The role of the CLO as a critical business partner continues to expand, according to the Association of Corporate Counsel’s 2023 chief legal officers survey of 892 CLOs across 20 industries in 35 countries.
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In “My Take,” a feature from ACC Docket, Adrian Goss, GC of Bauer Media, Australia’s largest magazine and digital publisher and former National President of ACC Australia, discusses in-house collaboration in the post-COVID environment.
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In this piece from Corporate Counsel Business Journal, Liz Carter, Senior VP of dispute resolution provider JAMS, and Gina Miller, a VP overseeing JAMS’s resolution centers in 11 states and Canada, talk about the state of mediation and arbitration and the roles they play in keeping JAMS on top of its game.
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In this piece from Corporate Counsel Business Journal, two academics, Rick Burton, the David B. Falk Professor of Sport Management at Syracuse University, and Norm O’Reilly, dean of the Graduate School of Business at the University of Maine, discuss their book, Business the NHL Way: Lessons from the Fastest Game on Ice. Their goal, O’Reilly says, was to look at the National Hockey League and see what they could learn from a sport that’s had “unbridled business success” and share their insights with the broader business world. “One of the things that makes Norm and me interesting as academicians, and also as authors,” says Burton, “is that we’ve actually lived out in the business world that we write about. Norm is a partner in a thriving agency in Canada called T1, and I was the commissioner of a professional basketball league in Australia as well as the chief marketing officer of the US Olympic Committee for the Beijing Summer Olympics.” That’s why, they say, their work is akin to Moneyball, Michael Lewis’ bestsellers about data analytics and baseball, and allowed them to draw general business lesson from topics such as the permissive stance toward violence on the ice to the
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In this piece, HBR Consulting focuses on two sources, its 2022 Law Department Survey and its Sounding Board series, which reflects data from more than 200 corporations, to conclude that in-house law departments, which had been sanguine about increases in headcount, spending, and tech investment throughout 2022, are far less optimistic heading into the new year.
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In this piece from Corporate Counsel Business Journal, Dave Parks, VP of Marketing with Contract Logix, worries that the economic slowdown will hamper organizations already struggling to do more with less and optimize their investments in areas such as contract lifecycle management.
Continue Reading First, Ask These Questions About Contracts
In this piece from Bloomberg Law, Evisort’s Memme Onwudiwe and Credit Karma’s Tom Stephenson make the case that having a law degree is not – and should not be – a prerequisite for a legal operations job.
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In this piece from the Law Society Gazette of England and Wales, Mike McGlinchey, head of client consulting at Pinsent Masons Vario, Glasgow, discusses legal tech in a very practical way – when is tech the answer, when not – noting that the growth of tech is sprouting new problems.
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What’s the biggest threat to the future growth ambitions of top law firms?
Increased competition from international firms? No.
Attracting and retaining the best talent? No.
Remaining on top of compliance? No.
It’s cyber risk. As in – the accidental leakage of confidential data through email hijacks, phishing attacks and malware.
Continue Reading Law Firms Fail to Face Their Biggest Threat
As many worked from home, accelerated by the pandemic and technology, it has been particularly difficult to avoid a growing threat posed by employees who have utilized private E-message platforms to conduct company business.
Continue Reading What’s Up with WhatsApp? Out of Control Business Communications
Greg Negus is the chief operating officer at Cornerstone Research. In this interview, he shares innovations in big data, as well as how artificial intelligence and machine learning can be used to support expert testimony.
Continue Reading Data Science Center Tames Big Data Projects