This issue discusses confidentiality, competitive activity, protected disclosures, and whistleblowing in Europe.
Examines the ethical rules and their interpretation by both courts and ethics' commissions to determine whether an agreement within a settlement package is unethical.
Discusses three broad categories of compliance and ethics program performance metrics that should be considered to provide the balanced score card needed to make rational judgments about how well your program is working.
Understanding the challenges and everyday activities involved in working for a European subsidiary of a United States-based company is essential. Let Michael Finn break it down and assist you with the challenges of working with other countries and the general dynamics in the United Kingdom.
Examines four principles you might consider conveying to employees to help them comply with applicable intellectual property laws.
Discusses the advantages of a compliance/ethics office and compliance/ethics officer.
A recent change in federal law enforcement policy governing federal criminal investigations of corporate crime has corporations and their lawyers wondering whether it will effect a real difference in practice. The question that remains to be answered is whether the practice of demanding waivers of privilege and pressuring companies not to advance attorneys' fees to employees has become so entrench in white-collar practice that, in order to curry favor with prosecutors, corporations will "willingly" offer them without a request.
Read this 2008 Apex Award-winning article!<br/>The "new job" of in-house and outside counsel involves acting as a private eye of sorts. Tracking down allegations of wrongdoing, which range from the improper use of the company car by a manager, to securities fraud by the CEO, has developed into a legal sub-specialty that is taking up a lot of lawyer's days. Here, the authors point out the recent trends in corporate America that will possibly effect how this area of the law will continue to evolve.
Discusses ACC's success in advocating for protection of the attorney client privilege.