Summary: Altman Weil released a new survey this week that found close to half of
all chief legal officers do not care about the delivery service of law firms.
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.
Not exact matches
In a separate hearing on ICOs in Congress last week, Mike Lempres,
chief legal and risk
officer for cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, said the company
does not trade ICO tokens because it «can not take the risk of inadvertently trading an asset that is later found to be a security.»
As a rule, the software masks identifying information, Polak says: «Only when something is deemed to be a threat
do you get approval from the
chief privacy
officer or part of the
legal team to be able to break the glass» — decrypting more granular personal data — «and see who the individual is,» he adds.
Chief Experience
Officer Jonathan Laramy insisted that the company initially had an eye on rolling out service in Austin but made the decision to wait until
doing so was entirely
legal.
Woolworths won, and its
chief legal officer Richard Dammery immediately crowed that «we defended the case because we firmly believed we
did not act unconscionably and we
did not break the law».
«As the
chief legal officers for over 130 million Americans and foreign residents of our states, we condemn President Trump's unconstitutional, un-American and unlawful Executive Order and will work together to ensure the federal government obeys the Constitution, respects our history as a nation of immigrants, and
does not unlawfully target anyone because of their national origin or faith,» the statement said.
For purposes of this article, I don't care whether you title them as
Chief Legal Officer, VP
Legal Affairs or General Counsel — but I
do like the word «general» in «General Counsel» because it connotes the right mentality the first lawyer within a fast growing technology company must have in order to succeed.
«In particular, we are concerned that this amalgamation
does not reflect a model of community lawyering that responds to the needs of low - income people,» said the Law Union of Ontario in a recent letter to
Legal Aid Ontario
chief executive
officer Bob Ward and the Ministry of the Attorney General.
Or
does the AG, as the state's
chief legal officer, have some room to exercise independent judgment.
Burges Salmon has taken on five
legal apprentices as part of the Trailblazers programme, which started in May: «These are school leavers who will be
doing their apprenticeship with us, with a view ultimately to qualify as a lawyer with a degree,» says
chief people
officer Robert Halton.
Indeed, the 2015 Altman Weil
Chief Legal Officer Survey reveals a scary insight: Altman asked chief in - house legal officers, on a scale of 1 - 10, how serious did they believed law firms were about changing their service delivery m
Chief Legal Officer Survey reveals a scary insight: Altman asked chief in - house legal officers, on a scale of 1 - 10, how serious did they believed law firms were about changing their service delivery m
Legal Officer Survey reveals a scary insight: Altman asked
chief in - house legal officers, on a scale of 1 - 10, how serious did they believed law firms were about changing their service delivery m
chief in - house
legal officers, on a scale of 1 - 10, how serious did they believed law firms were about changing their service delivery m
legal officers, on a scale of 1 - 10, how serious
did they believed law firms were about changing their service delivery model.
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.
Many included
chief financial
officers and other C - level executives in companies that don't have
legal departments.
And we
did find that it is a core strategy for... a significant component of the
legal industry here,» says Jon Purther, president and
chief operating
officer of CorbinPartners.
Obviously IT is important, public relations, corporate communications can be involved, the
chief information
officer, executive staff, in - house
legal, outside
legal, and other functions within the organization need to come together in the time of the response to make sure that they all know their place, know their role, and what it is that they're supposed to
do.
When I started in the field, more often than not companies
did not have
legal operations as a function, and almost none had a
chief legal operations
officer.
Bob, who is the
chief IT
officer of Baker Hostetler and one of the most astute observers of the
legal tech scene, had the idea to create a consortium of corporate counsel, tech people and outside counsel to talk about blockchain, what it can
do and where it can go.
In the Association of Corporate Counsel's 2011 CLO Survey (referred to here as the ACC CLO Survey [2]-RRB-, which surveyed over 1,100
Chief Legal Officers, the CLOs were asked what they would like to see outside counsel do to improve the relationship with, or work done for, their respective legal departm
Legal Officers, the CLOs were asked what they would like to see outside counsel
do to improve the relationship with, or work
done for, their respective
legal departm
legal departments.
