John Villa discusses the applicable rules concerning ex parte interviews with your employees
US companies are constantly expanding, allowing them to stay competitive, but also opening the door to corporate compliance risks. Managing global risk with a strong compliance program is even more crucial following recent corporate scandal, and this article discusses the issues that can arise and offers suggestions on how to be effective.
This issue discusses nondisclosure agreements, the effectiveness of nondisclosure agreements under Belgium law, and food packaging and labeling.
This article illustrates why your organization must take fundamental steps to make your code of ethics "real."
Is your company acting within US import and export laws, fulfilling the legal obligations that fall under them? As the company's legal expert, in-house counsel needs to make sure that the company understands and complies with the many laws associated with this aspect of business.
Bribes of any kind are wrong, right? Well, not the small "facilitation payments" allowed under the FCPA exception. Learn why making these small payments can lead to big problems and ways that companies can implement and enforce a policy against all bribes.
Working within the television industry presents a unique set of challenges for the chief legal officer (CLO) overseeing the company's law department. Most CLOs have to balance the business interests with the legal interests, but TV One's Karen Wishart has one other thing thrown in on her balancing act - creative interests.
Directors and officers need to be concerned with the terms and conditions of their company's D&O liability insurance. Company heads are demanding that in-house counsel ensure that the broadest coverage available is in place, and this article will help you review the scope of protection for your company.
A derivative suit has been filed against the company, its directors, and some officers. There are no advice-of-counsel issues that would be implicated in this instance by your representation of both the company and the individual defendants, but can one law firm represent everybody? What are the risks? Can you ever have too many lawyers?
This article explains the three types of rule breakers: inadvertent, rationalized, and calculating. Each one requires a slightly different compliance strategy.