Settling this also takes one legal issue off the already overburdened shoulders of Uber's legal team, now led
by Chief Legal Officer Tony West.
Avi Reichental, who had been with the company for a dozen years, has been replaced on an interim basis
by Chief Legal Officer Andrew Johnson.
Law360 reports that BTI Consulting Group has published a recent survey that shows out of $ 21.3 billion spent
by chief legal officers inside top U.S. corporations, alternative fee arrangements to hourly rate arrangements accounted for 35.6 % of total spending in 2015, up 20.5 % from 2012.
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.
Led
by executive chairman Eric Schmidt and Google's
chief legal officer David Drummond, the committee recently released a 44 - page report following public meetings held in seven European cities this fall, laying out the criteria and procedure for removing the results.
THE POWER OF PUSHING YOUR LIMITS Moving the drive to compete from the mat to the office Hosted
by Herman Miller Amelia Boone, Professional Athlete and
Legal Counsel, Apple Stephanie McMahon,
Chief Brand
Officer, WWE Moderator: Kristen Bellstrom, Deputy Digital Editor, The Broadsheet and Co-chair, MPW Next Gen, Fortune Introduction: Karen Stratton, Vice President, Area Sales, Herman Miller
THE FIXERS How business moves forward — with or without the help of Washington — to address today's most critical societal issues Ideas That Change the World Track hosted
by Salesforce Anne Finucane, Vice Chairman, Bank of America Helena Foulkes, Executive Vice President, CVS Health; President, CVS Pharmacy Jeanne Jackson,
Chief Executive
Officer, MSP Capital Moderator: Nina Easton, Fortune Introduction: Amy Weaver, President,
Legal and General Counsel, Salesforce
THE NEW RULES OF INCLUSION AND EQUALITY Rethinking the routes to equality in the workplace Ideas That Change the World Track hosted
by Salesforce Jess Lee, Partner, Investments, Sequoia Capital Cindy Robbins, President and
Chief People
Officer, salesforce.com Sandra Phillips Rogers, Group Vice President,
Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel, Toyota Motor North America Reshma Saujani, Founder and CEO, Girls Who Code Moderator: Ellen McGirt, Senior Editor, Fortune
GROWTH AND INNOVATION: The Future of Cities Hosted
by NBCUniversal Debbie Dingell, US Representative, 12th District of Michigan, United States House of Representatives Jacqueline Hinman, Chair and CEO, CH2M Belinda Johnson,
Chief Business Affairs and
Legal Officer, Airbnb Judith Rodin, President, The Rockefeller Foundation Moderator: Leigh Gallagher, Fortune; Author, The End of the Suburbs: Where the American Dream Is Moving
Other
legal fights related to Uber include its battle with self - driving car company Waymo, which is suing Uber for allegedly stealing trade secrets, and a lawsuit filed
by investor Benchmark against former
chief executive
officer Travis Kalanick claiming breach of contract.
Orland Park police hosted two training classes open to law enforcement officials around the region and hired former Olympia Fields police
chief and law enforcement instructor Jeff Chudwin to give Orland Park
officers guidance on
legal and practical issues presented
by the law, such as politely but quickly asking whether a driver is armed during a traffic stop, Kenealy said.
A similar application was filed
by S.O Ibrahim,
Chief Legal Officer of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in the case of Ogene vs Onyema, in which he insisted that the tribunal had no jurisdiction to entertain the matter any more.
Section 8 of the act states: «There shall be for the commission an Executive Secretary who shall be: «a
legal practitioner with not less than 20 years post qualification experience and requisite experience in human right issues; a person of proven integrity and be the
Chief Executive and Accounting
Officer of the commission; appointed
by the president subject to confirmation
by the Senate.»
The letter opens
by reminding state
chief education
officers of the
legal requirements to test all children in grades 3 - 8 and once in high schools, that the examinations must be same for all students, and no student may be excluded from the examinations.
«We made Focus
by Firefox because we believe content blockers need to be transparent with publishers and other content providers about how lists are created and maintained, rather than placing certain content in a permanent penalty box,» Mozilla
Chief Legal and Business
Officer Denelle Dixon - Thayer wrote in a blog post.
The Proxy Committee is composed of representatives of CSIM's Fund Administration, Portfolio Management, and
Legal Departments, and chaired
by CSIM's
Chief Investment
Officer, Equities or his / her delegate.
Brad Smith, the President and
Chief Legal Officer at Microsoft took to LinkedIn to write a lengthy disapproval of the U.S. leaving the Paris Climate Accord saying, «We are disappointed with today's decision
by the White House to withdraw the United States from the landmark, globally supported Paris Agreement on climate change,» Smith writes.
