Deborah Festa, partner with Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, discusses the qualities that contribute to a great culture at a firm, including the crucial role of leadership. Also: Advice on what women can do to excel in traditionally male-dominated fields such as finance law.
Continue Reading Exceptional Firm Culture Starts at the Top
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
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?
Nicole Thompson of Onna advises legal departments to understand not only the tools being used across their organizations but also the types of data they are storing.
Jonah Paransky, executive vice president of Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions, discusses the ways that the role of general counsel has evolved in recent years to accommodate the growing emphasis on legal ops, and how new technology can help legal departments maximize their impact while minimizing costs.
Continue Reading As ELM Platforms Mature, Law Departments Gain Ground On Business Goals
Walmart’s Alan Bryan, recipient of the ACC Legal Ops Professional of the Year Award, discusses the evolution of his company’s legal operations and procurement functions.
Continue Reading Now in Aisle 3: A More Efficient Legal Department
LexisNexis’ Kris Satkunas looks at data-driven insights into legal departments’ billing and law firm consolidation activities.
CCBJ: The LexisNexis annual CounselLink report has become a useful benchmarking tool for legal departments. Tell us a little about its history and how it’s being used.
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