Corporate legal departments of all sizes are restructuring their costs and rethinking their budget priorities to respond to anticipated changes in demand this year. According to the Association of Corporate Counsel’s annual survey , 45% of chief legal officers...
By: Michael R. Overly , Foley & Lardner LLP. LEXIS PRACTICE ADVISOR RESEARCH PATH: IntellectualProperty & Technology > Software & Information Technology >Cloud Computing > Practice Notes > Drafting and Negotiating EffectiveCloud Computing...
By: Joseph Domenick Guarino , DLA Piper LEXIS PRACTICE ADVISOR RESEARCH PATH: Labor & Employment > Privacy, Technology, and Social Media > Navigating Social Media > Practice Notes > Developing Social Media Polices Social media platforms enable...
By: Elizabeth C. Rogers , Greenberg Traurig, LLP. A data breach occurs when sensitive, protected, and/or confidential information is stolen, accessed, or used without authorization. The information may include an individual’s personally identifiable information...
By: James E. Meadows , Culhane Meadows PLLC. Cloud computing is a subscription-based service that offers on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computer resources (e.g., networks, applications, servers, storage, etc.) that is usually hosted...
By: Timothy Murray , Murray, Hogue & Lannis. There are innumerable articles, books, and seminars that offer guidance on contract drafting style. Among many other things, they typically counsel drafters to avoid legalese, redundancy, inconsistency, and ambiguity—all...
By: Steven I. Glober , Gibson, Dunn & Cruther LLP. The purchase price provisions are among the most critical terms of a merger agreement. The value of the consideration to be paid by the acquirer to the target’s stockholders will be affected not only...
By: Julie Capell , Winston & Strawn LLP This article discusses how to draft effective internship agreements that comply with the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL’s) regulations concerning unpaid internships, as well as recent court decisions applying...
By: Michael Rave , Day Pitney LLP LEXIS PRACTICE ADVISOR RESEARCH PATH: Securities & Capital Markets > Post-IPO Equity Offerings > Other Equity Offerings > Practice Notes There are various ways in which companies can attempt to raise capital in...
By: Heather J. Meeker , O’Melveny & Myers LLP. LEXIS PRACTICE ADVISOR RESEARCH PATH: Intellectual Property & Technology > IP Licensing > Patent Licenses > Practice Notes > University Technology Transfer Technology transfer is when...
What Are Payroll Cards? Payroll cards—also known as payroll debit cards or paycards—are similar to bank debit cards. They are an increasingly popular method for employers to pay wages because they reduce the administrative costs associated with the...
By: Timothy Murray , Murray, Hogue & Lannis THERE IS A STAGGERING AMOUNT OF LITIGATION involving disputes over whether a binding contract was formed during contract negotiations. In a typical case of this kind, the parties agree on many issues while negotiating...
Checklist provided by Stephen R. Martin , partner at Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP This checklist includes key themes from the compliance program expectations of government regulators around the world and best practices broken into five essential elements...
By: Stephen R. Martin ARNOLD & PORTER KAYE SCHOLER LLP What is a Risk Assessment? A risk assessment is a review undertaken to help an organization understand its business and manage the related strategic, operational, financial, and/or compliance risks...
By: Terrance Oben OBEN LEGAL THIS ARTICLE DISCUSSES PRACTICAL STEPS THAT companies can take to successfully embed a positive...