By Jonathan Drimmer and Tara Giunta and Ruth Knox | December 3, 2024
As we perform our annual ritual of identifying 10 key business and human rights and sustainability issues for the upcoming year. Inspired by Human Rights Day, our top 10 business and human rights and sustainability topics for 2025 are below, in no particular order.
By Mike Evers | December 3, 2024
So here we are, about to live through Trump 2.0, and I realize that the career advice I have to offer is only useful for readers who voted the other way and still feel agitation or even anger over the result. The advice is this: Don’t get political at work.
By Meredith C. Doll and Melanie C. Walker | November 21, 2024
Donald Trump has shared plans for closing the U.S. borders and enforcing mass deportations for undocumented immigrants almost immediately after taking office in January. In this article, we address five major impacts to immigration policy we saw as a result of Trump's first term, and what we can expect for his second term.
By Emily Loeb, Sam Ungar and Michael Brady | November 15, 2024
In September, amid the divisive runup to the election, Senate Democrats and Republicans found something they could agree on: the CEO of Steward Health Care should be referred for criminal prosecution for refusing to appear at a hearing. The Senate’s unanimous vote marked the latest escalation in the legislative branch’s use of its coercive powers against private individuals. As the 119th Congress assembles next year, this vote may be a harbinger of even more aggressive private sector oversight to come.
By Alexander F. Koskey and Matthew White | November 11, 2024
The conclusion of Cybersecurity Awareness Month is a reminder of the importance for organizations to implement robust security measures and promote good cyber hygiene. In this article, we discuss ten essential best practices that all organizations should implement as foundational components of their cybersecurity framework.
By Mike Evers | November 9, 2024
While not all C-suite executives read their LinkedIn newsfeed, the number who do continues to grow and reading the newsfeed is nicely habit forming.It’s catnip for recruiters, of course, as we use it as a means to stay in touch with our contacts via likes, comments and reshares.
By David E. Carney | Edward J. Heath | November 7, 2024
The DOJ recently updated the Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs to direct prosecutors who are considering charges or resolutions to assess how a company addresses, among other topics, disruptive technologies and AI, self-disclosure initiatives, and the compliance function's access to corporate data.
Corporate Counsel | Expert Opinion
By Lionel Lavenue, Joseph Myles, Maram Al-Shaer | October 23, 2024
In the complex realm of corporate litigation, the sanctity of attorney-client privilege is often the backbone of a robust defense strategy. Yet, the scope of this privilege can blur when multiple corporations collaborate with separate legal teams. In such situations, the common interest privilege (CIP) becomes a crucial tool, enabling corporations with distinct legal counsel to share information and strategize jointly without forfeiting confidentiality.
Corporate Counsel | Expert Opinion
By Chris Audet | October 23, 2024
By 2026, Gartner predicts that 50% of office workers in global enterprises will be AI-augmented, either to increase productivity or to raise the quality of their work. In this article, Gartner experts have identified three major tech trends affecting legal professionals.
Corporate Counsel | Expert Opinion
By Bradford K. Newman | October 23, 2024
Once regarded as a vagary of a few socially conscious tech workers, employee activism has spread across industries in the form of "takeovers" of executive working spaces, public protests, social media campaigns, and public dissemination of confidential corporate information. Based on the failure of corporations to stop the leaking of confidential business data amid these campaigns, a new approach is needed.
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