Ryan Drimalla, managing director at FTI Consulting, discusses the importance of process-driven contract lifecycle management, including ways technology can make corporations more efficient in this area.
Continue Reading
Follow the Money? In Forensic Investigations, Follow the Data First
According to the experts at AlixPartners, the tools needed to conduct the forensic investigations of tomorrow are very much available today.
Continue Reading
For This GC, Doing More With Less Drives Continuous Innovation
Mark Smolik, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of DHL Supply Chain Americas, assesses the ongoing expansion of in-house legal departments, including how they fit into a business’s overall structure, today and in the future.
Continue Reading
E-Discovery Software Boosts Defensibility of In-House Processes
When the challenge is time, the key is to optimize the tasks the team is already doing. Software that works for you, not against you, can do just that.
Continue Reading
Venture Beyond Legal in Tracking In-House Data
Work within the law department goes way beyond strictly legal matters. According to Aaron Pierce of CounselLink, information related to that work can be invaluable in optimizing your team’s performance. In this interview with CCBJ, Pierce, an industry veteran, provides insights on how to broaden data capture and analysis to improve performance.
Continue Reading
Delegating Routine Tasks to AI
For ContractWorks co-founder Albert Oaten, AI is not an abstract future; it is the concrete means to help law departments save money, save time and mitigate risk – right now.
Continue Reading
E-Billing Is No Panacea for Law Departments
Nathan Cemenska, director of legal operations and industry insights at Wolters Kluwer’s ELM Solutions, says that complex billing guidelines coupled with the mounting workloads of in-house professionals erodes the effectiveness of e-billing solutions. Here, he provides some useful advice on maximizing e-billing ROI without dumping more work on law departments already slammed with too much to do.
Continue Reading
Making In-House Mentorship More Accessible
MOSAIC founders Claire Debney and Emma Sharpe, and ACC’s associate vice president for leadership development Tori Payne discuss the importance of mentorship for in-house counsel, and how the MOSAIC program is making it easier than ever to find a mentor – or become one.
Continue Reading
Not If But When: Pulling E-Discovery In-House
Zapproved co-founder and CEO Monica Enand discusses the strategies and tactics that in-house law departments can use to transform their litigation response from a reactive situation into a routine business process.
Continue Reading
FT Shines a Light on In-House Innovators
The annual FT Innovative Lawyers competition is the brainchild of Reena SenGupta of RSG Consulting. In 2005, the London-based journalist hit on the idea of ranking law firms based on their innovations and partnering with FT on spreading the word.
Continue Reading
Communication from the Eye of the Storm
Perkins Coie’s Toby Brown discusses the importance of trust and communication in maintaining positive relationships between in-house and outside counsel.
Continue Reading