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Numbing the Expert Pinch: Avoiding Expert Disqualification in Construction Litigation
This is the era of the expert. Modern construction litigation is a morass of Critical Path Method schedules and other intricate details that all but cry out for expert testimony....Read more
Steve Butler
In-house Counsel, Parsons Brinckerhoff Inc, USA
'thank you for your co-operation': A practical perspective on managing dawn raids and regulatory investigations
You can imagine the scenario: It’s Monday morning, 8:20am. The receptionists are just getting settled, and the few employees in the office are gathered around the coffee machine. All of...Read more
Frank Govaerts
General Counsel, Coca Cola, Belgium
The Real ID Act and the Public Administration of Global Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Policies
As a former prosecutor, I understood that each crime I prosecuted had certain “elements,” which must be proved beyond a reasonable doubt in order to secure a conviction. The “elements”...Read more
Bart Bevers
Attorney, Law Offices of Bart Bevers, USA
Trademarks in Mergers and Acquisitions
In many cases, when a company or business is acquired or where there is a merger of companies, the trade mark portfolio of the target company is ignored as unimportant....Read more
Su-Lin Ang
Head of Legal, Intellectual Property, Group Legal Department, Standard Chartered Bank, Singapore
Taking Over a Private Retail Company in Argentina
The first thing to ask. What is the rationale for an acquisition?
Mergers and acquisitions are considered by bidders to achieve strategic goals like the expansion of assets, sales and...Read more
Eduardo Mariscotti
VP Human Resources Walmart US, Walmart, USA
Public tenders and public contracts in Italy. The issues that large groups have to face when bidding/contracting with Italian awarding bodies
Italian law on public procurement has recently undergone substantial modifications with the enactment of legislative decree 163 of 12 April 2006, as subsequently, in a typical Italian style, amended, lastly...Read more
Giovanni Monterverde
Vice President Legal and Compliance MEA, Alstom Transport, France
Binding Corporate Rules, the Accenture experience
As a result of the increased awareness of the need to have effective compliance programs in place, the concept of data privacy has recently become very much a hot...Read more
Anne Wilkes
Independent data protection consultant, ACW Privacy Consulting, UK
Approaches to contracting: does the tail sometimes wag the dog?
This article will highlight the difference between commercial (usually more flexible) and corporate (usually more legal and sometimes more rigid) approaches to making and implementing contracts, and explore some of...Read more
Frank Sanford
Corporate Lawyer, MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A, Switzerland
Corporate Governance: Situation in India as compared to other countries with specific reference to Corporate Governance in US
Corporate Governance is one of the most discussed topics amongst Corporates today. The decade of 1990s could be remembered with the buzzword of ‘Corporate Governance’. It is a set of...Read more
Vivek Sadhale
Co-Founder, LegaLogic Consulting, India
Vikas Agarwal
Co-Founder, LegaLogic Consulting, India
From Sellafield to the States and back again: The journey of BNFL and the effect on its in-house legal services
This paper will discuss the development and ultimate decline of BNFL, a Government owned public limited company in the nuclear sector, and its in house legal team. It considers the...Read more
Sue Quint
Group Legal Director, Bnfl, UK