Reviews the reasons for compliance, considerations impacting placement of the compliance function, and varying approaches to creating a program. Then discusses the critical importance of measuring your program's effectiveness, and explores some tools to measure effectiveness and to tailor that measurement process for particular companies and stages of compliance.
Discusses the limits of what an attorney engaged in pending litigation may say to the media through Rule 3.6 of the Model Rules and legal or court-ordered limitations.
An effective corporate intellectual property program provides protection for valuable intangible assets, generates income, and enhances a company's value. It is one that protects both a company's rights and minimizes risk that the company may infringe on the rights of others. What's not to like? Yet too often, companies neglect doing an IP audit until there's a cease-and desist letter on the GC's desk. Learn how to perform an IP audit and find ways to maximize revenues while minimizing exposure. It's every in-house lawyer's dream, isn't it?
By the end of 2005, all listed EU companies will be required to prepare their consolidated financial statements in accordance with new international standards, rather than their national accounting standards. It's a big change that will challenge most EU companies, since the vast majority follow national standards. Find out how much U.S. companies are affected, what the changes are, and what pitfalls lie along the way.
The data protection issues raised by outsourcing are important to
virtually every medium or large organization. Most have multiple service providers processing personal information on their behalfâ??a customerservice call center, a pensions/benefits administrator, a payroll administrator. And, an increasing number of organizations have at least some of their data processed offshore. The consequences of ignoring the related data protection issues are significant. It's not just reputational risks that are growing,
there are also legal exposures to fines and civil penalties. In this
article, the authors identify the most common data protection issues created by outsourcing and similar service provider arrangements, and suggest practical solutions for addressing them.
Summarizes the nature of the new security requirements arising from new regulations and provides an outline for preventing "the Monday morning horror" for your client, with special attention to the unique needs of the law department residing within the corporation.
Cutting legal costs is still a high priority with many a CEO, and there's a new tool to do so: procurement analyst, or strategic sourcing professional. With novel ideas about the best vehicle(s) for buying professional services, their ideas that can either make CLOs uneasy or excited. Learn what strategic sourcing can do for your department's budget, before the CEO comes knocking with a sourcing consultant in tow.
The General Electrics of the world do it, and so do smaller real estate holding companies. Outsourcing legal services to India can be a low-cost option, but is it really a solution, or just creating a new batch of problems? Read the story of a company that has used legal services from India, and find out what projects are good candidates for such offshoring, which are not, and whether it's worth the political risk to take the plunge in the offshoring ocean.
This article explains that depending on how you handled the document production, inadvertently produced documents may retain their privileged status after disclosure. Also, depending on how obvious their privileged nature is, opposing counsel may have an ethical obligation to refrain from using them until a court finds a waiver has occurred.
Discusses the importance, challenges, and benefits of business partnering and includes business partnering examples.