In today's complex business landscape, collaboration between in-house legal departments and external counsel is crucial. Law firms are an extension of a legal team and provide substantive expertise unavailable on the team and support on high-volume, high-risk matters requiring additional expertise. Read this article for key strategies that can help corporate in-house legal departments develop robust partnerships with their external counsel.
This article provide relevant information and practice tips to in-house counsel about President Biden's October 2023 executive order on artificial intelligence.
This guide covers common issues in franchise laws and regulations across 20 jurisdictions, including competition law, real estate, and protecting the brand and other intellectual property.
This guide covers numerous issues relating to regulation of digital assets across 33 jurisdictions, including government attitude & definition; sales regulation; taxation; money transmission laws and anti-money laundering requirements; promotion and testing; ownership and licensing requirements; and mining.
A checklist of 12 steps for global in-house counsel to consider for the first hours of responding to a data breach.
This global initial public offering guide will help you navigate the US portion of a global IPO – in other words, an IPO in which you sell locally listed ordinary shares to investors outside the United States.
In this multi-jurisdictional guide, explore an overview of key legal issues, rules and developments regarding copyright across a range of jurisdictions.
ACC and Everlaw conducted a survey of 373 in-house legal professionals in the United States to better understand the extent to which corporate legal departments are collaborating with other business units, how legal teams are collaborating with their law firms and other vendors, and how technology plays a role in enabling collaboration. The results reveal that although legal staff desire greater collaboration and there is a clear recognition of the benefits of doing so, there are impediments preventing legal teams from realizing that full potential.
Legal Operations professionals know that a significant key to their success is rooted in stakeholder buy-in. Conference after conference, seminar after seminar, we speak *around* what it means to be in-house legal connected to the broader enterprise. We avoid topical change management and stakeholder engagement but never truly get to the underlying subject that takes this from influencer jargon theory to actionable tactics. We cannot all rely solely on our dynamic personalities and winning smiles to woo our coworkers: How do we turn the abstract of interpersonal influence into a real, functional relationship that benefits all involved? Read this article to find out.
In this multi-jurisdictional guide, explore an overview of key legal issues, rules and developments regarding business crime across a range of jurisdictions.