Vol. 9, No. 33, Autumn 2015

Managing contractual obligations is a key role of in-house legal departments. Many times, the process is clear: prospective agreements are reviewed, and obligations are identified and communicated to the appropriate...Read more

Outsourcing is as old as the hills and any discussion around its increasing prevalence in today’s economy is merely a result of increased prominence in the media. Companies have worked...Read more

The practice of law is a service. Yet few in-house lawyers are assessed on the quality of their service and fewer still actually inquire about it. After nearly a decade...Read more

For compensation purposes, most companies probably treat their inside lawyers just like everyone else. This means that they do market studies to determine what “market” compensation is for different levels...Read more

As the number of high profile data security breach headlines continue to mount around the world, so do the concerns for in-house counsel of how to prevent your company from...Read more

The Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, opened in 1999, was recently voted the best rugby stadium in the world. Its city centre location and fully retractable roof (the first in the...Read more

From 31 December 2016, manufacturers and distributors of packaged retail and insurance-based investment products (PRIIPs) will have to comply with the Regulation on Key Information Documents for Packaged Retail and...Read more

Over the last few years, economic reality has changed considerably, it is most likely that contracts or business deals agreed more than 5 years ago will no longer be in...Read more

Litigation and arbitration of construction disputes have become increasingly expensive, time consuming and unappealing. Adjudication, expert determination and dispute boards (evaluative ADR) are increasingly being used to resolve disputes in...Read more

As information becomes an ever-increasingly valuable commodity and, some would argue, as personal information becomes the most highly valued subset of that commodity, organizations are becoming all too familiar with...Read more

As information becomes an ever-increasingly valuable commodity and, some would argue, as personal information becomes the most highly valued subset of that commodity, organizations are becoming all too familiar with...Read more

Contractual disputes frequently arise out of disagreements between commercial parties around ambiguous or incomplete contractual terms. Negotiating parties will seek to incorporate the terms of their commercial arrangement within a...Read more

South Africa is a land of dichotomies. Whilst being the commercial hub of the continent, and having what is widely regarded as the most advanced Constitution in the world, it...Read more

The intellectual property rights (IPR) protection of China has become a worldwide hot topic. China, as a manufacturing giant, will inevitably become a country with a large number of intellectual...Read more

The tools available to GCs in managing the contracts in any organisation are now well developed. From supply chain certification to distributed document automation, the software tools to collapse legal...Read more

1. The European Regulation on interchange fees’ cap to card based transactions, and its entry into force on 9 December 2015 2. Understanding the prohibition of circumventing the interchange fees’ cap 3. The Durbin...Read more

Research and development is costly. International patent portfolios even more so. The business strategy of most corporations, when filing a patent application, is to seek some return on R&D investment,...Read more

Finally, it appears to be that though slowly, the economic recovery has arrived to Spain. The crisis that hit the Country in 2008 seems to be water under the bridge,...Read more

As more and more companies have made big compliance mistakes and have been caught by governmental authorities, pundits have been attributing these miscues to company culture. These incidents include the...Read more