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The Power of Corporate Pro Bono: What Would Mr. Fezziwig Do? | 11-10-2015

By Kristin Casler Featuring Eve L. Runyon, Esq., director, Corporate Pro Bono, and Traci Braun, associate general counsel, Exelon In the coming weeks, you’ll likely be wrapping carefully chosen holiday gifts to give friends and loved...

Non-Compete and Non-Solicitation Agreements: Protecting Confidential and Proprietary Information | 11-10-2015

By Kristin Casler Featuring C. Lawrence Holmes, partner, Dilworth Paxson; Eric Meyer, partner, Dilworth Paxson; and Sterling Miller, general counsel, Sabre Corporation (retired), and senior counsel, Gober Hilgers PLLC You should never be too...

How Dell and GE Embed a Culture of Compliance | 11-10-2015

By Kristin Casler, featuring Mike McLaughlin, vice president, chief ethics and compliance officer, Dell Inc.; and Al Rosa, chief compliance director and senior executive counsel at General Electric; and Susan Frank Divers, senior advisor, LRN. Do...

Which 2015 Supreme Court Cases Will Have the Greatest Impact? Depends On Whom You Ask | 11-10-2015

By Kristin Casler Was the Supreme Court’s decision granting gay couples a constitutional right to marry one of the Top 10 Cases of 2015? How about when it found unconstitutional a city’s demand to see hotel registries without a warrant...

The Seven Deadly Sins of Mergers and Acquisitions | 11-10-2015

By Lawrence Siff, CEO, Neptune Advisors One of the things my firm does is provide strategic advice on mergers and acquisitions to our middle-market clients. We have been involved with hundreds of deals and have seen how many deals go wrong often...

Opinion: Corporate Tax Reform in 2016? | 11-10-2015

The elections could make it a pivotal year to achieve needed change By Douglas S. Stransky, partner, Sullivan & Worcester Will 2016 be the year that U.S. corporate tax policy is finally overhauled? Will it be the year our corporate...

The Love-Hate Relationship with Social Media: Maximize Opportunities without Maximizing Risk | 09-04-2015

By Kristin Casler, featuring Christina Vassiliou Harvey of Lomurro, Munson, Comer, Brown & Schottland, LLC and Robert L. Rogers III of Holland & Knight In the legal ethics arena, the Internet and social media can be a high-wire act for attorneys...

Turning Your Expensive eDiscovery Model into Non-Litigation Corporate Cost Savings | 09-04-2015

By Kristin Casler, featuring Todd Haley of eTERA The amount of data that companies must manage is staggering, and continues to grow each year. As a routine part of your day-to-day operations, you maintain systems to collect and store electronic...

What to do When the Government Gets Personal with Compliance Enforcement | 09-04-2015

By Dan A. Bailey, Bailey Cavalieri LLC Corporate compliance efforts are no longer important just for companies. In an attempt to assure greater compliance diligence, regulators are now imposing harsh penalties on compliance officers and other individuals...

In an Instant—Strategies for Countering Lurid Litigation Details that Go Viral | 09-04-2015

By Erin Carney D’Angelo of DLA Piper Take your cue from two leading ladies of television—fictional characters Olivia Pope ( Scandal , ABC News ® ) and Liz Garvey ( Babylon , SundanceTV™). In a world of instantaneous communication...

Same-Sex Marriage: Now It’s in the Employers’ Court | 09-04-2015

By Kristin Casler, featuring John Balitis of Fennemore Craig When the U.S. Supreme Court decided Obergefell v. Hodges in June, it put to rest the question of whether gays and lesbians have the Constitutional right to marry. But that decision and...

Don’t Waste Your Time—Settlement and Mediation Techniques You Can Use Now | 09-04-2015

By Kristin Casler, featuring Richard Epstein, Sills Cummis & Gross P.C.; David Osterman, Goldberg Segalla; Bruce Nagel, Nagel Rice LLP; Honorable Thomas Olivieri, Chasan Leyner & Lamparello, PC; Honorable Garrett E. Brown, Jr., (Ret), JAMS; and...

