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Welcome to the U.S.: America is Open for Business Understanding the B-1 Visitor for Business Visa Classification
More than one million people legally enter the U.S. every day. Because of traveling restrictions created after the 2001 attacks, however, the number of visitors to the U.S. has been...Read more
Fabricio Lopez
Adjunct Professor/Principal Counsel, The Walt Disney Company, USA
Protecting Your Organization, Your Board, Yourself: What every in-house counsel needs to know about D&O insurance
As in-house counsel, you are expected to provide input into the analysis and management of risk for your organization. You may also be a director or officer yourself, and thus...Read more
Shelley Lloyd
Vice President, Senior Legal Consultant, Aon Reed Stenhouse Inc, Canada
In-house v. Outside Counsel: Best of both worlds
Gone are the days when in-house counsels send out all relevant cases to just one outside counsel, with whom it had a good and solid relationship built over years and...Read more
Lisette Leuftink
Corporate Legal Counsel, Transavia Airlines C.V., Netherlands
Social Accountability and Tax-Exempt Senior Healthcare Care Providers
Non-profit tax-exempt senior healthcare providers (“nonprofits”) have an obligation to demonstrate their charitable nature and the community benefits they provide. Their missions mandate such demonstrations and their tax-exempt status depends...Read more
David Grant
Senior Vice President and General Counsel, American Baptist Homes of the West, USA
Making M&A a Core Competency
For many companies, transactions involving acquisitions and dispositions of businesses (commonly referred to as mergers and acquisitions or M&A transactions) are extraordinary events that occur infrequently and require no in-house...Read more
Jeff Adelman
Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, J2 Global, USA
The Transactional Side of the International Arbitration and the Role of Corporate Counsel
In the business community, almost 100% of arbitrations are initiated by companies. For them, arbitration is clearly an appropriate way to solve disputes when breaches of contracts or treaties...Read more
Jorge Perez-Vera
Senior Legal Counsel, Total Marketing Services, France
Compliance Challenges for In-House Counsel - Should ethical standards for conducting business be different from country to country?
Should ethical standards for conducting business be different from country to country? Since human behaviour in general must conform to ethics, a first answer seems to be "no". However, there...Read more
Karina Pelaez
Legal Assistant Manager & Chief Compliance Officer, Toyota Compañia Financiera de Argentina S.A., Argentina
Laws Private Sector Business Attorneys Should be Aware of When Negotiating With a Government Entity in the United States
The San Diego Association of Governments, known as SANDAG, is a regional government agency in San Diego County, California. The agency serves as a public forum for policy decisions about...Read more
Julie Wiley
Special Counsel, Sandag, USA
On Stranger Tides of Regulation: In-House 'Lawyering' in the European and US Online Gambling World
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Martin Lycka
Legal Counsel , The Betfair Group , UK
Understanding Commercial Dispute Finance in the United States
Litigation is always a costly proposition. Although fraught with risk, it often represents a party’s only hope for redressing wrongs. The decision to bring suit is a momentous one, with...Read more
Max Volsky
Legal and Financial Counsel, Lexstone Capital, USA