International Corporate Practice provides guidance on building a comprehensive global legal department, including advice on structuring, staffing, and budgeting, as well as the use of foreign legal consultants and outsourcing. It also includes helpful case studies, checklists, and sample documents.

This release features new material designed to enable lawyers, whether in-house or outside counsel, to operate efficiently on the global stage. Topics discussed include the following:

• International attorney-client privilege: New sections discuss the privilege in Bulgaria (§ 2:2.4), India (§ 2:2.12), and Ireland (§ 2:2.13).
• Outsourcing and e-discovery: A discussion of the impact of using predictive coding and artificial intelligence in reviewing electronically stored information is included in § 5:1.6.
• International corporate compliance: Revisions to chapter 6 take note of three actions that the Department of Justice took in 2021 to strengthen its response to corporate crime (see § 6:4).
• International litigation and discovery: Chapter 10 has been updated with a discussion of obtaining discovery in the United States for use in a foreign tribunal under 28 U.S.C. § 1782 (see § 10:7.1).
• International labor and employment law: The updates in Chapter 21 include analysis of the EU Whistleblower Protection Directive, which sets minimum standards for protections that EU Member States must provide to whistleblowers (see § 21:4.7).
• Data protection and privacy: A completely revised and reorganizedChapter 24 focuses on the EU General Data Privacy Regulation, which has set the standard for global data protection.
• The Index has also been updated for this release.

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