Cloud computing raises myriad legal concerns, as I wrote earlier this year in Corporate Counsel.
As corporations have realized quantifiable cost savings, LSO has become a best practice among corporate counsel.
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The economic recession of 2007-2009 forced corporate counsel to innovate their procurement of services and reevaluate why they were procuring them.
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For 140 years Martindale-Hubbell has helped attorneys find one another, especially aiding in-house corporate counsel in locating the right outside law firms or sole practitioners.
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When the typical workplace practice is not to monitor, employees should be able to depend on that policy and not on the fine print a cautious corporate counsel inserts in the employee handbook.
The Obama administration quietly revived it last year, Lotito told me, eventually drawing 6, 000 comments including critical evaluations by the American Bar Association, the National Association of Manufacturers and the Association of Corporate Counsel.
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The joint study, conducted by the Minority Corporate Counsel Association, the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession, and the Project for Attorney Retention, surveyed 700 female lawyer at regional and international law firms.
Top lawyers for dozens of companies will discuss and digest the lessons of the crisis when they gather in London in March for the European Corporate Counsel Forum, an event hosted by the Maryland-based Consero Group.
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United States leaves in place a controversial en banc decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit that drastically undermines the important work-product privilege on which corporate counsel have long relied when representing their clients.
Yet corporate counsel must now view LSO as a strategic value proposition the benefits of which inure not only to the Legal Department, but to the company as a whole by putting the right people in the right place doing the right thing both (i) internally and (ii) with outside counsel and LSO providers.
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When faced with a hack attack, no corporate general counsel would ever authorize his company to employ cyber ninjas to hack back at the hackers out of concern for legal liabilities.
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The two primary reasons for miscommunications between counsel and client are the concept of legal relevance and corporate decisions to keep trial counsel in the dark about settlement strategy.
Microsoft is singing another tune, and is going to "seek relief from the trial court, and if necessary appeal, " according to Tom Burt, corporate VP and deputy general counsel.
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In a big litigation matter or regulatory review, the work is subject to sudden and dramatic peaks that corporate legal departments and their external counsel may not be able to handle.
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News Corp demonstrates the importance of the role of the General Counsel in ensuring strong corporate governance and sound business practices from the top down, and when necessary, guiding the company through times of crisis.
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Given the potential strategic benefits that stem from patent reexamination, Itri considers it wise to institute corporate processes with the advice of outside counsel in order to determine whether patent reexamination is appropriate.
And a law firm seeking to be lead counsel in connection with the latest corporate scandal is in a race against time.
Stubo is referring to her own role on the executive team, as well as those of her colleagues Sara Clemens (Vice President, Corporate Development), Erika Rottenberg (Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary) and Pat Wadors (Vice President, Global Talent Organization).
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James Doty is a former SEC General Counsel (1990-1992) who works for premier corporate defender, Baker Botts.
So I reached out to my friend John DeGroote of Settlement Perspectives, a former in-house counsel and Chief Legal Officer who knew far more about corporate interests than I ever would.
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Additionally, social entrepreneurs who are cash-strapped may not always prioritize hiring legal counsel to help them navigate important issues like choosing the appropriate corporate structure to account for both short- and long-term goals and securing intellectual property rights.
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The non-technical person might be our general counsel, or our head of HR, or our head of corporate communications.
In the matter under discussion, it will be somewhat misguided for legal counsel to argue facilely in defense of their U.S.corporate clients that the Shariah authorities were employed strictly to issue legal rulings on financial matters and all other rulings fall outside the scope of their employment.
Sony created a new position a corporate executive in charge of global-information security and privacy and promoted Nicole Seligman, who as general counsel had been targeted by hackers, to president of the Sony Corporation of America.
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