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In-house Advisor weekly highlights—12 May 2022

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Published on: 12 May 2022

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Table of contents

In-house resources, events and networking
Networking and forum events
Crafty Counsel videos available in Lexis®PSL
Risk & Compliance
Sanctions and the Ukraine conflict
Queen’s Speech 2022—digital, culture, media and sports
Queen’s Speech 2022—home affairs and justice
Austrian DPA rejects risk-based approach to international transfers under SCCs
EHRC publishes statement on long COVID, disability and Equality Act
General counsels say cost of internal investigations is growing

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Article summary

Welcome to this week’s edition of the In-house weekly highlights, a curated summary of news analysis and new content from across the legal landscape. These highlights focus on key risk & compliance, commercial, corporate, information law and employment developments that will be relevant to most in-house lawyers.

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