In June, the ACC’s 2018 Legal Operations Conference keynote in Chicago were four general counsel who shared their approaches to reducing costs through legal operations and demonstrating value to the business. As reported
[Read More]In its tenth year, the purpose of the Altman Weil “Law Firms in Transition Survey” remains the same: to track the shifting attitudes around the changing legal market. In the survey’s early years,
[Read More]A step-by-step visual guide to an important part of the legal process.
[Read More]As we’ve posted and written in the past, counsel has had to change to keep up with the changing legal industry. A recent report featured in Bloomberg identifies the specific ways that in-house
[Read More]A word of caution to executives who cc in-house counsel or forward emails to them: If the content does not pertain to obtaining legal device, the court may not consider the communication privileged.
[Read More]The recent 2016 NYSE Governance Services/BarkerGilmore Survey Report, “The Rise of the GC: from Legal Adviser to Strategic Adviser,” reflected the same points raised during LLM, Inc.’s budgeting and predictability webinar this past
[Read More]In the latest chapter of the VW scandal, which we first blogged about last year, a former Volkswagen Group employee is suing the company for wrongful termination and violation of Michigan whistleblower law.
[Read More]What happens when a company president ignores in-house counsel’s warnings by putting his hands over his ears (la, la, la!) and refuses to discuss the legality of a matter further? That president and
[Read More]According to the HBR Consulting 2015 Law Department Survey, total worldwide legal spend is up by two percent, and it’s due to an increase in spend on in-house counsel. Meanwhile there was a decrease
[Read More]On the rise, according to Ann Klee, General Electric’s VP of Global Operations — Environment, Health & Safety, are lawyers who charge $1,000 per hour. Per a Bloomberg report, Klee made this assertion
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