Greg Morical, vice president, general counsel and secretary of Calumet Specialty Products Partners, L.P., and Tabitha Meier, partner and co-chair of the compliance team at Barnes & Thornburg LLP, discuss the various ways outside counsel can help companies get their compliance programs up to snuff.Continue Reading Creating a Culture of Compliance
Rena Verma discusses trends in recent M&A activity and the growing assignment of Chief Transformation Officers to oversee the integration of various functional and operational units, along with the continued development of Integration Management Offices to ensure day-one readiness.
Continue Reading Integration Considerations for Achieving Strategic Objectives
Even after a small acquisition, IP diligence should never be overlooked.
Continue Reading Diligence Under Duress: IP Review Even When Time Is Short or the Budget Is Tight
At CLOC’s annual institute in Las Vegas in May, Mary O’Carroll, Director of Legal Ops at Google and CLOC President, laid out the organization’s priorities.
Continue Reading The Hard Makes Ops Great
With its recent acquisition of CLM Matrix, ELM Solutions can now satisfy an urgent request from clients, and the CLM Matrix team now has a platform to bring their message to a much larger audience.
Continue Reading Delivering Solutions for an Improved Legal Ops Workflow
Helen Geib, General Counsel and Practice Support Consultant with QDiscovery, provides seven tips for promoting higher functioning, collaborative teams that are more efficient and effective, and produce higher quality results.
Continue Reading 7 Steps to Building a Collaborative Team
In this interview with CCBJ, Lionel Schwirtz, Deputy CEO of Legal-Suite, explains how automated contract management solutions and artificial intelligence can reduce costs and boost operational efficiency.
Continue Reading How to Manage Contracts in the 21st Century
The message in the opening remarks was clear: Despite recent leadership changes – not to mention a certain amount of backstage drama – the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium is more committed than ever to their movement and taking it further faster.
Continue Reading AROUND THE CLOC: Highlights from the 2019 Vegas Institute
Mature corporate law departments use e-billing technology to manage outside counsel spend without sacrificing results. According to ELM Solutions’ director of legal operations and industry insights, Nathan Cemenska, however, e-billing can’t do everything. In a previous post to In-House Ops, he discussed other solutions that help meet these challenges. Here, he talks about what form that help can take.
Continue Reading Go Beyond E-Billing for Greater Savings
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 For This GC, Doing More With Less Drives Continuous Innovation