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Patent Application Prosecution Timeline: What Startup Leaders Need to Know

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For startup founders and CTOs navigating the patent landscape, understanding the prosecution timeline is essential for strategic planning and resource allocation. After filing your patent application with the USPTO, the...more

BakerHostetler

In-House Legal Project Budgeting: The Best Time Was Yesterday; the Second-Best Time Is Today

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The NY ACEDS Metro Chapter, the ARMA New Jersey Chapter, and legal and governance professionals have recently presented (in ACEDS’ 2024 webinar and ARMA’s INFORM 2025 conference) on budget topics that are not new: determining...more

Dickinson Wright

2025 Patent Filing Costs Rise: USPTO Fee Update and Response Strategies

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In January 2025, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) implemented a broad set of fee increases and structural adjustments intended to address rising operational costs and encourage more efficient patent...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

AI Toolkit for Leaders: Use Cases, Benefits and Guardrails

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If 2023 was the year of, “What is AI?” and 2024 was the year of “Be afraid of AI,” then 2025 is the year of “If you aren’t using AI, you are already behind.” That was the message of Womble Bond Dickinson’s AI Toolkit for...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Innovation in Compliance: Strategic Compliance in Regulated Industries with Kerri Reuter

Innovation comes in many areas, and compliance professionals must be ready for and embrace it. Join Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance, as he visits with top innovative minds, thinkers, and creators in the award-winning...more

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Digital Transformation: Legal Teams As Catalysts for Business Value

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Legalweek 2025 Session Recap - While ‘Digital Transformation’ can mean many things to an organization, it’s clear that legal departments can play a large role in driving this change. This was the topic of focus at the...more

Vinson & Elkins LLP

Hilary Preston, Vice Chair at Vinson & Elkins, Discusses Energy Innovation: Protecting Your Intellectual Property Portfolio

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As energy reshapes industries and economies, the race for innovation—and the intellectual property behind it—has never been more competitive. Hilary Preston, Vice Chair at Vinson & Elkins unpacks the high-stakes...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Q&A With Anne Paape, Managing Director and Senior Fiduciary Counsel at Cresset

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The Spotlight had the pleasure of sitting down with Anne Paape, managing director and senior fiduciary counsel at Cresset and Cresset Trust Company, to talk about the historic transfer of wealth many countries are undergoing,...more

Benesch

Key Takeaways from the AI Strategy Summit: Developing a Comprehensive Corporate AI Policy

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At the recent AI Strategy Summit in New York, Benesch Partner Aslam Rawoof joined a distinguished panel to discuss the legal, ethical and compliance considerations surrounding corporate AI policy. Alongside panelists...more

BCLP

NLRB Regional Director Determines Dartmouth Basketball Players Are Employees

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In a much-anticipated decision issued on Monday, February 5, 2024, Region 01 of the National Labor Relations Board (the “NLRB”) decided that the players on the Dartmouth College men’s basketball team qualify as employees...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

ESG Insights: 10 Things That Should Be Top of Mind 2024

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Amid new regulations, increased enforcement and litigation, and higher stakeholder scrutiny, companies will need to adopt an integrated and nuanced approach to ESG. In some ways, 2023 was a challenging year for ESG. This...more

K&L Gates LLP

Client Conversations With Craig Budner: Interview With Casey Kaplan, Head of Global Compliance at Nike

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Casey Kaplan, a K&L Gates alum, is the head of compliance at Nike where he currently serves as the senior legal director of global ethics and compliance. In this episode of Client Conversations With Craig Budner, Casey and...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

In the Room Where It Happens: A Conversation with Deirdre Stanley, Executive Vice President and General Counsel of The Estée...

In this episode of “Real Talk,” the hosts talk with Deirdre Stanley, Executive Vice President and General Counsel of The Estée Lauder Companies, about her career: how she decided to go in-house, her role in the merger between...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

EEOC Adopts 2022-2026 Strategic Plan With an Emphasis on Large-Scale Litigation, Improving Internal EEOC Processes

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Seyfarth Synopsis: On August 22, 2023, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission officially adopted its new Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years 2022-2026. The Strategic Plan outlines the Commission’s major goals and objectives...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

2023 Global Data Privacy Law Survey Report

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2023 is shaping up to be a landmark year for data privacy, on both sides of the Atlantic. In the US, four new state laws go into effect – two on July 1 – while California is expanding its already robust requirements, and...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

What To Expect From the IRS’ $80 Billion Strategic Operating Plan

In August 2022, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was signed into law, allocating approximately $80 billion to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) over the next decade to improve the way it serves the public....more

Womble Bond Dickinson

A GC's Guide To Litigation, Inspired By Sun Tzu's 'Art Of War'

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Litigation caseload — and spending — is going up, with 2023 seeing a 10% increase over a record-breaking 2022, according to BTI Consulting's Litigation Outlook 2023, which found that 90% of clients were expecting to maintain...more

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The Future Of The EEOC: The Commission Releases A Draft Of Its Bold 2022-2026 Strategic Plan

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Seyfarth Synopsis: On Friday, November 4, the EEOC released its draft 2022-2026 Strategic Plan (available here)—a blueprint of its proposed enforcement plan for the upcoming years. The Plan focuses on strategic objectives...more

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So Many Words - The FTC’s Recent Strategic Planning Reports Do Actually Matter

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​​​​​​​Because I’m someone who is inherently suspicious, my antennae perked up the other Friday when the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released its annual strategic planning documents. Friday releases in the summer always...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Several UK Government National Security Interventions Confirm Heightened Deal Risk for UK Investments

Last week saw the first publicly disclosed uses by the UK Government of its new and expansive powers to investigate deals on national security grounds under the National Security and Investment Act (“NSIA”), which came into...more

Robinson+Cole Environmental Law +

EPA’s Draft Strategic Plan Emphasizes Environmental Justice

On October 1, 2021, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its new Draft Strategic Plan for 2022 through 2026 (Strategic Plan). EPA is required to develop the Strategic Plan to communicate EPA’s priorities...more

Mitratech Holdings, Inc

[Virtual Conference] Interact EMEA 2021: Expect Success: New Solutions for the New Normal - May 19th - 20th, 11:00 am - 5:00 pm...

Join Mitratech Interact EMEA 2021 Join a virtual gathering of the world’s foremost community of risk mitigation and operational excellence professionals, all dedicated to digital transformation of corporate legal operations...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Elements of Right-Sized Privacy Program: Appropriately Addresses Third Parties

To round out this series on right-sizing a privacy program, our last stop is thinking about the impact of working with third parties. There are many legal requirements to assess and/or to address in third party contracts when...more

JD Supra Perspectives

General Counsel Discuss: Moving from a Global Pandemic to Inspiring Innovation

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Julie Savarino recaps key points made by GC panelists at last year's excellent CLOC Global Summit. ...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

New ALI Project on Corporate Governance

The American Law Institute (ALI) approved a new project last month – Restatement of the Law, Corporate Governance. Over 25 years ago, the ALI approved and published the Principles of Law, Corporate Governance and this new...more

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