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Contracts are important in Australia, so expect to have to sign some form of written document before you may consider the parties committed to perform any substantive obligation or expenditure.

When we think through the steps and identify potential obstacles, we begin to feel more secure with our decision to push forward.

This column is not about compliance, or at least not “Capital-C” compliance; it is about compliance generally, corner-cutting lawyers and inscrutable IT departments. It’s also about workplace rules and constraints, imposed in the belief that they’ll facilitate the attainment of generally agreed-upon good things, and why they often fall short.

If we are really interested in building and sustaining strong ethical cultures, how can we completely ignore questions relating to the basic ethical obligation our companies have to pay a fair wage?

Cold fusion is a fascinating story, like other examples of bad science, because they are so rare. We should be so lucky to have such rare mistakes in our own professional lives.

This article looks at five trends emerging from the “big data” industry.

Your organization’s legal and compliance function has a central role in data breach response, handling substantive legal repercussions of the breach and also ensuring coordination of the overall response.

Companies across the world outsource a significant amount of business to India, which includes a sizeable amount of personal data. The concerns such companies face are that they have a duty to shield their customers from the possibility that employees of foreign-service providers may misuse their personal data.

This article explains which sections of Title II will and will not apply to broadband Internet access services.

Inside Voice is a new column featuring articles authored by the leaders of ACC's legal services. Here, they reveal insight on the pressing trends affecting in-house legal practice and corporate legal departments across the globe.