Sentences with phrase «chief legal officer»

And, as though that weren't bad enough, only a small fraction of chief legal officers surveyed by the ACC believe firms are willing to change their service models.

The research, published last week, is based on a survey of nearly 1,300 chief legal officers in 48 countries.

The survey also asked chief legal officers how often procurement professionals are involved in selecting the outside counsel for a company.

More specifically, should someone at a general counsel or chief legal officer level ever leave their role to take on an associate general counsel or senior manager level position?

A recent survey of chief legal officers suggests that there is a wide gap between the reporting they need in order to more efficiently manage their litigation costs and the reporting they actually get.

The two methods chief legal officers use most frequently are direct price reductions from private law firms, and alternative or fixed fee arrangements.

On a scale of 1 to 10, chief legal officers gave a 3 rating or below when asked about how serious they felt law firms were about changing their delivery model.

I recently attended a conference for Canadian chief legal officers.

As Chief Legal Officer at Lightsource Renewable Energy, Europe's leading solar energy company, Dr Ece Gürsoy is in a formidable position to drive such investment in the company, and in such a largely operational business, both geographically and legally speaking, challenges don't go a miss.

She served as chief legal officer of DCLA and chief executive officer of the city's Theater Subdistrict Council awarding grants to cultivate diversity and inclusion on Broadway and beyond.

The madness was the governor,» says Trachelle Young, a former chief legal officer for Flint who now represents some of the plaintiffs suing over the water contaminations.

In a late February blog post, Microsoft Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith addressed the issue.

But that survey found a problem in access to data: 73 percent of chief legal officers said their top 10 outside law firms provided them no useful spend analysis.)

«This is a dramatic vote of no confidence from Chief Legal Officers,» observes Altman Weil principal Dan DiLucchio:

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.

James Kipling, former Chief Legal Officer for the Kenner division of Hasbro, Inc., is a member of the firm's Intellectual Property (IP) Department focusing on the entertainment law industry...

According to the ACC Chief Legal Officers 2016 Survey, the percentage of GCs / CLOs reporting legal operations staff more than doubled between 2015 and 2016, reaching 48 percent last year.

«There appears to be no relationship between the type of law you practice and feeling valued, it has more to do with the company you work for,» said Andrew Grenville, chief legal officer with Angus Reid Public Opinion who presented the findings.

Lee's hire — the third executive appointment under newly minted CEO Dara Khosrowshahi following chief legal officer Tony West and chief operating officer Barney Harford — is an important one for the company as it attempts to refurbish its image and address the many issues first brought to light by Susan Fowler's essay in February 2017.

Founded in 2009, LCLD is an organization of more than 285 corporate chief legal officers and law firm managing partners who are personally committed to creating a more diverse and inclusive legal profession.

Reacting to the guide John Jeffcock, chief executive of Winmark Chief Legal Officer network told Legal IT Insider: «This has great timing.

In 2009, she joined Scripps» legal team, before being named chief legal officer after participating in a nationwide search as the internal candidate.

Salaries for the corporate world's best - paid chief legal officers held steady last year, but the side benefits reached new heights, according to the 2006 GC Compensation Survey of Corporate Counsel magazine.

This is not an especially new development: as has been the case every year since 2011, the 2015 Altman Weil survey of Chief Legal Officers found that more law departments decreased their spend on outside law firms than increased it.

Uber has found its new chief legal officer in Tony West, executive vice-president of government affairs, general counsel and corporate secretary at PepsiCo.

The event will see all 15 teams given the opportunity to pitch their ideas to a panel of high - profile names from the legal profession, including World Bank general counsel Sandie Okoro (pictured above), KPMG UK GC Jeremy Barton and former Anheuser - Busch InBev chief legal officer Sabine Chalmers (pictured right).

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.

According to this recent Annual Chief Legal Officer Survey released by Altman Weil and LEXIS / Martindale Hubbell, 44.1 percent of companies rely on law firm Web sites, edging out legal directories (like Martindale Hubbell) as the most popular method for finding outside counsel.

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A new survey from Altman Weil has found that almost half of chief legal officers do not care about the service delivery model for a law firm so long as the right results are produced, according to The Legal Intelligencer.

The Association of Corporate Counsel's 2017 survey of chief legal officers revealed that the issues that keep them up at night are ethics and compliance, so it makes sense that 41 percent of law departments created new compliance positions from 2016 to 2017 — up from 18 percent in each of the two years previously.

The role of Arizona's attorney general is to serve as chief legal officer on behalf of the state of Arizona.

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.

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Despite the company's claims, the district's chief legal officer urged the school board in a memo to settle the dispute as a «good faith gesture.»

While many chief legal officers (CLOs) have been at the forefront of the incredible growth of in - house pro bono, pro bono efforts vary across departments.

These regulatory concerns were particularly high for chief legal officers based in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) and Latin America / the Caribbean, where 44 % and 41 % have been targeted.

Dr Zaid Mahayni, group chief legal officer at SEDCO Holding, was crowned General Counsel of the Year (large team) for his strong leadership skills, while Microsoft Gulf's Joanne Fischlin was named General Counsel of the Year (small team) for transforming how the wider business views and interacts with her department.

«We are flattered by the desire to graft our keyboard onto other smartphones, but we will not tolerate such activity without fair compensation for using our intellectual property and our technological innovations,» Blackberry chief legal officer Steve Zipperstein said in a release.

The reasoning behind the deal, Allergan CEO Brent Saunders and chief legal officer Bob Bailey explained to Fortune in an interview, is to protect against what the company considers to be «double jeopardy» in patent disputes.

It also arguably sheds further light on the decision of chief legal officer Salle Yoo to step down, a decision that became public last week.

Susannah joined in June 2017 as Credit Karma's first chief legal officer as the company continues to expand rapidly, increasing both its member base and service offerings.

In his new role, Luparello will manage all legal matters related to Citadel Securities and will report to Chief Legal Officer Shawn Fagan, according to a company spokesperson on Tuesday.

In addition to boardroom squabbles, Uber's newly minted chief legal officer Tony West will also have to navigate a trade secret battle against Alphabet's self - driving arm, in addition to several federal probes into the company's privacy practices.

MUY's management team includes Vice President of Operations (Taco Bell, KFC, Long John Silver's and A&W) Steve Adkins, Vice President of Operations (Pizza Hut and WingStreet) Jim Mooney, Chief Legal Officer Dawson Bremer, CFO John Haynie, Chief People Officer Grant Stewart and Chief Information Officer Dan Karam.

Between 1990 and 1996, she was Lead Prosecutor of Narcotics and Psychotropic Drug Offenders at the Miscellaneous Offences Tribunal (MOT), Lagos, and within that period, rose from the rank of Senior Legal Officer to Assistant Chief Legal Officer.