Sentences with phrase «many corporate law departments»

He headed the legal technology department at Microsoft for many years, driving innovation and efficiency into one of the world's largest corporate law departments.

The DuPont Legal Model has become the de facto standard for relationships between corporate law departments and outside law firms.

Chief legal officers and corporate law department leaders appeared more eager than their law firm counterparts to divulge compensation data this year, with 117 of them participating in the survey.

Female and minority lawyers, he said, are often hired away from law firms by corporate law departments, and that will have an impact over time.

Professional Services Management Platform, including legal project management, matter pricing, resource management and client / lawyer dashboards, for both law firms and corporate law departments.

More than 10,200 members in corporate law departments and private law firms benefit from the CCCA's leadership, educational programming, knowledge resources, and networking opportunities.

The positivity will soon be felt in corporate law departments as well, with 77 per cent of the 117 chief legal officers and corporate law department heads that responded reporting plans to raise their lawyers» average salaries next year.

Many corporate law departments are offering lawyers short - and long - term incentives such as equity and stock shares to create «golden handcuffs,» he adds.

Corporate Comment: Working Together — A slow dance between corporate law departments and outside counsel.

Many corporate law departments already request budget information from their firms, albeit informally.

Based on our years of experience working with hundreds of corporate law departments to establish effective processes for matter management, budgeting and analytics, it's clear that those willing to invest the time, energy and oversight required to succeed consider the effort worthwhile.

Prior to the official start of LegalTech New York 2015 this morning, a few dozen legal professionals from large corporate law departments and major law firms gathered at the «LTNY 2015 Kick - Off Breakfast» to discuss the keys to success... Read More»

Within law firms and corporate law departments, online CLE and training courses have grown in popularity, in part because of the convenience and accessibility of online classes.

MCC: What are some of the solutions that Neota Logic is offering or has recently developed for corporate law departments?

He co-chairs the appellate group at Buchalter, and has managed corporate law departments for major U.S. insurance and financial services companies.

Law firm and corporate law department support staff can also apply legal analytics to their work.

Entity regulation is about regulating the entity in which lawyers work (e.g., law firms, corporate law departments, government law departments, and solo and small firms).

ILTACON focuses on technology utilized by law firms and corporate law departments.

Other interesting results from the survey indicated that 27 % of corporate law departments have also reduced their in - house lawyer staff so far in 2009, and another 9 % consider it «likely» or «possible» that they will do so in the remainder of the year.

According the 2009 Chief Legal Officer Survey conducted by Altman Weil, Inc. [summary, PDF], there is deep skepticism among corporate law departments that their law firm counterparts are equally serious about change.

MCC's founder, Al Driver, former General Counsel of one of the world's leading retailers, was committed to partnering with the world's leading corporate law department leaders and outside counsel from elite law firms to deliver the essential information needed to be a successful general counsel.

There is also a movement to better calculate, track, and reduce spending, which may represent a tipping point in the cost - control challenge that continues to concern corporate law departments.

If law firms go away or eliminate practice groups, this certainly does create another strain on corporate law departments.

Instead of drawing its conclusions from what corporate law departments said they were doing or planned to do, its findings have always been based on what they actually did.

A graduate electrical engineer from Tufts University with a law degree from the University of Chicago, Sugarman has been a litigator and corporate lawyer at law firms, corporate law departments and governmental agencies.

Paralegals working in law firms received somewhat higher increases than their law department peers, For exempt paralegals at firms, salaries increased by an average of 4.9 percent, compared to 3.8 percent in corporate law departments.

A separate multi-year agreement renews an eight - year relationship between the companies establishing LRN as the exclusive provider of Expert Legal Research and Analysis to the DuPont corporate law department and its outside counsel.

Paralegal compensation in U.S. law firms and corporate law departments showed solid increases over the previous year, above the rise in the cost of living.

Corporate counsel rely on their firms to be effectively staffed to represent them, and, of course, law firms are impacted by the tough economy, just as corporate law departments have been.

It found that most law firms continue to rely on traditional billing for the majority of their work, and law firms are on whole less delighted with alternative fees than the corporate law departments they serve.

Sixty - five percent of corporate law departments have a formal review process for evaluating law firms and 60 % conduct such reviews on an annual basis.

Stratton points out that insurance defense litigation firms have been operating under layered cost controls since the late 1980s (unlike corporate attorneys) and that they've been using detailed litigation plans for at least a decade before the new (fashionable) legal project management structures rolled out by corporate law departments.

Knowledge strategy is more than knowledge management, which is how lawyers within law firms and corporate law departments share what they know about client work, about clients, about markets for their services, and about their firms as businesses.

Our two subcommittees pursue initiatives seeking to address the needs of larger law firms and corporate law departments, as well as solo / smaller firms.

Writing in Law Technology News, Tam Harbert reports that IBM has started developing and commercializing Watson, its «cognitive platform» for the legal industry, specifically targeting large law firms, legal service providers, and corporate law departments.

Corporate law departments around the world are wisely looking to data analytics to help ground...

For corporate law departments, contract management lifecycle software helps with drafting, storing executed versions, managing rights and obligation, and anticipating renewal dates.

The article reports on a recent research paper released by Curt Levey, who argues that actions by corporate law departments to pressure outside counsel to hire minorities may violate anti-discrimination laws.

«A lot of our clients are still thinking through how legal process outsourcing (LPO) can be best applied within their law firm or corporate law department today and what the «next generation of LPO» looks like.

LawRevu is a nationwide network of attorneys who assist law firms and corporate law departments with document review in complex litigation.

Allieri will be Regional Vice President of the New York City office, and brings 20 years of experience in litigation support and document - related technologies to D4, including extensive work with major law firms and corporate law departments.

A discussion about KM drivers aligns well with a recent industry development, the rise of corporate law department legal operations professionals...

Corporate law departments are increasing compensation across all lawyer levels as more work moves in - house, according to HBR Consulting's 2017 Law Department Survey.

For more than 35 years, our in - house recruiters have developed deep relationships with both corporate law departments and lawyers gaining an unmatched perspective of the legal marketplace.

With over 20 years of experience in litigation support and document - related technologies, Paul Allieri has spent a large portion of his career assisting and supporting major law firms and corporate law departments.

Corporate law departments were once allowed to function passively, handling matters brought to them by their internal clients and working with outside counsel with little oversight by corporate management.

I spoke with Rajitha Boer, the founder and director of Yerra Solutions, a professional services company supporting European and Asian corporate law departments.

Lex Projex ™ will even help corporate law departments or law firms train their existing legal professional staff to become legal project managers and to use common, affordable LPM technologies to efficiently, effectively and economically manage their legal matters — we're not afraid to «build in our own obsolescence» as part of our LPM services.

Whether you are a solo practitioner, an attorney at a firm, government agency, a corporate law department, or a new lawyer seeking your first practice opportunity, you will benefit from the mentoring program experience.

LPM LaunchPad, was first released in 2012 and is the only comprehensive online certification program to help law firms and corporate law departments gain the necessary project management skills to not only meet client expectations, but to also manage work more efficiently and improve client communications.