Sentences with phrase «chief legal officers said»

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.)

Microsoft's president and chief legal officer said on CNBC's Closing Bell on Tuesday that the company can «pick and choose» its customers.

This chief legal officer said that in - house counsel provide three different types of service: 1) a «help desk» that provides quick, informal, yet valuable advice over the phone and by e-mail; 2) legal project work, such as major contracts and M&A work; and 3) risk management activities initiated by the in - house lawyers themselves, such as when needed to address a new legal standard or regulatory requirement.

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«Because the silencing of voices has helped perpetuate sexual harassment, the country should guarantee that people can go to court to ensure these concerns can always be heard,» Brad Smith, Microsoft's president and chief legal officer, said in a blog post announcing the changes.

Microsoft president and chief legal officer Brad Smith said on Tuesday that the company is «principled» about the sorts of people it works with.

«This uncertainty is hard for employees,» says chief legal officer and senior vice president John Geschke.

«We know that people who choose beer when they become of legal drinking age are two times more likely to continue drinking beer throughout their lifetime, and as an organization, we have an opportunity to regain ground with this group,» said David Kroll, MillerCoors» chief marketing officer, in a statement.

«This is really stupid,» said Francine Sullivan, chief legal officer of REC Silicon in Moses Lake, Washington, which halted production this year.

«This is a very busy time with holiday cash needs,» said Chris Janish, chief executive officer of Legal - Bay LLC, which describes the cash it sends to plaintiffs as «non-recourse advances.»

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.

In a blog post, Denelle Dixon - Thayer, Mozilla's chief legal and business officer, said a judge had ordered the vulnerability disclosed to lawyers for a defendant caught in the probe, Jay Michaud, but not to any of entities that could fix it.

Google will be Firefox's default search provider on desktop and mobile in the United States, Canada, Hong Kong and Taiwan, said Denelle Dixon, Mozilla's chief business and legal officer.

When he appeared at Google's shareholders meeting this month, David Drummond, Google's chief legal officer, surprised people when he said the company would release the data.

Josh Bridegroom, chief executive officer of the nonprofit Downtown Modesto Partnership, said it's not known whether legal marijuana stores will create problems.

«It's only natural European regulators would be at the forefront,» said Brad Smith, Microsoft's president and chief legal officer.

As the state's chief legal officer, the attorney general's office is taking this step to protect the health and safety of Oklahomans,» Pruitt said in a statement.

«A smartphone might involve as many as 250,000 (largely questionable) patent claims, and our competitors want to impose a «tax» for these dubious patents that makes Android devices more expensive for consumers,» said David Drummond, Google's chief legal officer.

That is the problem, said Steve McFarland, chief legal officer for World Vision.

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.

«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.

«Our colleagues in Massachusetts and New York, as the chief legal officers in their states, have a right to gather information necessary to determine whether a company has engaged in fraudulent or misleading conduct harmful to the residents of their respective states,» said Maryland Attorney General Frosh.

ALBANY, N.Y. — Barbara Underwood, thrust into the job as New York state's chief legal officer when Eric Schneiderman abruptly resigned amid allegations he abused woman, said Tuesday she won't seek election to the attorney general's positon.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)- New York's acting attorney general says she won't seek election as the state's chief legal officer after the job was vacated when Eric Schneiderman abruptly resigned amid a scandal.

Jeff Silvester chief operating officer at AIQ said: «AggregateIQ works in full compliance within all legal and regulatory requirements in all jurisdictions where we operate.

«We are outraged at the lengths to which the government seems to have gone to intercept data from our private fibre networks,» Google's chief legal officer David Drummond said in a company statement.

«Promoting and defending public education is a prime focus for NSBA,» said Francisco M. Negrón, Jr., NSBA's Chief Legal Officer.

«From the beginning, Congress has consistently required parents who disagree with the services provided under the IDEA to first exhaust administrative remedies,» said Francisco Negrόn, NSBA Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel.

«The Viper has always been more of a street - legal race car than a track - capable streetcar, and the new 2016 Dodge Viper ACR is the fastest street - legal Viper track car ever,» said Tim Kuniskis, President and Chief Executive Officer — Dodge Brand and SRT Brand, FCA — North America.

«The coalition was formed to target shady offshore organizations and pirated behaviour,» said Erin Finlay, chief legal officer at the Canadian Media Producers Association.

On Thursday, Chief Legal Officer David Drummond said criticism from the German government resulted from a «misunderstanding» regarding book copyrights.

(AP)-- Struggling BlackBerry - maker Research In Motion Ltd. said Monday that it is losing another senior executive as its chief legal officer is retiring from the company after 12 years.

The company spent $ 4 million last quarter on legal costs, «virtually all of which» related to the bureau's case, Navient's chief financial officer said on its earnings conference call last month.

This is «the first time that a major international body has called on every country in the world to close its legal markets for elephant ivory,» said Andrew Wetzler, deputy chief program officer at the Natural Resources Defense Council.

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.

«What happened here is normal consultation which has traditionally happened over years and decades,» says Meehan, himself a former executive legal officer to former chief justice Antonio Lamer.

«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.

«One of the greatest benefits of belonging to the Massachusetts Bar Association is access to tools and services that strengthen an attorney's practice,» said MBA Chief Legal Counsel and Chief Operating Officer Martin W. Healy.

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.

In a blog post Tuesday, David Drummond, Google's chief legal officer, said that attacks have forced the company to «review the feasibility of our business operations in China.»

«We conducted a comprehensive global search to find an executive with a breadth of legal and regulatory experience in financial services,» said Janice Fukakusa, chief administrative officer and chief financial officer of RBC.

B.C.'s Legal Services Society is looking at almost $ 13 million in new budget funding for the start of its April 2018 fiscal year, says chief executive officer Mark Benton.

In fact, a 2016 Altman Weil survey of 336 chief legal officers found that while 39 percent of law departments report collecting and analyzing management metrics to improve efficiency, only 6.6 percent say they get real value from those efforts.

Exigent has appointed its COO Wayne Ramsay to chief strategy officer as it says it plans to broaden out its pure play legal process outsourcing and contract management and automation offering to include working with the C - suite on more bespoke technology solutions including AI and blockchain.

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.

«It makes clear that the US government can no longer seek to use its search warrants on a unilateral basis to reach into other countries and obtain the emails that belong to people of other nationalities,» says Brad Smith, President and Chief Legal Officer at Microsoft.

Bindu Cudjoe, deputy general counsel and chief administrative officer with BMO, said there has been a «fundamental shift» in terms of legal department focus on how external firms are bringing value to their clients.

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.

«This is further validation that publishers like Avvo needn't obtain the consent of their subjects prior to exercising their First Amendment rights,» Josh King, Avvo's chief legal officer, said in a statement issued last night.