In this piece from Ross Booher and Tim Haley of Latitude, which provides talent to law firms and legal departments for interim roles such as secondments, despite the generally favorable view of secondments, the reality often is quite different.
Continue Reading The Secondment Trap: A Costly Approach to Free Labor
Joseph Polizzotto, senior vice president, strategy & client services, and Danielle Noonan, associate vice president, legal solutions, with QuisLex, explore how developing deeper, more mature relationships with ALSPs allow in-house legal teams to build a “centralized hub of standard controls, processes and institutional knowledge that provide a beacon of consistency and stability over long periods of time and across all departments of an organization.”
Continue Reading ALSPs Can Calm the Churning E-Discovery Sea
Daniel Lynch and Matthew Kapinos, partners with Akin Gump, have extensive experience in the renewable energy space, ranging from regulatory law to infrastructure. Here, they discuss what the future of this rapidly evolving industry holds.
Continue Reading An Exciting New Era for Energy
“We all know about, and many of us have experienced, burnout,” begins a piece on Above the Law by Jill Switzer, a lawyer and longtime bar member in California. “It’s on the rise this year, and not unexpectedly, due to what’s happened over the past 16 months.”
Continue Reading Burned or Bored Out? A Distinction with a Difference
Using biometrics may increase efficiency, but companies that do so should also be careful to avoid – and insure against – liability.
Continue Reading Managing Risk of Liability Stemming from Biometric Tech and Privacy Laws
Zoee Bradley, a pharma GC and compliance officer, provides some good advice for building your GC presence. Among her strategies are some old chestnuts, such as being your authentic self and investing in your development. But a few others are less shopworn and potentially impactful, including a smart take on the GC as “safe refuge.” “Confidentiality and privilege are the cornerstones of any lawyer’s practice, but an impactful GC does more than maintaining confidentiality and privilege,” she writes. “They act as a safe refuge for all within the company, especially their leadership team.” At the same time, it takes care and work to establish such a safe space. “By setting clear boundaries and expectations, and strictly maintaining confidence, you will position yourself as a trusted GC,” she writes. “They will know not only to call on you when the crisis happens, but when they see a crisis form.” Check out the latest edition of ACC Docket here.
Continue Reading 5 Strategies to Build Value and Influence as a GC
Best practices for financial and competition regulators around the world.
Continue Reading Get Ready for the Investigators
This piece from FT confronts head-on the well-worn notion that law departments slow down business progress. Thomas Laubert, group general counsel of Daimler, the German carmaker, says the depiction of legal departments as bottlenecks holding back the rest of the business is an outdated cliché. “In-house counsel is the one that is [pushing] and has to push digital innovation,” he told FT. While it is still common for business heads to complain that a project or contract has been “stuck in legal,” many general counsel believe this notion of in-house teams always blocking progress is unfair.
Continue Reading Stuck in Legal? No Way
CCBJ sat down with Mike Haven, recently introduced CEO of CLOC, the leading membership organization for legal operations professionals. In this interview, Mr. Haven discusses the future and culture of thIs highly influential organization.
Continue Reading New CLOC President: Make Way for Version 3.0
In this piece from inhouseblog.com, Valerie Fontaine, a legal search consultant based in Los Angeles, looks at the key attributes of “ideal” candidates for in-house roles, and how those can be starkly different from what law firms require.
Continue Reading The Ideal In-House Candidate: Generalist & Juggler
Ken Crutchfield, vice president and general manager of Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S., talks about the shifting role of the legal department, the importance of tailoring your conversations to your audience, and how general counsel can use metrics and key performance indicators to help a company meet its business goals.
Continue Reading Redefining In-House Counsel As a Driver of Value