Risk Management

Build A Company-Wide Culture Of Compliance

At the same time that budgets are flat or increasing modestly, the job of legal departments keeps getting bigger and […]

Ingredients Of A Sound Legal Hold

Recipients of a legal hold memo don’t necessarily need to know what “misappropriation of trade secrets” means, or what court […]

Sleeper Requirement: Climate Change Disclosure

Companies are advised not to become complacent about climate change and sustainability disclosure obligations, despite the fact there has been scant followup to a…

Leverage HR To Address Risk Of Data Breach

For all the paranoia about organized hackers, foreign and domestic, in fact most data-breach problems are the result of negligent […]

A Scrappy GE Fights Local Property Taxes

General Electric Company has saved millions by contesting local property tax assessments in several states. The company is said to have a large internal staff of tax experts, but also to retain tax-abatement specialist law firms…

Oil Industry Report Warned Of Climate Change In ’82

A report commissioned by the American Petroleum Institute in 1982 outlined several models for climate change, all of them pointing […]

Liability For Third Party Vendor’s Conduct

More and more corporate services – accounting, HR and recruiting, and payroll processing, among many others – are being outsourced […]

EEOC Wants Tougher Retaliation Rules

Proposed changes would “further stack the deck against employers” by expanding the definition of both…

Hacking Is A Tough Way To Make A Living

A recent survey by the Ponemon Institute got feedback from about 300 hackers, most of them from the U.S., the UK and Germany. Their average yearly “compensation” would ….

Fear Of Liability Haunts Corporate Boards, Hinders Recruiting

It was already getting more difficult for companies to recruit board members, but following the Yates Memo of September last […]

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