LexisNexis On Demand Webinar: Lessons from the “Serial” Case: Ten Evidentiary Missteps to Avoid | 08-18-2015

Lessons From the 'Serial' Case: Ten Evidentiary Missteps to Avoid Live Date: August 18, 2015 Evidence is the lifeblood of a case. No matter which side you are on, there is a lot you have to get right and a great deal that can go wrong...

Where Employment Litigation Is Headed and How to Cut it Off | 07-01-2015

By Kristin Casler, featuring Ari Weisbrot of Fox Rothschild LLP and Todd Girshon of Jackson Lewis P.C. In the last five years, there has been a tremendous uptick in employment class actions, collective actions and systemic discrimination cases. And...

Got a Data Breach? Call a Cyber Lawyer First! | 07-01-2015

By Richard J. Bortnick of Traub Lieberman Straus & Shrewsberry LLP Data breaches don’t care about how mighty your organization is. Whether your company is Fortune 500®, middle-market or even a mom and pop, you’re at risk of a...

Internal Investigations—Perspectives, Immediate Steps, the Long Haul | 07-01-2015

By Kristin Casler, featuring Matthew Boxer of Lowenstein Sandler LLP, Michael Hayes of Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads LLP, Annemarie McAvoy of Ernst & Young and Bart M. Schwartz of Guidepost Solutions LLC. The only thing worse than...

Do You Need the Government to Tell You How to be Ethical with Big Data? | 07-01-2015

By Kristin Casler, featuring Tim Keller of Lindquist & Vennum LLP and Robert Carver of Brandeis International Business School Regulators from all walks of government are anxious to exert some control over data use and privacy. While companies...

Who’s the Next Target in the SEC’s Quest to Protect Corporate Whistle-blowers? | 07-01-2015

By Kristin Casler, featuring Jason Canales and Megan Daneshrad of Moses & Singer, LLP The Securities and Exchange Commission’s clear message in April that it is targeting language in confidentiality agreements that might deter whistle...

M&A: How to Prepare Your Company for Sale | 07-01-2015

By Stuart M. Horwitz and Jason S. Damicone of Horwitz & Damicone Published in the Advisory with permission of the author As with most planning, preparation is key to a successful sale of a company. You can eliminate or minimize possible issues...

Ten Things: Trade Secrets and Protecting Your Company | 04-27-2015

By Sterling Miller Sterling Miller has more than 20 years of in-house legal experience as General Counsel, Corporate Secretary, and Chief Compliance Officer of Sabre Corporation and Travelocity.com. He currently is Senior Counsel to Gober Hilgers...

Doctors and Lawyers—Employers That Incentivize Good Health May Need to Consult Both | 04-27-2015

By Kristin Casler Featuring R. Scott Oswald and Tom Harrington Is your company one of the many employers across the country that is rewarding employees for healthy habits? Regardless of whether your company uses an incentive-based employee...

From Snowstorms to Hurricanes to Earthquakes: Best Practices for Readiness | 04-27-2015

By Kristin Casler Featuring Joseph D. Jean of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP and Jennifer A. Kearns of Duane Morris LLP. When a long, cold winter ends, it can be easy to relax and enjoy the warm breezes of spring. Snap out of it! Tornadoes...

Lawyers and Social Media: How to Manage the Ethical Pitfalls of Modern Investigative Tools | 04-27-2015

In the physical world, lawyers routinely search public records and hire private investigators to gather information about witnesses, parties, jurors and even experts—all within the bounds of the Rules of Professional Conduct. Whether trying to understand...

Cuba: New Opportunities and Challenges for Financial Services Institutions | 04-27-2015

By Kristin Casler Featuring Simeon M. Kriesberg and Carol J. Bilzi of Mayer Brown LLP When President Obama announced that decades-long economic sanctions against Cuba would be eased, many business owners cheered the prospect of entering the largely...

The Burgeoning Cloud—Risks to Communicating and Storing Off Site | 04-27-2015

By Kristin Casler Featuring Francoise Gilbert of the IT Law Group Storing data and communicating in the cloud is tempting. There’s no easier way to access files when traveling or to share with colleagues around the globe. It usually is...

Human Trafficking—Is Your Supply Chain Due Diligence Diligent Enough? | 03-02-2015

By Kristin Casler featuring T. Markus Funk, Perkins Coie; Katie Shay, International Corporate Accountability Roundtable -- The International Labour Organization estimates that nearly 21 million people are victims of forced labor. With world...

