Document & Checklist Resources Pool

About the Resources Pool

The In-House Legal & Compliance Document Resources Pool is intended as a source of free and useful documents for in-house counsel and those whose role has a compliance management aspect.

If you have 'non-confidential' documents that you believe would be of service to the wider In-House Community, be they:

• compliance checklists;
• document templates; or
• other tools specific to in-house legal and compliance;

then please do send them to us at compliance AT pbpress.com, and, if suitable, we will make them available here, credited if necessary.


Note: Documents should be in either Microsoft Office or PDF format and no larger that 3.5MB).

Disclaimer: Whilst Pacific Business Press and the In-House Community will attempt to ensure these documents are useful, we take no responsibility for their content, accuracy or suitability for the use you wish to put them to.

With many thanks to those who have started contributions to the pool.

In due course, and as the pool grows documents will be archived by topic and/or jurisdiction. In the meantime, please find files listed alphabetically.

Audit – Due Dilligence Checklist
This open source document provides a due dilligence checklist for the purposes of a company audit. Download PDF here

Expanded 30(b)(6) Deposition Outline - Custodian of Electronic Records –
This document, provided by Navigant Consulting, serves as an effective checklist and guideline for the electronic Discovery requirements for legal proceedings. Download PDF here

ISO27K Toolkit
The ISO27k Toolkit (courtesy of the ISO27k Forum – ISO27001security.com) provides a suite of sample/template documents and guidance to help get your ISMS implementation off to a flying start (Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 license). Download ZIP file here

The Sarbanes-Oxley 404 Checklist
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires proper internal controls and procedures to ensure correct financial reporting of public companies. This interactive Excel spread sheet from Softax (© Softrax) www.softrax.com helps ascertain whether revenue is being managed correctly throughout the entire revenue cycle and what processes and checks and balances you have in place to ensure proper revenue reporting, Download Excel file here

In-House Community Congresses & Events

Now in their 12th year, the In-House Congress circuit are the events for the In-House Community along the New Silk Route.
To find out more, click on the link below.
To register for any immediately upcoming events, click on a link below:

IN-HOUSE CONGRESS SINGAPORE 2010

IN-HOUSE CONGRESS HONG KONG 2010

Novacourses Online Learning

A selection of the free and CPD acredited courses available at www.novacourses.com
> Course 1
Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights in the PRC
click here

> Course 2
Computer Forensics For Legal Professionals
click here