Prioritizing ESG: Strategy and Risk Management
Tom O’Neil, a highly respected corporate director and advisor with broad private and public sector experience, including leadership roles in boardrooms and C-Suites shares his insights on how organizations are leaning into ESG as a high priority for both ethical and risk management priorities.
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Perspectives from a Recovering Litigator, Now Turned Board Member
Sylvia Kerrigan, a former litigator, with over a decade of boardroom experience under her belt, shares her career trajectory and insights on corporate culture and leadership.
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How to Make the Case for E-Discovery Software
Melissa Tatham, the Vice President of Marketing for Zapproved, has helped grow Zapproved into a leading cloud-based software provider for corporate legal teams. Melissa discusses a hybrid approach to In-House E-Discovery, making the case at your organization for E-Discovery Software, and what to look for in E-Discovery software.
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AI Can Think and Move Through Work Like a Lawyer. But What Does That Mean for Lawyers?
Matt DenOuden, Vice President of Global Sales at Onit, explains why Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming so interesting for lawyers and legal operations, as well as how AI allows attorneys to focus on higher-value work and better serve their businesses.
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Top 5 Workflow Automation Use Cases
2021 was another year of doing more with less, for many companies that meant relying on technology to keep essential business moving forward.
The General Counsel Report 2022: Leading with Endurance Through Risk, Culture and Technology Challenges
What does it take to lead through the wake of a pandemic and manage a corporate legal department on the threshold of tremendous societal, technological, governmental and organizational upheaval? It’s a question many chief legal officers (CLOs) and general counsel have been asking themselves and their peers throughout 2021. For some, the answer has been present all along in the choices they’ve made and in the resiliency they’ve maintained amid a never-ending stream of challenges.
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Crossing Legal’s Digital Divide with Contract Data
Tim Donaghy, Chief Technology Officer at Contract Logix, talks about the role of data when it comes to contract lifecycle management and how in-house legal can benefit from being data-driven.
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Tapping into Your Knowledge Assets
The professionals within corporate legal departments (CLDs) might be the living embodiment of knowledge workers: people whose main capital is knowledge and whose line of work requires them to “think for a living.”
Like a variety of other organizations centered around knowledge workers, CLDs are under pressure to find a way to work more efficiently, innovate faster, and get the most from their employees’ expertise. To get that edge and stay ahead, every resource counts – but in too many organizations, knowledge remains a valuable, yet untapped, asset.
There are several reasons why.
First among these is the challenge of simply finding documents. Knowledge workers report they spend an inordinate amount of time searching for specific pieces of content that are scattered and siloed across multiple systems. The information stored in documents holds tremendous potential, but that potential can’t be activated if workers are too overwhelmed to make the most of information spread between disparate sources, or don’t even know where to look.
Another key factor impacting the ability of organizations to truly tap into their knowledge is the remote workforce transformation that has taken place in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Upwork estimates that by 2025, 36.2 million
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Exceptional Firm Culture Starts at the Top
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.
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