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Traditional insurance policies are well designed to cover slips, falls, and fires. But are these the greatest risks businesses face? Dependence on technology, networked computers and the Internet has redefined risk for many businesses. Networked computers hold financial data, sensitive customer information, trade secrets, and proprietary software systems and databases.

"At the start of 2008, we have once again surveyed the lawyers in Morrison & Foerster’s Global Sourcing Group in key markets in the United States, Europe, and Asia."

Escalating vendor cyber risk, tighter regulatory expectations, and fast-moving AI-driven threats are making traditional checkbox diligence insufficient for protecting organizational data. This episode explores how businesses can leverage system and organizational control framework reports to address critical gaps in vendor assessments and strengthen their cybersecurity posture.

When the world we live in runs on data, data entry is paramount. The business world has a growing need for efficient data entry solutions.

The worlds of outsourcing and U.S. financial regulation are beginning to coincide.

Every year, we survey Morrison & Foerster’s Global Sourcing Group lawyers around the world to create a snapshot of the current state of the global outsourcing market and to identify emerging trends that are likely to shape that market over the next 12 months.

The Paris Court of First Instance recently rendered two decisions in similar cases involving the non-profit organization Greenpeace and the petroleum industry company Esso (in the first case) and the nuclear industry company Areva (in the second case).

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (<I>Sarbanes-Oxley</I>) was enacted at a time of remarkable turmoil for corporate America.

Contains: H-1B Cap Reached; Employers May Have Other Options For Employing Foreign Nationals, J-1 Traineeship, New E-3 Visas For Specialty Workers For Friends Down Under, PERM Update, Travel Issues As Holidays Approach, Update On L-1 Processing, Immigration Legislation On The Horizon & Changes To Visa Waiver And US VISIT Programs.

Every year, we survey Morrison & Foerster’s Global Sourcing Group lawyers in Asia, Europe, and the United States to create a snapshot of the current state of the world’s outsourcing market and to identify emerging trends that are likely to shape that market over the next 12 months.

Some clarification to the U.S. – E.U. data protection impasse was made on February 1, 2006, when the European data protection authorities (the Article 29 Working Party2 ("WP29")) issued an Opinion3 setting out detailed guidelines on the establishment of whistleblowing procedures. The Opinion seeks to provide guidance to enable companies to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley obligations imposed on U.S. publicly traded companies in a manner consistent with E.U. privacy law. The Opinion, however, does not

With the February 17 deadline to introduce bills in the California Legislature having come and gone, now is a good opportunity to take stock of what the coming year portends...

Unlike his predecessor, Governor Schwarzenegger vetoed about 80% of the significant labor and employment law bills sent to him for signature. The key proposed labor and employment vetoed by the Governor included legislation bills designed to increase the minimum wage, provide additional job security to janitors and security guards, and create special rules regarding meal periods and rest breaks for specific industries.

Outsourcing particular business functions is not something new. In the late 1970’s and early 1980’s many companies "outsourced" many of their "back-office" functions to service bureaus that performed these services for many customers, thereby gaining economies of scale from their investment in what was then, and is still, expensive mainframe computer hardware and software systems.

Remote and hybrid work arrangements have fundamentally transformed immigration compliance requirements for employers sponsoring foreign national workers on H-1B, E-3, and H-1B1 visas.

Just in time for a break from the summer doldrums for the open source community, on July 27, 2006 the Free Software Foundation released the second discussion draft of GPL version 3 ("Draft 2").

Audits are becoming more common as many states have increased efforts to enforce their unclaimed property or escheat laws. Several states have substantially increased the number of auditors assigned to conduct unclaimed property audits and many states have hired third party "bounty hunters" to conduct audits on their behalf.

The business of law is evolving. Today, management services organizations (MSOs) for law firms are becoming an increasingly attractive tool to allow lawyers and law firms the ability to leverage outside investment...