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Jonathan Rotter
6 pages

This is a sample policy for teaming agreements.

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Interest Area: Nonprofit Organizations
Region: United States
Audience: Small Law Departments, Large Law Departments
Heidi Brown, Professor, Brooklyn Law School and Justin Martin, Associate General Counsel, Electric
Power Research Institute and Chair, Law Department Management Network

It’s OK to not be OK, but then what? There are many dimensions to well-being, including emotional, intellectual, occupational, physical, spiritual and social. Endurance athletes use specific techniques to build emotional and mental muscle around their physical muscle, and enhance their performance. Below are tips we can use to apply the same concepts to enhance our well-being and effectiveness as in-house counsel.

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Interest Area: Law Department Management
Region: Global
Audience: Small Law Departments, Large Law Departments
Ashley Cano, Joan Casciari, Paul Galligan, Karla Grossenbacher, Scott Hecker, and Stan Hill

This list has 10 considerations for employers to keep in mind from the perspectives of employment law, employee safety and health, and labor-management relations when it comes to the COVID-19 vaccines.

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Interest Area: Law Department Management
Region: United States
Audience: Small Law Departments, Large Law Departments
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Nancy P. Pei, Partner, Smart & Biggar LLP, and Daniel Wise, Carpmaels & Ransford LLP
4 pages

Amendments to the Canadian Patent Act and enactment of the Certificate of Supplementary Protection Regulations flowing from the Canada-European Union (EU) Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement introduced a new framework in Canada for the issuance of Certificates of Supplementary Protection (CSPs).

This chart compare key aspects of the two regimes, Canada's and the EU's.

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Region: Canada, European Union
Audience: Deputy GC, Mid-Career, Small Law Departments, Large Law Departments
Nancy Pei, Partner, Smart & Biggar LLP and Brian Coggio, Fish & Richardson PC
5 pages

The September 2017 amendments to the Patented Medicines (Notice of Compliance) Regulations introduced a new scheme for pharmaceutical patent linkage litigation in Canada. That scheme is now much closer to the United States' (US) Hatch-Waxman scheme, but with remaining key differences that are explained in this chart.

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Region: Canada, United States
Audience: Deputy GC, Mid-Career, Small Law Departments, Large Law Departments
Nancy Pei, Principal, Alice Tseng, Principal, Toronto Office and Daphne Lainson, Principal, Ottawa Office, Smart & Biggar LLP

Canada is an attractive market for pharmaceutical manufacturers. Most Canadian consumers have some form of drug coverage through government programs and/or private insurance. Below are ten patent and regulatory topics that in-house counsel need to know before bringing an innovative product to Canada.

Editor's note: This article was updated to reflect recent developments; the original version of this article was published on December 16, 2020.

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Region: Canada
Audience: Deputy GC, Mid-Career, Small Law Departments, Large Law Departments
David Chambers, Senior Counsel, Smith & Nephew, and Rosaline Oskanian
6 pages

In this Sample Trade Secret Policy, in-house counsel can review informative language about trade secrets and how to define them for potential new employees in the United States.

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Region: United States
Audience: Deputy GC, Mid-Career, Small Law Departments, Large Law Departments
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
1 pages

In this Sample Acknowledgement Form, an incoming employee is reviewing and acknowledging the trade secrets policy the hiring company has instituted.

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Region: United States
Audience: Deputy GC, Mid-Career, Small Law Departments, Large Law Departments
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
1 pages

In this example of possible "Notice" language about Whistleblower Immunity, language is constructed to inform a possible whistleblower of their rights and immunity.

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Region: United States
Audience: Deputy GC, Mid-Career, CLO / GC, Small Law Departments, Large Law Departments
Joel Bush, Partner, Allen Garrett, Partner, and Ben Richardson, Associate, Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
5 pages

In this Sample Exit Interview Form, a United States Company is categorizing access to tools and information from the former employee.

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Region: United States
Audience: Small Law Departments, Large Law Departments
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