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With so many companies turning to contractors to perform tasks outside of their core business, compliance with federal and state safety and health laws can be a challenge for your clients. In this program we will look at the ways to use contracts to mitigate your company's safety liabilities. We will examine each of the phases of a contract, pre-qualification, qualification, bidding, contract formation, administration, enforcement, corrective action, and disengagement. You will receive an overview of the legal issues involving use of contractors within your facilities.

The procurement of IT services, whether in-bound procurement or outsourcing of IT and business processes, is complex and expensive. Most software transactions now involve significant services, including software development, so even modest procurements can cost hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars. IT outsourcing often involves multi-year commitments valued in the tens or hundreds of millions of dollars. This advanced course will focus on these two sides of IT services procurement, exploring common issues and ways to limit monetary and outcome risks.

If your company outsources or is thinking about outsourcing legal services, this program provided practical guidance about some of the issues that you may need to address. This included analyzing whether it is truly cost-effective to outsource in the first place. The panel discussed some of the areas of the in-house practice of law that have been outsourced the most, as well as some areas which may be future prime candidates for outsourcing, and which industries have experienced the most outsourcing activity and why.

This webcast discusses security, one of the most critical issues in complex sourcing and technology relationships, and it provides an overview of the lifecycle of the security issues in complex technology, services and sourcing transactions.

Discusses export import issues implicated in outsourcing deals between the U.S. and India, commercial disputes that arise out of these transaction, ownership of intellectual property and data protection and security in India.

David L. Dick -- former associate general counsel, Deloitte Consulting; David Jackson -- general counsel, AIG Technologies, Inc.; Nicholas R. Sayeedi -- vice president & associate general counsel, Echostar Communications; Eugene M. Weitz -- corporate counsel - lucent worldwide service, Lucent Technologies Inc.

903 - Out of Sight, Out of Mind? Structuring Outsourcing Agreements in India & Asia-Pacific

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Interest Area: Commercial and Contracts
Source: Meetings
Region: China, European Union, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States, Vietnam
Karen L. Boudreau - former counsel, Iomega Corporation; Michael F. Finn - senior counsel, General Dynamics Corporation; and Brendan Heneghan - regional counsel, IBM Corporation

A presentation on outsourcing your company's technology operations.

This practice profile is about the experiences of law departments at seven companies and a national law firm that, for varying reasons, decided to move some legal services to outside providers in the United States. It also describes service models used by some to in-source work that might have otherwise been performed by outside law firms. Featured corporate law departments are: Alcoa, Inc., American Express, DuPont, Golden West Financial; 3M, Reebok, and The Finish Line, Inc.

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Source: Resource Library
Region: United States
William J. Calore, Vice-President & General Counsel, Ulysses Chemical Corporation
3 pages

List of questions to ask before doing business in China. Includes considerations of how a company makes first contact with China, the Chinese legal system, and specific legal issues like IP rights and contract enforcement.

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Source: Resource Library
Region: China

Brief list of key terms to know when outsourcing immigration services.

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Source: Resource Library
Region: United States
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