Summarizes how to meet the deadline, study the response, get authorization to respond, and understand the ethical and regulatory rules regarding audit response letters.
When corporate abuses or illegal actions force an internal investigation of a senior staff person, your number one priority is to act promptly. Learn more about whistleblowing, the pathway to a successful investigation, and attorney-client privilege and you can limit your company's liability.
Discusses the importance of outsourcing contracts and contract principles under Belgium law. Also identifies material risk matters to assist in defining the appropriate arrangements in such contracts.
In order to preserve an ethical environment at your company, your employees need to feel comfortable enough to come forward and discuss problems informally and confidentially. While formal channels like hotlines are good, they're not enough in today's corporate setting. Read on for tips on how to set up your own ombuds program and the advantages the informality of it will provide for everyone.
Employment discrimination got you all mixed up? Here we present two, real life cases both filed by former employees terminated for poor performance near the same time and defended by the same counsel. See how even though both cases resulted in total victory for the employer, the different approaches of arbitration and litigation made one short and sweet and the other long and complicated.
The last three board meetings were ugly, but at least that maverick director is gone. He was nothing but trouble, always challenging management and questioning my legal advice. What? He has filed suit to enjoin the proposed acquisition, and he wants immediate discovery of my legal advice to the board? Preposterous! That's privileged, and he is not the privilege holder, the corporation is. He's out of luck. Or is he?
What are the practical issues involved in protecting confidential information? To best protect your company you need to know trade secrets and confidential information laws. Don't forget that undisclosed information varies from state to state and country to country. Read this article to brush up on the law, but even go beyond it and take actual physical measures to protect your company's data.
Sean Venden is the assistant general counsel for Dynamics Research Corporation in Andover, MA. Read his musings on managerial situations which call on you to follow your gut feelings, handle internal disputes, mediate and arbitrate.
Most large organizations use email disclaimers: wording carefully crafted by lawyers, automatically inserted at the end of every email. This article discusses what the disclaimers actually do.