Legal operations professionals are often hired to solve one problem in a legal department, but the role quickly evolves into working with legal department leadership (whether a General Counsel or Chief Legal Officer) to address the full range of issues facing the company's legal department's problems that don't involve practicing
Legal operations professionals are often hired to solve one problem in a
legal department, but the role quickly evolves into working with legal department leadership (whether a General Counsel or Chief Legal Officer) to address the full range of issues facing the company's legal department's problems that don't involve practicing
legal department, but the role quickly evolves into working with
legal department leadership (whether a General Counsel or Chief Legal Officer) to address the full range of issues facing the company's legal department's problems that don't involve practicing
legal department leadership (whether a General Counsel or
Chief Legal Officer) to address the full range of issues facing the company's legal department's problems that don't involve practicing
Legal Officer) to address the full range of issues facing the company's
legal department's problems that don't involve practicing
legal department's problems that don't involve practicing law.
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.
«I don't get the sense that there is a huge uptick in
legal services,» said Thomas A. Decker, president and
chief executive
officer of Cozen O'Connor of Center City.
The survey, which is the 15th annual
Chief Legal Officer Survey, found that 43 percent of the respondents
did not care about the delivery model of the firm as long as the wanted results came.
«Forty - three percent of CLOs say they don't really care about a law firm's delivery model as long as they get the results they want at a competitive price,» says the new 2014
Chief Legal Officer Survey by Altman Weil.
Owen Rees, McLachlin's executive
legal officer, quickly responded, telling the Post, «The
Chief Justice
did not make the statement attributed to her.
Yet the issue doesn't seem to be top of mind for the
chief legal officers or CLOs at Canadian corporations...
Colin Gibson,
chief operating
officer at Your
Legal Friend, added: «People are at the heart of everything that we
do and it's always a pleasure to welcome newly qualified solicitors to the team.
In an interview with
Legal Marketing Canada, Torys»
Chief Marketing
Officer Stuart Wood remarked that the project
did not consume significant resources, and that initial feedback from clients was positive.
These surveys capture current thinking of
Chief Legal Officers and give lawyers in private practice a good indication of what corporate clients are think about and want from firms that
do work for them.
Christina Sontheim now leads a team of eight individuals in her role as
chief legal and compliance
officer for this complicated business, and goes into the formative professional experiences that have moulded her into a top - level in - house
legal professional: «Starting directly with my first job in a big international company had an enormous impact on the way I work, as
did leading my first bigger team and taking on my current role as
chief legal and compliance
officer.
In my prior post, GCs Now
Do Less Law, I reported on the Altman Weil survey of
Chief Legal Officers.
Half report their
chief legal officer (CLO) or general counsel (GC) also carryout corporate secretary duties while the other half
does not.
Chief commercial
officer of BitPay, Sonny Singh, has said that regulations imposed by countries (including South Korea) are not as bad as some people think, «I think regulators don't want to ban it, they just want to regulate it more and make sure it's all being
done in a
legal way which is actually good for the industry.»
In a separate hearing on ICOs in Congress last week, Mike Lempres,
chief legal and risk
officer for cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, said the company
does not trade ICO tokens because it «can not take the risk of inadvertently trading an asset that is later found to be a security.»
«We exercised our contractual right to terminate our agreement with Yahoo based on a number of factors including
doing what's best for our brand, our effort to provide quality web search, and the broader content experience for our users,» Mozilla
chief business and
legal officer Denelle Dixon said in a statement.
The company's
chief legal officer, Alan Garten, said it «had nothing to
do with the sale of units in Trump SoHo,» which were handled by Bayrock, and had never
done any business in Kazakhstan or had any dealings with Ablyazov or Khrapunov.