Reinier advises national and international companies
reinier.russell@russell.nl +31 20 301 55 55On 20 September 2018, members of the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) visited Russell Advocaten in Amsterdam for a seminar on international contracting. The meeting was a great success and attended by Counsels of many different companies.
Paul Russell (senior partner at Russell Advocaten and former member of the Dutch Senate) opened the interactive seminar and introduced Prof. Dr. Eckart Brödermann (Brödermann Jahn, Germany; Hamburg University). Thanks to his great enthusiasm and the clear examples he gave, Brödermann was able to point out the benefits of the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts. Applying these universal principles to an international contract can prevent in advance that one of the contracting parties will be at a disadvantage because the law of the country of the other contracting party is applied.
The second lecture was about Social Media in the workplace. It was presented by Martijn Aardema (previously Vice-President, Legal, Service Now, Amsterdam), Reinier Russell (managing partner at Russell Advocaten) and Jan Dop (partner at Russell Advocaten). They stressed the significance of clear arrangements on the use of social media and the inclusion of these arrangements in employment contracts, employee handbooks and termination agreements. What kind of social media posts on the job, company and colleagues are acceptable? Do business contacts have to be removed from social media upon the termination of employment?
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On 19 September, a large number of corporate counsels visited Russell Advocaten for the seminar “Latest Developments in International Commercial Litigation”. The seminar was organised by Russell Advocaten in cooperation with the international lawyers’ network Primerus and ACC Europe.
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