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Legal Operations: Leading Practices in Implementing Strategy, Leading Change, and Advancing Law Department Excellence

By Association of Corporate Counsel

This resource presents the leading practices of legal departments that leverage dedicated legal operations staff to manage the business aspects of Legal. Through profiles of 11 legal departments, it conveys who leads the legal operations function, relationships between general counsel and their legal operations leaders, reasons for the legal operations function, how it functions, its scope and impacts.

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Starting a Value-based Discussion (United States)

By Kerry Galvin, Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary, Valerus Compression Services, LP

John Murphy, Chair, Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

Katherine Perrell, Partner, Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Dennis Sheehan, Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, Foot Locker, Inc.

When working with outside counsel on creating a more 'value-based' relationship, a detailed discussion of performance for value should occur. Use this handout as a guide on what to ask outside counsel before you beginning your engagement. And be prepared to answer a few questions from them as well.

Benchmarking and Research Data

Brazilian study on the relationship between legal departments and law firms

By Gonçalves & Gonçalves Marketing Jurídico, LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell

The current study is the result of the voluntary participation of Brazilian representatives of the legal departments of over one hundred national and international companies. This study covers the relationship between legal departments and law firms in Brazil.

Benchmarking and Research Data

How in-house counsel in Russia are managing their legal departments

By LexisNexisMartindale-Hubbell

This report therefore gives an inside view to the challenging task of managing a corporate legal department in Russia under extra-ordinary circumstances. It also provides heads of legal departments with important management benchmarks and gives law firm leaders greater insight and understanding when dealing with clients.

Benchmarking and Research Data

ACC Chief Legal Officers (CLO) 2016 Survey

Based on responses from over 1,300 in-house counsel in 41 countries, the ACC Chief Legal Officer 2016 Survey offers legal departments, law firms, and other legal industry partners insight on the practices, trends and changes in the role of the CLO. The 2016 report examines how CLOs source work in-house, to law firms and legal service providers. In addition, the report highlights plans and historical trends in hiring, staffing and budgeting. Notable findings include what keeps CLOs up at night, how they view the future of departmental budgets and staffing, where they plan to grow their departments, and where data breaches and regulatory issues have the greatest impact.

Articles

Real Estate Guide I - Issues Relating to Foreign Investment (Global)

By the Lex Mundi Real Estate group

This comprehensive guide provides an overview of several topics of interest including national/state restrictions imposed on ownership of real estate, the taxes that are levied in each jurisdiction, and reporting requirements globally. This guide is part of the Lex Mundi Global Practice Guide Series which features substantive overviews of laws, practice areas, and legal and business issues in jurisdictions around the globe.