Navigating the business impact of South Korea’s Serious Accidents Punishment Act

Introduction of the Act

South Korea’s Serious Accidents Punishment Act (SAPA or the Act), enacted on 27 January 2022, has substantially impacted the country’s legal landscape. Primarily aimed at preventing grave accidents, ensuring accountability, and protecting the lives and well-being of citizens and workers, SAPA introduced significant legal consequences for businesses. The Act places a heightened level of responsibility on business owners, management executives, and corporations to ensure safety in operations and facilities that may pose risks to human health. This elevated accountability applies particularly when these entities fail to adhere to safety measures, leading to human casualties.
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Compliance alert: employers in Puerto Rico failing to implement required workplace protocols and facing the consequences

As most employers doing business in Puerto Rico are aware, employment is a highly legislated field in this jurisdiction. All employers are required to have in place a vast array of policies and procedures, and to comply with countless laws and regulations governing everything from the initial recruitment process to post-termination issues. However, it has recently become apparent that some employers, both big and small, are overlooking three critical requirements to be in compliance with local law. To wit, employers are failing to create and implement protocols for the management of domestic violence in the workplace, workplace harassment (‘mobbing’), and sexual harassment in the workplace.
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Balancing duties in litigation

Litigators’ duties

It is well-known that lawyers have duties to their clients: a lawyer must seek to follow their client’s instructions and act in their best interests. In a dispute, that means presenting the client’s case in a compelling way and pursuing the strategy most likely to result in a positive outcome. But the duty to act in the client’s best interests is just one of several duties which lawyers face and which they must strive to balance when conducting disputes. Continue reading “Balancing duties in litigation”

Future lawyer – free yourself to look forward

In Managed Legal Services, we talk about delivering value to in-house teams through right-sourcing. This means getting the work done by the right resource, at the right time at a price point that doesn’t make your eyes water. The overall alternative legal services market is growing by at least 20% compound year on year, according to Thomson Reuters, so the model must get something right. Continue reading “Future lawyer – free yourself to look forward”

How GCs can manage the opportunities and risks of the Unified Patent Court

The unprecedented global events of the past three years and growing importance of advanced technologies, such as artificial intelligence, have highlighted the role of innovative solutions in addressing new challenges. These events, including the Covid-19 pandemic and green transition, as well as the present economic slowdown, have led businesses to evaluate risk management strategies and exploit every opportunity to maximise revenue and reduce costs. Continue reading “How GCs can manage the opportunities and risks of the Unified Patent Court”

Reputation in the digital age

Individuals often only learn the true value of their reputation when it is attacked; for businesses, reputation has never left the agenda. It shores up a customer base, is a prerequisite for growth, and feeds into the bottom line as goodwill. But many businesses, and individuals, are struggling to navigate the protean landscape of threats to reputation in the digital age. Continue reading “Reputation in the digital age”

The impact of criminal matters on business

In this text, we would like to present the main trends related to criminal law issues in daily business practice. In our day-to-day practice, we mainly handle white-collar crime cases. We provide legal services at all stages of the proceedings for clients both as attorneys of injured parties, and as defence counsels. Usually we deal with cases involving economic crimes such as fraud, embezzlement, offences of a corruption nature, acting to the detriment of the company, money laundering, etc. Continue reading “The impact of criminal matters on business”