Tag: White Paper
Emerging Trends in Cyber-Risk Oversight
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The recent meeting between NACD’s Audit Committee Chair and Risk Oversight Advisory Councils featured discussions on emerging trends in cyber-risk oversight and their implications for directors.
Negotiating Equipment Rental Contracts With Large Customers
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Most of the risks can be limited or eliminated, but doing so requires a very clear understanding of your equipment, your customers, your surroundings and your legal exposure.
Health Care Arbitration Agreements: Five Ways to Improve Enforceability
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Because the arbitration laws stack the deck against a facility, there is no foolproof way to draft an arbitration agreement; what may be found enforceable by one judge may be found unenforceable by another.
Implementing Contract Management Software – Best Practices
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CobbleStone Systems has published a white paper designed to help companies implement new contract management software, beginning with preparation and continuing through the complete process.
9 Cybersecurity Tips to Mitigate Your Legal Liability
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There is no doubt that cybersecurity needs to be an important priority to the business and that real attention needs to be paid to the issue, Carrington Coleman says on its website.
Three Provisions to Change in your Oilfield Master Service Agreements
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Hidden perils in oilfield master service contracts have the potential to bring even a thriving company to its knees, making even big business with big clients a big mistake, writes Jordan J. La Raia in Gardere’s Texas Energy Law blog.
Use Email Domains for Filtering and Privilege Review
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Email discovery is at the nexus of high volume and low relevance. Although email discovery is burdensome and expensive, it’s also necessary and important. Filtering using email domains is a cost-effective means of culling significant volumes of non-relevant email with minimal human review.
Drafting Intellectual Property Agreements: Best Practices From a Litigator’s Perspective
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Whether negotiating a complex cross-license of intellectual property rights or drafting a supplier agreement, practitioners should consider certain license provisions and practice notes to ensure that a party’s licensing objectives are met.
Practical Guidance on Drafting and Negotiating Commodities Contracts
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Reed Smith has posted a discussion on drafting and negotiation commodities contracts, with a focus on Chinese counterparties with emphasis on successful enforcement in China.
What is a Smart Contract?
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A Bloomberg BNA article by two Holland & Knight lawyers on blockchain technology and its potential application to the legal industry sets out basic concepts and terminology surrounding smart contracts.
How Weak Contract Management Prevents GCs from Answering CEO’s Toughest Questions
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A complimentary white paper from Exari discusses survey findings that highlight gaps in risk and revenue insight created by poor contract management practices.
The Critical Role of Contracts in Corporate Compliance Programs
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Merrill DataSite is offering a complimentary evaluation tool that addresses the challenges faced in the ever-changing world of corporation compliance.
Fixing Your Contracts: What Training in Contract Drafting Can and Can’t Do
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Any contract will likely be riddled with deficient usages that collectively turn contract prose into ‘legalese’ — flagrant archaisms, botched verbs, redundancy, endless sentences, and meaningless boilerplate.
Physician Contract Checklist
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An article on Holland & Hart’s Health Law Blog provides a 40-point checklist that can be used when preparing or reviewing contracts involving the work of physicians.
EDD Basics: The Three Parts of a Keyword Search, Part 2
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Keyword searching is one of the workhorses of eDiscovery. The second part of a two-part series covers grammar, validation and more.
Understanding the Scope of a Software Audit
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Software publishers regularly audit their customers to help ensure that the customers are properly licensing their software. The first step in addressing the software audit is to understand the scope of the audit.
Criminalizing the Second Oldest Profession: Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
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In the post-Enron and post-financial crisis era, anti-corruption compliance programs have been a key focus for boards of directors, audit committees and senior management of many multi-national companies, writes Arkady Bukh of New York’s Bukh Law Firm.
Law Department Performance: A Discussion with Tom Sager and Shahzad Bashir
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Morae Legal President and Chief Executive Officer Shahzad Bashir recently sat down for a conversation with Ballard Spahr partner and former DuPont General Counsel Tom Sager.
EDD Basics: The Three Parts of a Keyword Search, Part 1
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Use of keyword searching in general is driven by two interlocking goals. The first is to improve review efficiency by narrowing the scope of review to documents most likely to be relevant. The second goal is to improve feasibility and cost-effectiveness of reviewing large volumes of ESI by culling non-relevant documents prior to the costly attorney review stage.
Case Study: Using Near-Duplicate Detection to Find Documents
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Maureen Holland of D4, LLC has written a case study describing how expert consultants inexpensively applied analytics to find documents that would not have been found though traditional review and saved the client $134,955.
