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Mark Diamond, CEO & Founder, Contoural, Inc.

In this Quick Overview, learn how to calibrate your organization's efforts to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) in regards to data security, unstructured data, paper information, privacy maturity and more.

Jen Wolfe, Founder, Wolfe Board Advisory Group

In this quick overview for in-house counsel, learn about the basics of blockchain and what key legal and practical aspects in-house counsel should consider: What blockchain is, why it is important, what industries will be impacted, which companies are leaders, what role the legal department can play, and what questions in-house counsel can ask to mitigate risks and help guide business decisions regarding blockchain with a global perspective.

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Collection: Blockchain
Region: Global
Contoural, Inc.
5 pages

This is a glossary of Information Governance terms.

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Interest Area: Information Governance
Region: United States
Audience: New to In-House, Legal Operations
Anita Barker, Partner, Control Risks and Sorana Parvulescu, Partner, Control Risks

In-house counsel are ideally placed within their organizations to lead and coordinate a risk management approach for business development and market entry. This brief overview examines risk assessment for in-house counsel working with firms based in the Middle East.

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Region: United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Middle East
Foley & Lardner LLP

The concept of credentialing by proxy is designed to offer hospitals that wish to expand their services through telemedicine (referred to as “originating site hospitals”, or the sites where patients receiving the telemedicine services are located) a streamlined credentialing process for credentialing distant site telemedicine practitioners.

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Interest Area: Health Law
Region: United States
Audience: New to In-House, Small Law Departments, Large Law Departments
Holwell, Shuster & Goldberg

This QuickCounsel discusses how companies faced with subpoenas for documents in discovery disputes under US law may position themselves to invoke the Foreign Sovereign Compulsion Doctrine, in light of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

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Source: Resource Library
Region: European Union, United States
Kelly Thompson, Foley & Lardner, LLP

This brief article discusses who business associates are, what are some required elements of a business associate agreement, and how to manage risks of business associate agreements in the United States.

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Interest Area: Commercial and Contracts
Source: Resource Library
Region: United States
Rafael Sánchez, Bernardo Sada and Diego Medrano; Cuesta Campos y Asociados

This article presents scenarios found in Mexican legislation, showing a clear tendency to hold individuals, either legal representatives, agents, partners, or shareholders, liable for the unlawful acts carried out by the entities that they own and/or represent.

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Source: Resource Library
Region: Mexico
Manyl Benredouane, Alexandre Lamarre and Thomas Rousset, University of Montpellier, Centre du Droit de l'Entreprise, Program of Master 2 "Droit du Commerce International"

In most business transactions, lawyers are not involved in determining the ultimate price. However, in some situations, this amount can raise a red flag as it might subject the parties to sanctions. Due consideration must be given in particular to tax (I) and contract (II) law in the European Union.

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Source: Resource Library
Region: European Union
Audience: New to In-House, Small Law Departments
Richard D. Lutkus, Andrew Lucano and Tushar P. Vaidya

This QuickCounsel (Quick Overview) outlines what companies could have done and should be doing to protect their data against cybersecurity threats.

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Source: Resource Library
Region: United States
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