Burns & Levinson’s Paul Mastrocola and Shepard Davidson describe how their experience as litigators informs and measures their practice as mediators.
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Crisis Management for Corporate Counsel
While not all crises cause significant legal liability, a company’s response can result in major business risks. Corporate counsel should help balance these business risks with legal risks to advise a company appropriately.
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Outside Counsel Guidelines Drive Positive Change
Many law departments, under pressure to control expenses, are wielding outside counsel guidelines as a key tool to control costs. According to Karoline Jackson and Shanna Davidson of Barnes & Thornburg, this is forcing law firms to rake positive steps of their own.
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Cut Costs, Mitigate Risk & Pump Up Revenue
The combo of e-signatures and AI makes this a propitious time to adopt a contract management solution, according to ContractWorks’ co-founder Albert Oaten. In this interview with CCBJ, he explains how law departments can help their companies save money, mitigate risk, and boost revenue through successful contract management.
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Globally Connected E-Discovery
Joe Skalski, director of consulting services for engagement management at FRONTEO, discusses the firm’s unique e-discovery capabilities in the Asia-Pacific region, from its technological skills to the importance of having boots on the ground.
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Go Beyond E-Billing for Greater Savings
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.
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Across the Contract Universe
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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