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Too Big To Fail in the Dodd-Frank Era
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License to travel: how regulation is benefiting business abroad
Common Employment Law Mistakes for Small, Start-Up and Growing Companies
Ted Hester on Congressional Investigations
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Zimmermann: Up to 20% of AmLaw 200 "Badly Weakened"
Survey: Law Firms Must Change, But Don't Know How
Sullivan & Cromwell's M&A Hotline is Ringing
Andrea Weckerle on CiviliNation
Going on the Offense: Proactive Strategies to Reduce Uncertainty
Eliot Frick on Smart Social Media Strategy
Safeguards against Data Security Breaches (Part One)
Safeguards against Data Security Breaches (Part Two)
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Suzanne Rich Folsom and Bart M. Schwartz on Corporate Compliance in 2011
In This Publication: - Preface - General Information - Immigration - Investment Factors - Intellectual Property - Principal Forms of Business Entities - Taxation -...more
Top Five Traps for the Unwary in Spin-Offs - A wave of corporate breakups has swept through the United States over the last few years as investors have taken notice of the fact that smaller companies focused on a...more
Watch our latest Corporate Law Report for a round of executive speed dating, law firm style. Included in the mix: FICA tax changes in 2013; veganism as a religion (and what that means for the workplace); overtime hours;...more
Are your trade secrets at risk? Yes, every minute of every day. Can you minimize the risk? Yes, by creating a corporate culture where each employee recognizes the value of trade secrets to corporate health....more
A bill currently winding its way through the California Legislature would limit the ability of an employer to request that an employee provide access to the employee’s personal social media accounts. AB 1844 “would...more
The travails of one Sergey Aleynikov are well-known to trade secrets and competition lawyers like myself. This is the ex-Goldman Sachs programmer who spurred litigation from Chicago to New York, eventually resulting in a...more
Every start-up lawyer counsels his or her client to be sure that everyone working for the company signs an agreement confirming that the company owns everything that’s developed by the company. However, when it’s time to sell...more
Incorporating the use of social media and online networking sites into an association's larger communication, membership, or marketing strategies raises a number of potential legal risks and liability issues for the...more
A comprehensive independent contractor agreement to use to protect your intellectual property when you hire a contractor to produce work for your company. ...more
In This Issue: JOBS Act: Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act; Fracking: Ohio’s New Oil and Gas Boom; 2012 Estate Planning; American Airlines: Who’s Flying the Plane? Labor Law Update; S Corporations; Blow to Method...more
Table of Contents: - Overview...1 - Forms of Entity.... 1 - Establishing A Business...2 - Specific Form of Doing Business In Poland-Direct Sales...4 - Dispute Resolution Mechanism... 5 - Labor Matters and...more
List of legal and practical steps most entrepreneurs face in starting a business in Kentucky...more
RESOLVE TO SAFEGUARD COMPANY INFORMATION IN 2012 For many businesses, employees are the biggest investment and the primary safeguard of their confidential, proprietary and competitive information. For some employees,...more
Overview of latest updates under Corporate Laws, Securities Laws, FEMA, Taxation Laws and other laws/regulations....more
This is Part 2 of a two-part entry setting out some of the basic considerations for startups relating to using non-competition agreements. You can find Part 1 here. This part raises some considerations for you and your lawyer...more
This entry and the next will discuss a fairly difficult question for startups. That is whether to ask co-founders, executives and employees to sign non-competition (or non-compete) agreements with your company. While the next...more
Introduction This guide is intended to provide foreign business-people with an introduction to the basic kinds of laws and regulations that affect the conduct of business in the United States, and particularly in The...more
In This Issue: Selecting a Company Name: A Trademark Lawyer’s Perspective and Employee Rights When Buying Parts of an Insolvent Company in Germany Selecting a Company Name: A Trademark Lawyer’s Perspective ...more
Doing Business in Canada is designed to give business executives, counsel and potential investors from foreign countries a concise overview of Canada’s legal and economic framework and key business legislation. For those...more
Though the business community continues to recover from the economic collapse of 2008 and the more recent international debt crisis, the M&A market has experienced steady activity and even growth in recent months. This is...more
Agenda: • Legal Issues – “Similar Issues, New Platforms” (1) Educating Your “Speakers” (2) Entity Use of Online Social Media Platforms - Defamation, IP, Privacy, Agency (3) Entity Online Programs and...more
California Business and Professions Code Section 16600 provides that “every contract by which anyone is restrained from engaging in a lawful profession, trade, or business of any kind is to that extent void.” As discussed in...more
The Supreme Court's recent decision in Stanford v. Roche draws attention to the pitfalls of imprecise contract language. The Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which hung on the...more
Welcome to our Summer Newsletter. In this edition, we see why a landlord had to pay £270,000 after failing to consult with tenants. We look at the importance of credit control as businesses increasingly fear the...more
In This Issue: - Stanford v. Roche: A Cautionary Tale for Employers with Intellectual Property - Intellectual Property is 80% of the Value of a Business! - Avoiding Confrontations with Licensing...more
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