax (“GST”), resulting in the Harmonized Sales Tax (“HST”). The HST will be applied at a combined tax rate of 13 percent, made up of an 8 percent “provincial component” and a 5 percent “federal component.” This article discusses these points in detail.
This document discusses how a company can be prepared to conduct a comprehensive, objective, and professional investigation. The points discussed will minimize the risk that an employee will be disciplined or terminated for something he or she did not do, as well as teach the investigator how to make a credible determination as to what happened in a given situation.