As legal departments cut down on external spending, hiring freshman attorneys has become a popular, cost - saving alternative.
And
as legal departments are increasingly trying to show they are not «exceptions» to the business it also demonstrates they function like one.
Finally,
as legal departments within organizations have increased, contrary to the past, it is expected that we will see more general counsel who have spent most if not all of their legal careers in - house, rather than the current model where they are derived in large part from private practice.
The 28 law firms listed below — as well
as the legal departments at Amazon, American Express, Microsoft, 3M, Salesforce, Accenture, and BMO — are currently participating in the Fellowship.
As legal departments provide greater ease of use and experience through technology, it should result in increased user adoption.
As legal departments are forced to find efficiencies that allow them to tackle these new responsibilities, the right software tools can help.
Mr. Conner has worked with domestic and international law firms, as well
as the legal departments of multinational corporations.
As legal departments are run more like businesses, rather than just an arm of the business, they are held accountable to decisions that align with their company's business goals.
As legal departments face mounting pressures to reduce their legal spend, manage costs and demonstrate value to the organization, enterprise legal management (ELM) systems are more and more in the fore as a key player to address those challenges.
Senior management might become involved, as well
as the legal department.
Long time legal management blogger Rees Morrison announced yesterday that he has left Hidebrandt to start his own independent practice
as a legal department consultant.
Moran: If you are growing
as a legal department and you have a number of law firms that are providing invoices with a significant number of detailed line items, that's when you consider an LBR service.
As the legal department becomes increasingly viewed as part of the business line, not just a necessary adjunct, there is a fabulous opportunity for law firms and legal services businesses to step up as true partners.
In this spirit, Connie Brenton set up technology certification opportunities for her in - house legal team at NetApp, Inc., where she serves
as the legal department's senior director of operations.
This is especially tricky when you work for a subsidiary, very common in Canada, where the «home location» may use a different offering or may not have the same resource constraints
as your legal department.
As a legal department of one, Anderson says he reaches out to external counsel, often around the world, to help navigate the jurisdictions the organization operates in such as Kenya, Ethiopia, the United Kingdom and China.
As a legal department of a large SOE, we are happy to see that there are law firms like TianTong that can provide legal services for us, and we are grateful for the positive results TianTong's team has helped us to obtain.»
Prior to joining Greene, Broillet & Wheeler, Christian worked at Nike
as a legal department extern at Nike's World Headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon.
Also known
as legal department operators, or LDO's, they typically focus on financial planning, project management, and working with outside counsel.
As a legal department matures, it should use a blend of passive, active, and collaborative measures to manage law firm and vendor performance.
We always strive to be an extension of the client's commercial or legal team and, indeed, for many clients, we act
as their legal department.
During her tenure at Google, Mary has been recognized by the American Bar Association as Legal Rebel in 2016, by LegalTech News
as Legal Department Operations Director of the Year in 2016, by The Recorder as leading the Legal Operations Department of the Year in 2015, and by ILTA for Innovative Legal Department of the Year in 2015.
«We do a lot of large project work — wind farms, urban transit systems, electrical grid systems and when we looked at
it as a legal department we decided change management should be a strategic item this year.
Effectively delivered full administrative support to each department's staff (of 5 to 25)- Disney / BVHE: served
as legal department administrative assistant.
Not exact matches
It's the second major hire by Uber's new CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, who in October appointed Tony West, PepsiCo Inc.'s general counsel and a former U.S. Justice
Department official,
as Uber's chief
legal officer.
The strategy is intended to produce a bipartisan majority vote for Mr. Brennan in the Senate Intelligence Committee without giving its members seven additional
legal opinions on targeted killing sought by senators and while protecting what the White House views
as the confidentiality of the Justice
Department's
legal advice to the president.
This is the first time the president has weighed in on the issue, but the Justice
Department announced they would look into bump stocks
as part of a review process on the
legal definition of machine guns following the Las Vegas shooting.
For the platinum coin idea to work, the Federal Reserve would have to treat it
as a
legal way for the Treasury
Department to create currency.
The President, by Memorandum to the Secretary of Labor dated February 3, 2017, directed the
Department of Labor to examine whether the Fiduciary Rule may adversely affect the ability of Americans to gain access to retirement information and financial advice, and to prepare an updated economic and
legal analysis concerning the likely impact of the Fiduciary Rule
as part of that examination.