Which is signed
by: Bart Becht,
Chief Executive
Officer, Reckitt Benckiser Neil Carson,
Chief Executive, Johnson Matthey Ian Cheshire,
Chief Executive, B&Q Mike Clasper,
Chief Executive, BAA Jonson Cox,
Chief Executive, Anglian Water Group Mervyn Davies, Group
Chief Executive, Standard Chartered Bank Alain Grisay,
Chief Executive, F&C Asset Management Sir Stuart Hampson, Executive Chairman, John Lewis Partnership Sir Julian Horn - Smith, Deputy
Chief Executive, Vodafone Group Gavin Neath, National Manager, Unilever U.K. Lucy Neville - Rolfe, Company Secretary and Group Corporate and
Legal Affairs Director, Tesco Trudy Norris - Grey, Managing Director UK & Ireland, Sun Microsystems Hugh Scott - Barrett,
Chief Financial
Officer, ABN Amro James Smith, Chairman, Shell U.K. Limited
The agreements can only be established with countries that protect privacy and human rights, according to a blog post
by Microsoft president and
chief legal officer Brad Smith.
The announcement was made
by Eric Sugden,
chief technology
officer for
Legal Enterprise Solutions (LES), the TR division formed last year that combined TR's Elite and Serengeti businesses.
With all the latest changes to compensation and claim limits in the UK, Lawyer Monthly here benefits from an analysis
by Amanda Cunliffe, Founder and
Chief Officer for
Legal Practice at Amanda Cunliffe Solicitors, on the Government's far - reaching reform to personal injury law.
HUB, which launched in February this year, was the brainchild of
chief marketing
officer Jeff Berardi, who here explains to
Legal IT Insider how the new offering came about, how it will be delivered and how the training is sufficiently interactive that it been approved
by bar associations in the US.
(See also the comment to Adams» post
by Josh King, Avvo's
chief legal officer.)
There was Bahar Ansari, co-founder of Case.one, who is disrupting practice management with her pay -
by - the - case pricing; Nicole Bradick, cofounder and
chief strategy
officer of CuroLegal, who this year played key roles in helping to launch the
Legal Checkup for Veterans and the Hate Crime Help app; Carol Lynn Grow, owner and VP of marketing at LawToolBox.com, which was recently nominated for a Microsoft People's Choice Award; Anna McGrane, COO of PacerPro, who this year was named to the Fastcase 50; Laura Safdie, cofounder, COO and GC of Casetext; Janine Sickmeyer, CEO and founder of the NextChapter bankruptcy platform; and Tracy Stevens, vice president of product and design at MyCase, who I interviewed during a visit there last June.
The nation's 100 best - paid
chief legal officers saw their incomes increase an average of 9 percent in 2002, with the average combined salary and bonus surpassing $ 1 million, according to The 2003 GC Compensation Survey conducted
by Corporate Counsel magazine.
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.
(See my post «How the
Legal Industry's Pursuit of Leverage Pits the Client's Interests Against Those of the Law Firm» — where I recount my
chief financial
officer friend's receipt of a bill from an AmLaw 100 highest revenue firm for tax law advice from two of its junior lawyers whose the AmLaw 100 employer considered them sufficiently incomplete in their qualifications that it charged my CFO friend for their «supervision»
by — of all specialties — a partner in the real estate group!)
Following the acquisition of Datum
Legal by global legal outsourcing provider Integreon, Daniel became Integreon's chief technology officer for discovery solut
Legal by global
legal outsourcing provider Integreon, Daniel became Integreon's chief technology officer for discovery solut
legal outsourcing provider Integreon, Daniel became Integreon's
chief technology
officer for discovery solutions.
As a two - time International
Legal Technology Association (ILTA) Distinguished Peer Award winner, and the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at KYL, he's uniquely qualified to talk about the changes being wrought by workflow automation, and its potential upside for the legal profes
Legal Technology Association (ILTA) Distinguished Peer Award winner, and the
Chief Information
Officer (CIO) and
Chief Information Security
Officer (CISO) at KYL, he's uniquely qualified to talk about the changes being wrought
by workflow automation, and its potential upside for the
legal profes
legal profession.
Only 5 percent of
chief legal officers at corporations believe that firms are committed to innovation, according to a new survey
by Altman Weil, reports Larry Bodine.
We were also joined
by Trent Carlyle, an owner and the
chief technology
officer of
Legal Talk Network, and Chad Jolly, LTN's senior software developer.
The winner will be chosen
by a high - profile judging panel that includes Dr Sandie Okoro, senior vice-president and World Bank general counsel; former AB InBev
chief legal officer Sabine Chalmers (pictured); EVP and
chief business affairs and
legal officer at PayPal, Louise Pentland; and Jeremy Barton, the general counsel of KPMG UK.
