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.
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Elevating the Role of Contracts Within the Enterprise
Eric Laughlin, CEO of Agiloft, talks about the evolution of contract lifecycle management, how the pandemic has heightened awareness of blind spots that many companies have around contracts, and why the most successful organizations think of their contracts as “relationship DNA.”
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Capture Pricing Data with the End in Mind
Barnes & Thornburg’s Jared Applegate discusses challenges and ideas for gathering and using data.
CCBJ: Both law firms and in-house law departments look to gain pricing certainty from a better understanding of data related to matters. What type of data should be focused upon?
Jared Applegate: From an in-house law department perspective and, frankly, from a law firm perspective, I think you always want to start with the end in mind. Ask these questions: At the end of the day, what business decisions will be driven by the capture and analysis of the data? Will that ultimately provide greater value/insights to my business unit leaders?
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Data Analytics Drive Value for Corporate Law Departments
Jeffrey Solomon of ELM Solutions explains how well-deployed data analytics can help in-house counsel better serve their companies by managing matters more strategically.
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