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This article is geared towards members of Boards of Directors, C-level company leadership, and compliance professionals who recognize the need to continually improve compliance. Why is it important to drive...Read more

Information on a company’s costs and risks is crucial to the individuals responsible for the management of the organisation. The in-house legal function has an obvious role to play in...Read more

In the United States, patents are issued to the inventors and control of the prosecution of patent applications is presumed to be with the inventors. However, ownership of those patents...Read more

The arrival of the 10th Data Privacy Day on 28 January may have been a timely reminder for in-house counsel to review their businesses’ compliance with ever-changing European data...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

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

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

U.S. patents increasingly are challenged on validity grounds through inter partes reviews at the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB” or “board”). In fact, from September 2012 through June...Read more

As companies become increasingly consolidated under the ownership of very large corporations, there is a growing challenge in exercising appropriate safety governance over their constituent businesses. This challenge is compounded...Read more

Fierce business competitors have to step lightly to avoid liability under expansive American antitrust law and Anglo-American ‘commercial interference’ torts. However, both federal and state courts have increasingly interpreted the...Read more