This Wisdom of the Crowd, compiled from responses posted on the Financial Services eGroups, addresses Power of Attorney (POA) Issues Arising From the Changing of Beneficiary Selections, Other Policy Terms, and Competency Considerations.
This Wisdom of the Crowd, compiled from questions and responses posted on the Compliance and Ethics Forum, addresses the standard reporting structure for the General Counsel (GC) role within an organization.
This Wisdom of the Crowd, compiled from questions and responses posted on the IT, Privacy and eCommerce eGroup, addresses the legal concerns that arise when taking photographs of employees and non-employees at company events, to be used for marketing and other promotional purposes by the organization in the United States.
This white paper explores the reasons that defensible disposition programs stall out, and outlines several strategies to help organizations “push the delete button” with confidence.
Waiting for litigation to occur can be both risky and expensive – especially for companies with high litigation profiles. Because of their urgency, responding to discovery and placing legal holds can disrupt business operations and consume available resources, making it hard for a company to get out of the reactive discovery mindset. Instead of waiting for discovery requests to appear, organizations in the Untied States need to anticipate and prepare for future litigation requirements.
This article discusses how the Data Classification Standard (DCS) will specify security controls for identified activities that could potentially affect the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of the documents or data.
This article outlines the benefits of replacing a reactive, ad-hoc discovery process with a proactive litigation readiness program that can substantially reduce the risks and costs of implementing legal holds, collecting relevant electronically stored information (ESI), and otherwise responding to eDiscovery requests for companies based in the United States.
In addition to the professional requirements, and the risks of sanctions or adverse decisions, corporate counsel must avoid the high costs of excessive collection and processing by outside vendors -- and the resulting increases in review costs as well.
This short article presents the top ten considerations when assigning an expatriate employee to Mexico from the tax, immigration, corporate and labor perspectives.
This article explores the takeaways from a UK case, which highlights the risks of bidding on a competitor’s trade name(s) (and/or variants thereof) that is/are confusingly similar to the bidder’s own trade name(s) as Internet search keywords.