The role of the CLO as a critical business partner continues to expand, according to the Association of Corporate Counsel’s 2023 chief legal officers survey of 892 CLOs across 20 industries in 35 countries.
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In “My Take,” a feature from ACC Docket, Adrian Goss, GC of Bauer Media, Australia’s largest magazine and digital publisher and former National President of ACC Australia, discusses in-house collaboration in the post-COVID environment.
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In this piece from Corporate Counsel Business Journal, two academics, Rick Burton, the David B. Falk Professor of Sport Management at Syracuse University, and Norm O’Reilly, dean of the Graduate School of Business at the University of Maine, discuss their book, Business the NHL Way: Lessons from the Fastest Game on Ice. Their goal, O’Reilly says, was to look at the National Hockey League and see what they could learn from a sport that’s had “unbridled business success” and share their insights with the broader business world. “One of the things that makes Norm and me interesting as academicians, and also as authors,” says Burton, “is that we’ve actually lived out in the business world that we write about. Norm is a partner in a thriving agency in Canada called T1, and I was the commissioner of a professional basketball league in Australia as well as the chief marketing officer of the US Olympic Committee for the Beijing Summer Olympics.” That’s why, they say, their work is akin to Moneyball, Michael Lewis’ bestsellers about data analytics and baseball, and allowed them to draw general business lesson from topics such as the permissive stance toward violence on the ice to the
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In this piece, HBR Consulting focuses on two sources, its 2022 Law Department Survey and its Sounding Board series, which reflects data from more than 200 corporations, to conclude that in-house law departments, which had been sanguine about increases in headcount, spending, and tech investment throughout 2022, are far less optimistic heading into the new year.
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In this piece from Bloomberg Law, Evisort’s Memme Onwudiwe and Credit Karma’s Tom Stephenson make the case that having a law degree is not – and should not be – a prerequisite for a legal operations job.
Continue Reading You Don’t Need a JD to Make A Difference in Legal OPS
In a recent article in Harvard Business Review, a team of researchers showed that 78% of transformations fail. Their analysis showed that “people are the catalysts of successful transformation.” To move beyond working in silos, incremental improvement, and isolated innovation – to achieve transformation – it’s important to have a structured process to engage leadership in setting objectives and guiding transformational change.
Continue Reading A Methodology for Legal Transformation: Assessing, Aligning & Advancing Your Department
Nathan Cemenska shares insights drawn from the LegalVIEW Analytics data warehouse as well as his thoughts on the value of data to fuel bargaining power.
Continue Reading Looking into Over $150 Billion of Legal Invoices with LegalVIEW Analytics
2022 marks the 20-year anniversary of the signing of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, or SOX. This federal law established major auditing and financial regulations for public companies, and nearly two decades in, SOX compliance is not only a legal obligation for many companies but a good business practice as well.
Continue Reading Why Contract Management is Key to SOX Compliance
Atul Dubey, newly appointed Senior Vice President and General Manager of Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory, US, joined CCBJ for a discussion about his new role, his vision for the continued growth of the company along with insights about customer-focused innovation.
Continue Reading A View from the Top of Wolters Kluwer
