A run/walk/bike ride/bull-riding contest sounds like a great fundraising idea. But what should in-house counsel be thinking about when they are planning for an active event or negotiating contracts with vendors? Learn from the voices of experience.
At the Plainfield Healthcare Center in Plainfield, Ind., a nursing assistant was subject to unfair practice because her employer honored its patients’ racial preferences. Ensure your employees’ protection from third- party harassment; a judge won’t buy that the customer is always right.
As global economies recover from the credit crisis, lack of available funding is crippling major infrastructure initiatives, and financial advisors are searching for new sources of credit to get their projects off the ground. The Province of Ontario, however, may have found a solution to the problem: a pooled financing vehicle. This article demonstrates the success of local governments using such a model to fund new infrastructure development.
Typically, all potentially responsible parties (PRP) are held jointly and severally liable for the costs of environmental cleanup at hazardous waste sites. The bankruptcy of a PRP can further complicate the already burdensome task of allocating those cleanup costs. This article proposes a reevaluation of strategies when allocating costs, filing claims and litigating issues related to environmental remediation.
An important function of every in-house legal department is to provide compliance and ethics training to its non-legal clients – that is, the organization's employees. Effective training on pertinent laws and regulations can help prevent and detect legal problems, and can also limit or mitigate the organization's exposure if violations occur. This program will provide practical guidance for (i) developing training content that conveys the essential information to the employees who need it, (ii) delivering that information in a comprehensible and engaging manner, (iii) ensuring that all employees who should be trained actually receive their training, and (iv) tracking these activities in order to prove up each employee's training participation if/as needed. Attendees will leave this program with ACC resources that will jump-start your training and save you time and money.
For more compliance and ethics training resources, visit ACC's new Compliance Training Portal at <a href=http://www.acc.com/compliance>www.acc.com/compliance</a>.<br/>
This article focuses on the challenges involved in the discovery phase of litigation when dealing with foreign companies. Understand what obstacles can impede the discovery process and what legal measures, if any, may be taken to avoid these complications.
This resource is a sample document explaining a company's confidentiality policy and security procedures.
While these findings specifically relate to the private sector, our experience suggests that they are also relevant to the public sector and non-governmental organizations, both of which encounter many of the same fraud and corruption issues.
People in positions of power generally have the intelligence and experience to lead their companies into the next level of success. Their executive qualifications, however, do not guarantee that they are warm, fuzzy people persons who treat their staffs with respect. When execs are behaving badly, corrective coaching can be a way to transform a roughshod employee into an exemplary one.