As part of this examination, the
Department was directed to prepare an updated economic and
legal analysis concerning the likely impact of the Fiduciary Rule and PTEs, which shall consider, among other things:
The company would have to file a notice with the regulatory
department; pay a registration fee of $ 250; provide evidence of registration with FinCEN
as a money services business; agree to not invest or pledge virtual currency in its custody or control on behalf of others or to engage in the exchange or transfer of
legal tender; and prove its policies for reporting, disclosures, and compliance.
He previously was a partner at the law firm of O'Melveny & Myers, a deputy general counsel at the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security
Department, and senior counsel at the Justice
Department.John Roth joined the firm
as chief compliance and ethics officer, with responsibility for ensuring that the company remains in compliance with the evolving
legal landscape.
NEW YORK (Reuters)- Twenty - eight year old Margaret Davis was making nice money
as a writer in the
legal department of a big pharmaceutical company in New York.
As the last witness for the defense in the Justice Department's legal battle against AT&T's $ 85.4 billion deal to buy Time Warner, Mr. Stephenson portrayed the 140 - year - old phone giant as being in an existential crisis and in need of the deal with Time Warner to compete against tech companie
As the last witness for the defense in the Justice
Department's
legal battle against AT&T's $ 85.4 billion deal to buy Time Warner, Mr. Stephenson portrayed the 140 - year - old phone giant
as being in an existential crisis and in need of the deal with Time Warner to compete against tech companie
as being in an existential crisis and in need of the deal with Time Warner to compete against tech companies.
Following release of the final memorandum on Friday, acting Labor Secretary Ed Hugler, in a statement, said, «The
Department of Labor will now consider its
legal options to delay the applicability date
as we comply with the president's memorandum.»
Section 7606 of the act, Legitimacy of Industrial Hemp Research, defines industrial hemp
as distinct and authorizes institutions of higher education or State
departments of agriculture in states where hemp is
legal to grow hemp for research or agricultural pilot programs.
Prior to joining Glass Lewis in 2004, Carla worked
as in - house counsel in the
legal and corporate affairs
departments of two Italian companies operating in the automotive and fashion industries.
The Justice
Department's decision to do so comes despite a reluctance, reported
as recently
as December, that the Justice
Department or Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) have the
legal authority ban bump stocks and similar devices.
The new dataset offers organizations selling into
legal and compliance
departments the same level of in - depth, verified data
as DiscoverOrg provides in its other datasets.
Because no
legal action can be taken against him in France, French Nazi hunters have come to the U.S. to get our Justice
Department to punish Bettencourt by prohibiting him from entering the country, much
as was done with Kurt Waldheim, erstwhile UN General Secretary and President of Austria.
With these credentials, and these published sentiments, she was eminently suited to her appointment, in 1993,
as the «deputy general counsel /
legal counsel» in the
Department of Health and Human Services under the Clinton Administration.
I had just resigned
as a partner in my
legal practice and Lyndon was very instrumental in getting us launched we began
as a
department of CARE.
From 1976 - 78 he was a
legal officer with the Attorney - General's
Department and from 1979 worked
as barrister, advising on trade practices, commercial, administrative, equity and constitutional cases.
As senior vice president and deputy general counsel, Krispinsky will continue his work in ABA's
legal department.
In June 2002, he relocated to Dallas to head up the
legal department at Dr Pepper / Seven Up
as senior vice president and general counsel.
The award culminated an extensive, two - year self - assessment process that required the
department to develop 112 comprehensive sets of written directives that address life, health and safety issues
as applied to law enforcement personnel, critical
legal issues and conditions that reduce risk and high - liability exposure to the officers and the agency.
Netsch said the new lawyer would run the park district «s
legal department, while attorney Alexander Polikoff would continue to act
as legal adviser to the board.
The Appellate Division, First
Department court affirmed a lower court ruling that Ming should have been given notice of the adoption petition,
as he was the child's other
legal parent per the key 2016 state high court decision in Brooke B. v Elizabeth C.C., another instance of a bio mom trying to cut off a nonbio mom.
Louise also has a special interest in succession and health law and has worked with key government
departments, judicial stakeholders
as well
as the
legal and the medical profession in furthering policy law reform in these areas.
She earlier served
as Deputy Commissioner at the
Department of Environmental Protection, General Counsel in the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, Chief of
Legal Services at the
Department of Conservation and Recreation, and
as an assistant attorney general in the Environmental Protection Division of the Office of the Attorney General.