The ability to effectively manage<br />outside counsel is essential to the success of in-house lawyers. Learn tips on selecting, evaluating, comparing, and retaining the outside counsel that best suit the organizational needs of your company, developing lists of providers and criteria for preferred legal service providers and specialized firms, implementing alternative billing models, and using legal project and process management techniques with your outside counsel to streamline your engagements.<br />
With the US Department of Justice (DOJ) collecting record corporate fines this year, your board asks if your company’s compliance is up to par. How do you respond? How do you gauge your program? This session will analyze the DOJ’s Federal Sentencing Guidelines for the Prosecution of Business Organizations, set out your minimum requirements, and lay out best practices that you can implement. This will cover leadership, risk assessments, policy development, communications, training, establishment of controls, and monitoring and testing of controls. Presenters will offer firsthand experiences (both positive and negative) and best practices for building and maintaining your compliance program.
To social psychologists, cognitive dissonance occurs when a person has two conflicting ideas or beliefs, neither of which she can easily set aside. So instead of disavowing one cognition, she creates a belief that satisfies both, no matter how absurd. As in-house attorneys, however, we are expected to offer objective counsel and guidance. Recognizing cognitive dissonance is necessary to do our job.
Election Marketing is the age-old technique of “attack spin.” Unfortunately, some attorneys think Election Marketing works in corporate disputes as well. But long-term, Election Marketing does not work in the business world. And there are two fundamental
reasons why.
Your job is to present legal options to your client and guide him to the right decision. To do that job well, however,
you must recognize the force of ambiguity aversion. You have the perspective to choose the best path and discount the effects of uncertainty, but your client likely sees the matter with far greater trepidation.
New communication tools have increased that portion of our workday in which we are able to communicate. This leveraging of our time has made us more accessible, more engaged with our organizations, and, presumably, more effective.
A collateral refers to that property in which a creditor can take a security interest. We also realize that the rest of the English-speaking world mostly uses collateral as an adjective to mean something that is parallel or corresponding.
The shift from outside to in-house counsel disrupts common assumption, changes perspective, and encourages
creativity. Great attorneys either naturally or strategically embrace that opportunity. Great attorneys just “think laterally” every day.
John Ross takes a public health approach to litigation management: litigation got you down? Treat it like the flu. Read on to find out more.
This article deals with significant subjects of tax litigation in Switzerland.
Emotional intelligence is the ability to read, understand, and react appropriately to the emotions of others. And it can be measured quite accurately as EIQ, or the Emotional Intelligence Quotient. Emotionally intelligent people succeed because we relate to them as one of our own.
A business school education does not necessarily prepare you to be managerially efficient. Here are a few simple tips to help improve your management style.
How far is it prudent for the in-house business generalist to go in negotiating IP contracts? John Ross works to evaluate and find an answer this pressing and relevant query.
Through evaluation of psychological forces of loss aversion, Bill Mordan stresses the importance of making a conscious effort to avoid forces that may prompt one from not making the best decisions possible.
Bill Mordan evaluate the role of rationalization in corporate dealings, as well as in personal decision makings.
Some 150,000 years ago, modern humans first strolled across the plains of East Africa. From there, what evolutionary catalysts brought about the modern lawyer?
Are human beings still evolving? How about the modern lawyer?
This article examines how your relationship with your doctor can influence your health.
Read this 2010 Clarion Award-winning column!
As lawyers, we are usually faced with complex systems of safety nets. The risk analysis is over. This article discusses how we can reduce the chance that a normal accident will occur for existing systems.
Bill Mordan describes the effect even small lies can have and how they affect lawyers.
Columnist Bill Mordan explains why genuine well-being trumps the quest for happiness.
This article notes the difference between speaking and communicating and offers advice on how practitioners can become better communicators.
The author discusses one of the worst maritime disasters of the early 20th century to teach a lesson about bureaucratic organizations and good intentions.
This article examines the concept of heuristics, or the way human beings make judgments with incomplete information, and how to limit its destructive impact.
Read this 2012 Communicator Award-winning column!
Although good news seems to be a rare commodity these days, this author suggests that we are living the best life ever. Learn why everyone — including notoriously pessimistic attorneys — should be a little more optimistic.
Read John Ross' approaches for maintaining more control over his work life and balancing it with his away-from-work life.
EU data privacy laws make the collection of Electronically stored information (ESI) and its transfer out of Europe challenging. The session will begin with a brief update of U.S. case law focusing on cross-border discovery generally, and then turn to a discussion of Privacy by Design ("PbD"), which has become the gold standard for privacy protection in the 21st Century. This discussion will cover examples of how PbD has been operationalized and used to address the challenges presented by EU data privacy laws. The session will then cover Europe's acknowledgement of Canada's stringent privacy laws which make it a unique base for e-discovery collection, analysis and review. By collecting ESI from European employees into Canada, and then culling down/reviewing ESI in Canada to identify responsive email and documents, organization can minimize the amount of ESI for which they must obtain consent from employees for transfer to the U.S.
This guide provides corporate counsel and international practitioners with comprehensive jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction guidance to product liability laws and regulation.
Topics covered include causation, defenses and estoppel, procedure, time limits, remedies, and costs/funding.
This article is a Gotham City street lighting project case study.
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