Have Faith in Your Discrimination Policies | 03-02-2015

By Kristin Casler featuring Christina Stoneburner , Fox Rothschild; Peter Murphy, Shipman & Goodwin LLP -- Given the amount of time we spend on the job, it’s no surprise that our religious beliefs, or lack of them, make their way...

Sanctions Against Cuba, Iran and Russia and More: | 03-02-2015

Featuring Adam M. Smith, Senior Advisory to the OFAC Director and David Brummond, DLA Piper; Edited by Kristin Casler-- Corporate counsel doesn’t always have a good feel for the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control...

Corporate Tax Outlook: Uncertainty is a Certainty in 2015, KPMG Says | 03-02-2015

By Tom Hagy “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes,” Benjamin Franklin is quoted as saying. Will Rogers added that the only difference between these inevitable facets of life is that “death doesn’t...

Securities-Related D&O Litigation More Focused & More Intense, But is it “Effective”? | 03-02-2015

By Tom Hagy featuring: Priya Cherian Huskins, Woodruff Sawyer & Company While there may be some good news in the shrinking number of Directors & Officers (D&O) actions (at least those that would trigger D&O insurance coverage) and...

Are you happy with the Outside Counsel model? | 01-08-2015

By MOIRA KULIK, J.D. This article was written by Moira Kulik, J.D., a legal writer and attorney in Philadelphia -- If you are less than delighted with the traditional reliance on outside law firms to perform your organization’s legal work...

Are hackers after your M&A info? Before you answer, read on | 01-08-2015

We all know that people with inside information can time their investment decisions to make millions in the stock market, then perhaps enjoy whopping fines and prison time. But what if you can get inside information without the insider’s knowledge...

Corporate Crisis Failures: A Crisis Communications Veteran Shares Lessons Learned from 2014 | 01-08-2015

By MELANIE DOUGHERTY THOMAS, Managing Director, INFORM--- No company wants to find itself managing a crisis, but many organizations find themselves in that mode every day. Recent examples have ranged from massive data breaches and cyberattacks—most...

Class actions post-DOMA—Questions remain | 01-08-2015

By Kristin Casler with insights by LAURA J MAECHTLEN, Partner, Seyfarth Shaw LLP, San Francisco - - The demise of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) restriction of the institution of marriage to heterosexual unions was not the last chapter in...

Bring your own corporate espionage risks | 01-08-2015

By Kristin Casler featuring insights by DAVID LONG-DANIELS, Global Co-Chair of Greenberg Traurig LLP's Labor & Employment Practice Group -- So, you’ve let your employees bring their own devices (BYOD) to work. And they’re happy...

Trends in workplace bias law keep employers on their toes | 01-08-2015

The issue of race discrimination in America has recently been pushed to the top of our collective minds in the wake of 2014 grand jury decisions not to try police officers in the shooting deaths of unarmed African-Americans. The matter is one that law...

Lured in by cutting-edge technology? Learn before you leap | 01-08-2015

Edited by Kristin Casler featuring insights from DAVID LINGENFELTER Information Security Officer at Fiberlink, an IBM Company, maker of MaaS360 software-- As companies embrace new technologies, they can’t help but think about the associated...

Trade Secret Piracy: Fending Off Treasure Hunters | 11-01-2014

By Kathleen Archer, Esq. In case you missed it, you might want to put in on your 2015 calendar: International Talk Like a Pirate Day Trade is September 19 – every year. Between that and Johnny Depp’s Keith Richards-inspired portrayal of...

Age Discrimination: New Wrinkles on the Face of an Old Law | 11-01-2014

The gist of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA), while chockablock with numerous and sundry nuanced provisions, remains alive and kicking: “Bosses can’t fire Grandpa for being old.” While the essence survives,...

Best Practices for Workplace Drug and Alcohol Testing | 11-01-2014

CNBC ® reports : “Showing up to work high? You’re not alone.” According to a survey conducted by Mashable.com, 9.7% of Americans smoke marijuana before going to work. What’s more, of the 534 workers surveyed who admitted to...