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Learn about key climate change challenges, strategies, and regulatory developments in the media sector in the United Kingdom and the European Union.

During a crisis like the Covid-19 pandemic, the principles of good communication remain the same: values matter and communicate with your stakeholders.

User-generated content and influencer marketing allow organisations to engage more closely with consumers. However, both carry legal and reputational risk. In-house legal teams are uniquely placed to add value to their organisations by recognising and responding to these risks.

What can in-house counsel do to help mitigate liability in the wake of a crisis and to help maintain the company's public reputation? James Nortz addresses this question in this must-read article.

Read this article discussing the importance of staff retention and in-house lawyers.

This material focuses on how to speak to and with your business partner- the corporate client. Read more scenarios and answers to questions that arise in your corporate counsel role.

Bruce Kuhlik, executive vice president and general counsel of Merck, explains what it takes to get a corporate pro bono program off the ground and to maintain people's commitment to it.

Check out this 2014 Apex, Excel and Communicator Award-winning article! The standard “no comment” response to a media frenzy surrounding pending litigation is an approach that some legal counsel have opted out of in favor of more detailed disclosure. Such an approach addresses not
only the media, but also other company constituencies who are impacted by the negative attention. This article details how to create a platform for proactive responses.

Ever heard of Facebook? Chances are some of your employees have, and they may even mention your company name in their profiles. Yes, in-house counsel should be aware of social networking sites, but maybe not in order to police them-but to join them. Find out about this type of online social networking, and explore some of its potential benefits, as well as some of the issues you need to know.

Sometimes the best career advice can come from an overlooked source. This feature article points out how in-house counsel can use musicians as models for improving their careers and subsequently their companies.