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Practical Considerations for Media Liability Insurance

By Fiona A. Chaney, Shaun H. Crosner, Aimee Ghosh of Dickstein Shapiro

In this Quick Overview, in-house counsel will learn about the types of claims that may be covered under media liability insurance policies, plus some tips and precautions to help insureds maximize the value of their coverage in the United States.

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Telecommuting as a Disability Accommodation (United States)

By Stephanie M. Cerasano and Joseph J. Lynett, Jackson Lewis P.C.

This QuickCounsel suggests strategies for evaluating employee requests to telecommute as an accommodation, as well as factors to consider when allowing employees to work from home in the United States.

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Overview of Canadian Anti-Spam Legislation

By Tricia Kuhl (Partner), Kaitlin Macdonald (Associate), Wendy Mee (Associate) and Alice Tseng (Partner), Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP (Blakes)

This short article (QuickCounsel) provides an overview of Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL) that came into effect on July 1st, 2014.

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Premises Liability

This Wisdom of the Crowd addresses issues involving premises liability regarding third-party workers, contractors, and geocachers.

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Organizational Effectiveness: The New Imperative for Developing a World-Class Legal Department

By Huron Legal

This InfoPAK examines the concept of organizational effectiveness and how corporate counsel can use its principles to effectively develop an international, “world-class” legal department. The InfoPAK focuses primarily on “soft” organizational development issues, including those relating to development of a shared vision and organizational culture for the legal department, and development of the people who make up the department. The InfoPAK begins with a discussion of the important foundational step of aligning the legal department’s priorities with the organization’s business strategy and developing a corresponding shared vision for the department. Discussions of successful management of client relationships and internal departmental issues including leadership issues and team management follow. Because change is the one constant in today’s legal department, the InfoPAK also discusses change management and creating a “one team” culture. Finally, it discusses metrics and measurement tools for managing organizational development.

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Guide to Doing Business in Idaho, USA

By Hawley Troxell, a Lex Mundi Member

This Guide provides an overview of law important to companies doing business in Idaho, USA, including law related to corporate organization, taxation, investment, labor and employment, dispute resolution, etc.

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How You Can Improve Legal Performance: Legal Process Outsourcing

By Juan Pablo Guzman <br />Latin America General Counsel <br />Nokia Simmens <br />Juan Luna <br />Latin American Legal Counsel <br />Hewlett-Packard Company <br />Suchitra Narayen <br />Associate General Counsel <br />Oracle Corporation <br />Laila Pfau <br />Legal Counsel <br />Hewlett-Packard Company<br />

It is important that legal team resources be focused on strategic and revenue generating opportunities. How can the legal department align their resources to risk and growth? If these resources are viewed in terms of a pyramid, a number of options are presented for servicing clients. We will explore considerations to outsourcing higher volume, lower- risk work to free up resources.

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