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
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the German carmaker, says the depiction of legal departments as bottlenecks holding back the rest of the business is an outdated cliché.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
Robin Snasdell, managing director at Consilio, discusses the concept of “new law,” how technology is transforming various legal processes, and where improvements can still be made in the future.
The light at the end of the pandemic tunnel may just be a freight train barreling right for the legal profession, according to a massive survey of global general counsel.
Continue Reading Averting Apocalypse – NOW!
KPMG continued to position itself as a go-to resource for corporate law departments with an alliance aimed at a major challenge in-house counsel face: managing contract portfolios. KPMG’s partnership with Seattle-based CLM company SirionLabs harnesses AI-driven extraction to more quickly transform unstructured contract data into meaningful information.
Continue Reading KPMG Allies with Contract Management AI Firm
According to a report from TheCorporateCounsel.net, the careers of many directors may leave them with a problematic skills gap in light of the surge in momentum for ESG.
Continue Reading Boards May Have ESG Skills Gap
Chad Main hosts “Technically Legal,” a podcast about the impact of legal tech and innovation on law and the legal industry. A former litigator in LA and Chicago, Chad is the founder of Percipient, a tech-enabled alternative legal services provider.
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That’s the question at the heart of the 2021 Report on the State of the Legal Market from the Center on Ethics and the Legal Profession at the Georgetown University Law Center and Thomson Reuters Institute, with supporting data from Acritas and Peer Monitor.
Continue Reading Has the Legal Market Reached a Tipping Point?
Keith Maziarek, director of pricing and legal project management at Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, and Justin Ergler, director of alternative fee intelligence and analytics at GlaxoSmithKline, discuss the evolving nature of legal operations and management, the new face of negotiations between law firms and corporate clients, and the collaborative nature of their jobs.
Continue Reading Optimizing the Business of Law