Read this article to learn how to make your company's code of conduct effective.
Read this article for an overview of the Act and related rulemaking, and to learn how to cope with the changes wrought by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
Read this article and learn a practical step-by-step approach for transforming your company's well-intentioned workplace policies and procedures into a system that delivers.
This article gives you an overview of EU data protection law, explains why U.S. in-house counsel should be concerned about EU data protection laws, shows you a roadmap to compliance, and gives you a workplan template for achieving and maintaining compliance.
Until recently, document retention policies and advice by in-house counsel on their application were hardly front-page news. The unfolding events in the Enron/Andersen story illustrate how document retention policies and advice by in-house counsel concerning their application can become the subject of intense scrutiny if the destruction of documents and advice on the destruction occur when government investigations and litigation are either threatened or pending.
In the past several years, the SEC has substantially increased requirements for the audit committees of public companies. The NYSE, NASD and AMEX have also created requirements for audit committee members. Read this article to see how to navigate these requirements and reform your company's audit committee requirements in light of the Enron debacle.
How does HIPAA's privacy rule affect in-house counsel?
Do you know how to make your company comply with privacy standards? This article gives you an overview of relevant legislation and the various standards endorsed by industry trade groups.
Before meeting with outside counsel to develop principles on certain conflicts of interest issues, review the basic legal and ethical principles on: (1) former client conflicts, (2) corporate family conflicts, (3) waivers of future conflicts, and (4) accommodation clients.
Examine the connection between electronic discovery and due diligence, and get to know the evolving role of digital data management in mergers and acquisitions.