This article lays out the steps you need to develop, maintain, and enforce a records management program and helps get your corporate house in order.
Changes have been afoot in the EU's competition laws, with one of the most important being 25 member states now have the power to rule on all aspects of EU competition law, in to the national competition rules that each has at its disposal. It's no wonder in-house often feel that just when they achieve compliance in one jurisdiction, problems arise in others-much like Hercules when he battled the Hydra. Here is a guide to successfully conquering the multi-headed hydra while complying with EU competition laws.
The articles in this Out In Front include: Going Global: Developing Lawyers from Developing Countries Shoveling Smoke, Retreating Forward: 10 Steps for a Successful Offsite, The Biz: Juris Doctor Strangelove, Business Ethics: Hey Bub! Listen Up!, and The Contractual Cogitator: Immortal Warranty Sustains Boring Machine Case.
In a post-Sarbanes-Oxley world, in-house counsel of public (and private) companies have reason to worry that the SEC might turn its attention to their clients. The SEC is funded to take action; its budget for enforcement has increased exponentially in recent years. What happens if your company becomes the subject of an SEC investigation? How do you respond appropriately? This article will set forth some practical steps in-house counsel should consider in the event that her company receives notice that it is under SEC scrutiny.
Three companies share their experiences with online compliance training tools, including proven techniques for successful implementation and outlining the challenged they had to overcome.
This toolkit provides a guide to some of the basics of financial accounting terms and concepts that are key to in-house lawyers for understanding the company's financial statements as well as a guide to establishing a law department from scratch.
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.
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.
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.