Lex Mundi Special Projects
Lex Mundi Best Practices>>
Lex Mundi has developed a series of Best Practices that are the result of collaboration among Lex Mundi’s member firm lawyers, leading corporate counsel, members of the Lex Mundi Client Advisory Council, legal management/marketing consultants, academics, and other legal professionals.
Guides to Doing Business>>
The Guides to Doing Business are prepared by Lex Mundi’s member firms and provide detailed information about each jurisdiction’s infrastructure. The guides can serve as a useful resource tool when planning an international business strategy or researching a new business market. **More than 130 guides are available.
IP World Desk Reference>>
Updated by members of the Lex Mundi Intellectual Property Practice Group, the second edition of the Aspen Publishers’ Intellectual Property World Desk Reference: A Guide to Practice by Country, State, and Province is a one-of-a-kind quick desk reference that provides a complete overview of available protection in all IP categories in more than 80 countries of the world!
Lex Mundi Publications and Resources
Lex Mundi Multi-Jurisdictional Surveys>>
The Lex Mundi Multi-Jurisdictional Surveys are prepared by the Lex Mundi Practice Groups and provide valuable information from member firm lawyers located in jurisdictions around the world. Each survey covers one practice area and a particular legal topic of interest to lawyers today. The following is a list of all the Lex Mundi multi-jurisdictional surveys available to view in their entirety or by individual jurisdiction:
■ Requirements to Sell, Manufacture or Commercialize Transgenics, Insecticides, Pesticides, Herbicides and Rodenticides Survey — NEW!
■ Pre-Merger Notification Survey
■ Bank Finance and Regulation Survey
■ Security Over Collateral Survey — NEW!
■ Criminal Liability of Companies Survey
■ The European Company
■ Intellectual Property and Competition Law Survey
■ Trends for Commercializing Intellectual Property Survey
■ European Union: Accession States Tax Guide
■ Labor and Employment Desk Book
■ In-House Counsel and the Attorney-Client Privilege Survey
■ A Guide to North American Arbitrators and Mediators — NEW!
■ Real Estate Survey I - Issues Relating to Foreign Investment
■ Real Estate Survey II - Issues in Ownership of Real Property
■ Real Estate Survey III - Issues Relating to Finance
■ Real Estate Survey IV - Issues Relating to Commercial Leasing — NEW!
■ Telecommunications Regulation Survey
Lex Mundi and Professionalism: A Statement of Shared Fundamental Values>>
Professionalism is a distinctive set of fundamental values that shape the practices of the best law firms and lawyers around the world, including Lex Mundi member firms. Because these values are, however, abstract and sometimes difficult to express, Lex Mundi has undertaken an effort to develop a practical understanding of the guiding principles that law firms of significant prominence aspire to embody. This Statement of Shared Fundamental Values was developed by Lex Mundi to assist and encourage its member firms, as well as all firms that practice at the highest level, as they strive to embody these values in their practices.
Lex Mundi/InsideCounsel Special Resource Sections>>
Since 2004, Lex Mundi and its member firms have produced special resource sections for InsideCounsel Magazine. Each section focuses on a specific geographic region and discusses an important legal topic of interest in regards to a particular area of practice. **Featured Resource Section: "The U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act" (November 2009)— Eight Lex Mundi member firms representing jurisdictions around the globe submitted overviews that address the potential conflicts with the FCPA and how In-house Counsel can navigate local anti-corruption laws in each jurisdiction.
PLC "Doing Business In...Handbook"
The “Doing Business in…Handbook” is a Lex Mundi and Practical Law Company (PLC) co-branded publication. The handbook contains jurisdictional overviews written exclusively by Lex Mundi member firms and provides a country-by-country overview about the legal system and key laws for in-house counsel as well as other lawyers and professionals around the world. **The 2009 handbook contains 88 jurisdictional overviews written by more than 80 Lex Mundi member firms around the world.
If you have any questions about the 2009 PLC Doing Business in…Handbook, please contact Kristin Turnak at Tel: 1.713.335.0122.
Other Publications and Resources
World Bank Doing Business Report
Lex Mundi’s member firms have once again contributed information on corporate governance for the “Protecting Investors” chapter of Doing Business 2009, a co-publication of The World Bank and the International Finance Corporation. The 2009 publication is the sixth in a series of annual reports investigating the regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. The report also measures regulations that affect the 10 stages of a business’s life cycle. To order a copy of the 2009 report, please visit the Doing Business website.
Courts: The Lex Mundi Project>>
A 2001 comparative litigation study undertaken by the World Bank and Harvard, involving the Lex Mundi member firms.
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