Gen Z Joins the Workforce
A fresh crop of entry-level workers is about to join the workforce. “Generation Z” is currently the term most accepted to define those born in the late 1990s and after, with the oldest born around...
View ArticleOvercoming Budget Hurdles Due to Covid-19 Litigation
Three months into the pandemic, expectations about budgeting in legal departments have changed. Survey data shows that only 19 percent of in-house legal departments expected an increase in their...
View ArticleHow In-House Counsel Can Protect Trade Secrets
As bring-your-own device policies proliferate, and digital storage become cheaper and more prevalent, it has gotten easier to pilfer trade secrets. A key point in understanding trade secrets is that...
View ArticleA Checklist for FCPA Compliance
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act contains two key provisions: (1) a prohibition on bribery of foreign officials and (2) accounting and reporting provisions for companies registered with the Securities...
View ArticleNew York Latest State to Enact Cybersecurity Law
With its Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security (SHIELD) Act. New York joins a growing number of states that have enacted cybersecurity mandates. Potentially reaching persons and businesses...
View ArticleCovid Brings Transfer Pricing Issues
As multinational groups respond to the challenges presented by the coronavirus outbreak, many of them need to update their transfer pricing policies and internal supply chains, as well as their...
View ArticleInvestors Pushing Environmental and Social Proposals
An increasing number of institutional investors have begun to include environmental and social (E&S) considerations within their established risk-return analysis framework. Pledges by asset...
View ArticleCutting Litigation Costs in a Post-Covid World
Attorneys who do not create litigation analyses and budgets early in the case cost clients’ money in wasted effort and unnecessary tasks. Attorneys are sometimes unwilling to give clients comprehensive...
View ArticleA Women-Owned Law Firm’s Perspective
The authors, co-founders of a woman-owned and operated firm, note that while women-owned businesses comprise almost 40 percent of privately owned businesses in the United States, and more women attend...
View ArticleTen Mistakes Lawyers Make in Mediation
First on the list, not nailing down the deal at the mediation. After a long day of haggling that ends in a tentative agreement, parties may pack up and walk out promising a shot at a draft settlement...
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