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Financial Decision-making for In-house Counsel

By Michael Smith

Examine the external and internal factors that affect the longer-term profitability of the organization; Understand the balance sheet, income statement and statement of cash flow; and Discuss how to identify red flags that signal financial difficulties or accounting problems.

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Limitation-of-Liability Clauses in Commercial Contracting: Ironclad or Leaky Sieve

By Robert M. Lindquist and Daniel I. Prywes

The majority of in-house counsel’s time and attention spent on contracts is often focused on the wording of the limitation-of-liability (LoL) clause. In the brave new world of big data, the significance of the LoL clause cannot be overstated. Although they cannot secure protection from all risks, they need not be leaky sieves.

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California's Proposition 65: The Target is Moving — Will it Land on You?

By Bernadette Chala, Peter W. McGraw and Elizabeth V. McNulty

California’s unique “toxic warning” law, Proposition 65, has been on<br />the books in the United States for 30 years, yet it continues to trap the unwary manufacturer and retailer and funnel millions of dollars to a cottage industry that seemingly exists for just one purpose: lining their pockets with your company’s hard-earned profits.

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Personalized Medicine: A New Paradigm (United States)

By Nathan Beaver, Gary Koch, Antoinette Konski, and Judy Waltz

This Quick Overview addresses how the Precision Medicine Initiative (the "PMI") allows targeted therapies to be deployed that are more likely to be efficacious, less likely to lead to adverse side effects, and, in many circumstances, more cost-effective for both the patient and society at large than current approaches to many different illnesses.

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How to Use Risk Assessments to Shift Culture

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Whether you have been in the compliance field for decades or you are brand new to the corporate world, there is no debating the critical nature of assessing your company’s compliance risks. These assessments are, in fact, opportunities. With the right approach, they can go beyond simply protecting your organization and ultimately contribute to the culture you are trying to create.
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Obtaining Buy-in from Middle Managers and Employees

By Stephen Epstein, John Sardar

Learn about cutting-edge developments in compliance training (apps, multimedia, etc.) that can elevate your compliance program to the next level. Discover how your organization can leverage social media to bolster its compliance program. Squarely address “tone at the middle” and learn best practices for ensuring that middle managers – your first line of defense – are especially prepared to serve as good compliance stewards. Worried about whistleblowers? Examine techniques that foster communications within your organization, to help ensure that employee concerns are raised internally.

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