In this month's Going Global column, learn how to improve your department's accountability and response time.
Discovering similarities and building personal relationships are important for Turkish people. Therefore, you need to wine and dine — or in certain cases, tea and dine — before you get down to real business.
The author eagerly awaits the death of the billable hour. In the meantime, he suggests using real-time matter tracking.
Bill Mordan discusses "inattentional blindness" and how it affects all levels of corporate interactions.
A CLO discusses how outsourcing decisions are critical to the company.
The author discusses the many benefits of attending industry trade shows.
The "power paradox" and the importance of managing your inner Machiavelli.
Read this 2012 Communicator Award-winning column!
Who invented the airplane? Depending on your location, the answer might not be the one you expected. This column focuses on the evolution of ideas, and what lawyers stand to benefit from this process.
A kludge is a crude workaround, an assortment of poorly matching parts that form a sub-optimal but serviceable whole. According the author, generating legal documents by copy-and-pasting prior work is a classic kludge and a poor substitute for proper templates, document automation and knowledge management.
In ACC Docket's September issue, Lead the Way columnist Whitney Wiley interviews an emerging young leader, her nephew.
Small Law columnist Jeffrey W. Wheeler relates how it's a blessing and a curse to being proficient at tasks that don't pay the bills.
Bob Feldman discusses the types of solidly constructed contracts in-house lawyers would like to see.
Many of the shortcomings of hourly billing appear right on the invoices themselves! Rather than despair, however, the author has derived a certain entertainment from the review process, roughly akin to playing the game Whack-a-Mole.
Discusses the advantages of a compliance/ethics office and compliance/ethics officer.
Strong internal controls are vital. For closely held companies, which are not mandated to comply with section 404 of Sarbanes-Oxley and its related financial controls, a lack of internal controls can create an atmosphere for improper financial oversight. It is the job of the head of the finance department and the corporate counsel to make sure that financial controls are in place that will adequately protect the company.
The management responsiblities of a chief legal officer (CLO) sometimes extend into the realm of real estate and property of the company. This responsibility can often involve making crucial decisions into how the property should be maintained. This article explores the different dimensions of the job, and varying methods for management.
This is a cheat sheet for Schedule 13G Annual Filings.
This ACC Value Practice piece outlines communications practices to enhance efficiency and consistency across the legal department. In addition, this piece outlines attributes and benefits to a legal department in creating a legal blog.
Statements before the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding DOJ and SEC policies related to attorney-client privilege.
Setting and managing budgets, training, use of quarterly reports, and how the budget performance is measured by CIGNA's law department, is discussed in this value practice.
This short resource outlines potential uses of blockchain in commodities trading.
"Diversity" is often acknowledged as an important goal in building project or case teams, but there's little discussion about why it is desirable. Read this article from Robert Half Legal to learn why diversity creates a more productive project team.
This is a sample letter sent to internal experts to ask for their assistance with investigations and potential litigation.
This article discusses the U.S. Supreme Court's unanimous June 29, 2023 decision on Groff v. DeJoy, clarifying employers’ obligations to accommodate employees’ religious practices.
We continue to work in a global market. Increasingly the best talent is to be found outside our domestic market and is more mobile. At the same time immigration laws are becoming more stringent and authorities increase scrutiny on who can enter a country and for what particular purpose. Today’s economic climate requires companies to take a smarter approach to their global mobility programmes. This session will provide insights in the complexity of international mobility and will help to address the matter effectively.
Small law departments can successfully implement alternative fee/value-based arrangements. See how Wolverine World Wide, Inc.'s law department is working with outside counsel to handle its portfolio of securities legal work.
The intersection of software, technology and health care and the proliferation of software as a medical device in the health care arena has become common place and has spurred significant innovations. This article discusses legal and regulatory considerations related to Software as a Medical Device (SaMD).
Learn how to expand value to the organization, set clear goals, communicate effectively and behave with integrity while maintaining career strategies in this tough economic time. From Robert Half Legal.
Creating and nurturing a professional environment that meaningfully respects and embraces people's differences is essential. Read this article to find out how to bring that culture to your organization.
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