In the 2016
Chief Legal Officer Survey recently published
by the management consulting firm Altman Weil, CLOs say that the number one tactic they can use to control costs is improving efficiency, and that one of the top ways they can improve efficiency is
by leveraging technology tools to better collect and analyze management metrics.
Paul Neo, SAL's
chief operating
officer and
chief financial
officer, said: «We are encouraged
by the strong response from the
legal community to the FLIP initiative.
The session was moderated
by David Obarowski,
chief strategy
officer, Business Process Services, IBM, and featured: Nadia Dombrowski, senior vice president and general counsel, Community Federal Savings Bank; Michael Sonsteng, head,
Legal Process Outsourcing, Infosys BPO; and Arvin's Vij, managing director and associate general counsel, J.P. Morgan.
According to the ACC
Chief Legal Officers 2017 Survey, the rated importance of data breaches has increased
by seven percentage points since the 2013 - 14 survey was conducted.
Hosted
by Guy Alvarez, the firm's founder, and Tim Baran, its
chief marketing
officer, the podcast features guests from inside and outside the
legal industry.
Tony West's first official day as
chief legal officer at Uber Technologies began
by calling regulators to say: «Hi, it's Tony.
As stated in a letter joined
by more than 250
chief legal officers: «LSC is the foundation on which the civil justice infrastructure is built, and we strongly believe that access to counsel is vital both for the health of our democracy and the prosperity of our communities.»
Corporate
legal departments are generally headed
by the general counsel (GC), who serves as the
chief legal officer of the company.
10 points on what the
Chief Legal Officer wants from their external Counsel
by guest author, Ian White.
Paul Neo, SAL's
Chief Operating
Officer and
Chief Financial
Officer (pictured above), said: «We are encouraged
by the strong response from the
legal community to the FLIP initiative.
Christopher Finn, managing director and
chief operating
officer of corporate private equity, highlights «the innovative approach taken
by the in - house
legal team in London in working closely with and counselling our investment teams, and ultimately our investment committees», something he says has made «a significant contribution to helping Carlyle find value through investments others have shied from and facilitated the turnaround of underperforming investments.»
He was
Chief Legal Officer and Vice President of Business Development for JusticeLink / CourtLink, which he founded and developed into a $ 300 million company with 300 employees until its acquisition
by LexisNexis in 2001.
According to Altman Weil's 2016
Chief Legal Officer Survey, CLOs said that the number - one tactic they can use to control costs is to improve efficiency, and that one of the top ways they can improve efficiency is
by leveraging technology to better collect and analyze management metrics.
Keesal, Young & Logan's
Chief Information
Officer and
Chief Information Security
Officer, Justin Hectus, was chosen
by ALM to co-chair
Legal Week's LegalCIO conference (January 31 — February 1, 2018) for the third year in a row.
And Fireman & Company partner and respected
legal consultant Ron Friedmann analyses two recent surveys, the Altman Weil 2017 Chief Legal Officer (CLO) Survey and the 2018 Report on the State of the Legal Market by The Center for the Study of the Legal Profession at the Georgetown University Law Center and Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute and Peer Monitor ® provide a great snapshot of the state of the legal ma
legal consultant Ron Friedmann analyses two recent surveys, the Altman Weil 2017
Chief Legal Officer (CLO) Survey and the 2018 Report on the State of the Legal Market by The Center for the Study of the Legal Profession at the Georgetown University Law Center and Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute and Peer Monitor ® provide a great snapshot of the state of the legal ma
Legal Officer (CLO) Survey and the 2018 Report on the State of the
Legal Market by The Center for the Study of the Legal Profession at the Georgetown University Law Center and Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute and Peer Monitor ® provide a great snapshot of the state of the legal ma
Legal Market
by The Center for the Study of the
Legal Profession at the Georgetown University Law Center and Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute and Peer Monitor ® provide a great snapshot of the state of the legal ma
Legal Profession at the Georgetown University Law Center and Thomson Reuters
Legal Executive Institute and Peer Monitor ® provide a great snapshot of the state of the legal ma
Legal Executive Institute and Peer Monitor ® provide a great snapshot of the state of the
legal ma
legal market.
The Quorum Club is a «
by invitation only event,» and tailored exclusively to General Counsel,
Chief Legal Officers, senior law firm practitioners and Partners.
The trend documented in this article is further confirmed
by the results of the most recent
Chief -
Legal -
Officer survey conducted
by A&W, who believe (for the last 5 years) that their outside counsel firms do not have the desire or will to significantly change their methods and practices.
Eugene Meehan, Q.C., former Executive
Legal Officer to
Chief Justice Lamer, says: «In choosing the next
Chief Justice, Trudeau would serve himself and the country better
by picking a strong leader.