In the summer of 2017, ALM and a major American law firm launched what was described as the inaugural “General Counsel Up-At-Night” report. That report listed five major areas of concern for general counsel. The areas of focus for the general counsel who participated in the A Little Advance Notice on Employment Issues That Will Be Faced by General Counsel in 2018 By Sheryl J. Willert survey results included privacy and data security, risk and crisis management, regulations and enforcement, and litigation and intellectual property. The report contained some telling information about the employment related matters that might be areas of concern for general counsel in the coming year. The first of these significant factors is that, in the area of regulations, general counsel are extremely concerned about the existence of so many different regulatory schemes addressing the same subject matter in different jurisdictions. The second significant factor was that 59 percent of those surveyed were concerned about litigation in the employment arena. Because of these factors, it is important to alert general counsel about the issues that practitioners in employment related fields are seeing as areas of concern for general counsel and corporate America.
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