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Are you considering finance and accounting outsourcing? Did you already offload a portion of your work to an outsourced professional? Whether you are in the process of transitioning certain roles...

On January 10, 2014, Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law the New York Commercial Goods Transportation Industry Fair Play Act (S5867-2013; A5237b).

On September 9, 2004, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Judge Vaughn Walker, issued its much anticipated opinion in the Department of Justice’s ("DOJ"), case against Oracle Corp.’s ("Oracle") attempted acquisition of PeopleSoft, Inc. ("PeopleSoft").

On January 10, 2014, Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed into law the New York Commercial Goods Transportation Industry Fair Play Act (S5867-2013; A5237b).

Hedge funds face a complex set of legal and quasi-legal requirements that have significant impact on their operations, despite the conventional wisdom that they operate in a relatively “unregulated” environment.

Each week, Crowell & Moring's State Attorneys General team highlights significant actions that State AGs have taken. See our State Attorneys General page for more insights. Here are last week's updates.

Law firms across the U.S. are changing how they hire. In-house hiring is costly and slow. Legal talent is harder to find, and attorneys are overloaded with administrative work. To solve this, many law firms turn to outsourcing or remote staffing.

MiFID (the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive) is intended to promote a single EU market for wholesale and retail transactions in financial instruments. It is considered one of the most wide-ranging and important pieces of financial services legislation introduced in Europe over recent years.

Are you considering outsourced accounting for your manufacturing business? For many growing businesses, it can be hard to determine when it's time to outsource...

In 2012, employers saw the new independent contractor misclassification law go into effect—California Labor Code Section 226.8.

Switching from one outsourcing supplier to another involves the effort and risk of both terminating and entering into an outsourcing engagement. This article highlights some of the key issues for a customer in deciding whether to switch suppliers, in preparing to switch suppliers, and in making the transition from the incumbent supplier to the new supplier.

For global mobility teams, work involving foreign nationals can create confusion and may trigger compliance risk. As cross‑border and digital work arrangements expand, some employers assume that working remotely...

Many companies have experienced layoffs over the past few years, and the worst of the bad times may be over. Still, as every human resource professional knows, corporate reorganizations, including outsourcing, mergers, and acquisitions, continue apace. Whether emanating from sourcing, a merger, an acquisition, or simply due to a corporate restructure or cost-cutting measure – or any combination thereof – the elimination of positions and resulting separation of employees means the same thing from

As a demonstration of the butterfly effect of chaos theory, changes made to U.S. law after the 9/11 terror attacks are now being raised as blockages on the competitiveness of U.S.-based outsourcing and IT services companies when competing for business in Europe and Asia.

At the start of 2006, we have once again informally surveyed the views of the partners in Morrison & Foerster’s Global Sourcing Group based in Europe, the United States and Asia. This update collates Morrison & Foerster’s experience of a wide range of sourcing projects in a number of geographic and sectoral markets, comments on the state of those markets and suggests some trends to look out for in 2006.

Our economic activities, our social lives, and even our physical safety increasingly depend on computers and other devices linked together through the Internet. Protecting those systems and the information they contain has thus become a national imperative.

This survey was jointly conducted by IACCM (International Association of Contract & Commercial Managers) and Argea to measure outsourcing competence. A total of 95 international corporations provided their inputs to the survey. Survey results indicated that most respondents rely on organizational learning over time. While the majority does turn to external resources for help with structuring contracts, those resources often compound the problems due to poor contract setup and inadequate monitori