Red Tape: Are You Cheating Your Employees?
Litigation from wage-and-hour disputes is skyrocketing. And you may be breaking the law without even knowing it.
Content: Article | Author: Christopher Caggiano | Source: Inc. Magazine | Subjects: Human Resources, Legal
Partnering Agreements
This organization helps companies review, draft and negotiate Partnering Agreements, including the 11 most common types of agreements:
1. Marketing Agreements
2. Distribution Agreements
3. License Agreements
4. R&D Agreements
5. Manufacturing/Supply Agreements
6. Outsourcing Agreements
7. Facilities Management
8. Personal and Corporate Guarantees
9. Letters of Credit
10. Proprietary Rights Agreements
11. Non-competition Agreements … [ Read more ]
Content: Online Resource | Source: The Corporate Partnering Institute | Subject: Legal
marketinglaw.co.uk
marketinglaw.co.uk was Europe’s first dedicated on-line resource for advertising and marketing law, when it launched in September 1999. Now running to over 500 web pages, the site provides regularly updated information for brand-owners and marketing professionals, including in-depth analysis of the latest marketing and brand law issues, national and international case reports, previews of up-and-coming legislation affecting marketing, plus legal checklists and template agreements. … [ Read more ]
Content: Online Resource | Source: marketinglaw.co.uk | Subjects: Legal, Marketing / Sales
Safeguarding your innovative alliances
For many organizations, innovation is solely associated with “out of the box” thinking where a structured approach is unheard of. However, as more and more businesses realize that formalizing this process will ensure a steady stream of new ideas, a number of procedures and laws are coming into play. We take a look at one legal document that could help protect your innovative strategic alliances. … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Michael P. Mount | Source: ManagementFirst | Subjects: Legal, Strategy
Judicious Partnering
Online collaboration can be risky business without a clear understanding of legal issues and the roles and responsibilities of each participant.
Content: Article | Author: James Kalyvas | Source: Optimize Magazine | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Legal
Privacy Notices: No Good If No One Reads
What’s Wrong with This Picture?
Polaroid’s passage through Chapter 11 exposes how bankruptcy can give debtors too much power.
Editor’s Note: A very interesting high-level look at an important issue, bankruptcy, that many of us who have never been through probably know little about.
Follow-up: read more good CFO articles relating to bankrupcy…
Second Acts
Content: Article | Author: Kris Frieswick | Source: CFO Publishing | Subjects: Finance, Legal
Protect And Serve
It’s important to protect your company’s intellectual property. But are some businesses going too far?
Content: Article | Authors: John Soat, Tony Kontzer | Source: InformationWeek | Subject: Legal
You Can’t Outsource Liability For Security
Security requires a process, people, policies, education, and technologies to work together.
Content: Article | Author: Robert K. Weiler | Source: InformationWeek | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Legal
Cost of U.S. Tort System (“Bring on the Lawyers”)
Two nondisclosure agreements
Patent Office Approval Rates (US, Japan, Europe)
Manage e-mail risks so messages don’t come back to haunt you
During litigation proceedings, all documents, including electronic documents such as e-mails, can be subject to scrutiny. Now is the time to make sure everyone in your company is not using e-mail in a way that could backfire down the road.
Content: Article | Source: TechRepublic | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Legal
LawInfo.com
“LawInfo.com is the Internet’s oldest and most established resource for locating qualified attorneys and other helpful legal information. We have been providing visitors who need legal services with FREE solutions since 1995!
…LawInfo is constantly updating and adding to our FREE Legal Resource Center, where visitors can now find over 54,000 FREE legal forms, documents and FAQ’s that are easily downloaded and printed. These documents … [ Read more ]
Content: Online Resource | Source: LawInfo.com | Subject: Legal | Industry: Law
Tools for Protecting Your Intellectual Property
Using the Internet can save you money and time when doing preliminary research on patents, trademarks, and copyrights. Here are some resources to consider.
Content: Article | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Legal, Reference / Search
Edison in the Boardroom: How Leading Companies Realize Value from Their Intellectual Assets
“Edison in the Boardroom offers the reader something that is hard to find-a clear perspective and roadmap that shows how patent assets fit on the corporate landscape. The authors develop a unique five-level hierarchy of asset management and take us on a seamless trip from start to finish. Along the way, there are candid revelations of viewpoints and techniques, punctuated by anecdotes, practical examples and … [ Read more ]
Content: Book | Authors: Julie L. Davis, Suzanne S. Harrison | Subjects: Legal, Management
Reap the Rewards
IBM rakes in more than $1 billion in licensing revenue. A top-notch patent management program can benefit your bottom line, too, and bring in income in unexpected ways.
Content: Article | Author: Todd Datz | Source: Darwin Magazine | Subjects: Legal, Management
When Image is Everything
Want to know where to go for images, how to find and download them, and the copyright issues involved? Then focus in on this descriptive article by Nick Tomaiuolo and you’ll get the picture!
Content: Article | Author: Nicolas G. Tomaiuolo | Source: Searcher | Subjects: Legal, Reference / Search
Jim Collins
Of all the persistently good companies we studied in Good to Great, only one was led by a CEO who had an MBA. The most common academic background, oddly enough, was law. I asked one of the CEOs how law school helped prepare him to be a business leader, and he replied, “It taught me to ask the right questions rather than come up with … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Source: Business 2.0 | Subjects: Leadership, Legal
Technophobia Over the Years
Historically, the courts have refused to let copyrights block technology.
Content: Article | Author: Matthew Maier | Source: Business 2.0 | Subject: Legal
