Download the 2018 ACC Foundation: The State of Cybersecurity Report, underwritten by Ballard Spahr LLP, and learn what more than 600
corporate counsel say about their cybersecurity experiences, role, and practices.
Across the board, 80 percent of
corporate counsel say they encourage their outside counsel and vendors to use machine learning, and 72 percent say the same about data visualization and analytics.
Released Thursday during a panel discussion in New York City on the future of the law firm business model, the LexisNexis - commissioned survey (executive summary) found that 71 percent of
corporate counsel say that law firms are not doing enough to respond to the current financial pressures on their business model.
Almost half of
corporate counsel say their companies were not prepared for new federal e-discovery rules that took effect in December 2006 under revisions to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
Not exact matches
«Maybe we didn't put our best foot forward when we entered into Canada,»
said Damien Liddle, the company's senior
corporate counsel.
«Maybe we didn't put our best foot forward when we entered into Canada,»
says Damien Liddle, senior
corporate counsel with Target Canada, over the video's plinky piano refrain.
«Chief Justice Roberts could have serious misgivings about the unprecedented implications that Hobby Lobby's position could have in upturning centuries of
corporate law practice,» Elizabeth Wydra, chief
counsel Constitutional Accountability Center
says.
«Even if you have a product that's in beta, you're still subject to liability laws,»
said Jenn Wall,
corporate counsel at X (formerly GoogleX), without mentioning any company names.
But Charlie Spies, who served as
counsel for Mitt Romney's 2008 presidential campaign,
said Giuliani's comments must be weighed against Trump's history of aggressively protecting his
corporate and personal reputation.
The company's board of directors should conduct an independent review of the executives» actions, including surveying their email traffic and interviewing the executives as well as their colleagues,
said Bart Friedman, a senior
counsel at Cahill Gordon & Reindel, who advises boards on matters including
corporate compliance and enforcement challenges.
But Charlie Spies, who served as
counsel for Mitt Romney's 2008 presidential campaign,
said Mr Giuliani's comments must be weighed against Mr Trump's history of aggressively protecting his
corporate and personal reputation.
«It shows the mayor made her personal wealth on the so - called restructuring of Intermagnetics,» he
said, referring to a medical - device manufacturing company in Latham that Sheehan represented in positions of vice president, general
counsel and
corporate secretary.
Oshodi, a Deputy Branch Manager, while being led in evidence by
counsel to the EFCC, Mr Rotimi Oyedepo
said, «Hon. Ofili - Ajumogobia is the signatory to the account Nigel and Colive which is a
corporate account.
Venditto's court papers
say Mei had been wearing a wire for four months when the town interviewed him in June 2015 — and argues he was in the process of making a deal with the government and not a client anticipating that a meeting with
corporate counsel would be kept confidential.
Although policymakers and
corporate honchos seek his
counsel, sometimes they don't like what he has to
say — witness the flak he took from BP during the Deepwater Horizon probe.
Brad Smith, who is Microsoft's general
counsel and executive vice president of legal and
corporate affairs and based in Redmond, Washington,
said, «Unless we close the skills gap, we're not going to fully address the employment gap.»
By the way, they
say in France a good breast FindLaw provides New York Legal Research for lawyers, attorneys, and
corporate counsel.
«I feel like the people I worked with were my family and that I died,»
says one of countless employees laid off by Ryan Bingham (George Clooney) of Career Transition
Counseling, an intermediary hired to administer employee layoffs on behalf of
corporate cowards.
«Research shows that nearly half of all teachers have seen a doctor in the last 12 months as a result of work related physical or mental health problems,»
said David Leckie, Director of Mind Matters
Corporate Counselling.
Joe Taylor, Franklin American's senior vice president and
corporate counsel,
said in a statement that Justice's inquiries «have been customary within our industry.»
Mike Swan, an associate portfolio manager at Canso Investment
Counsel,
says that while the chance of default in a
corporate bond is always present, investors might actually be taking a greater risk by buying government bonds.
«It has become painfully obvious over the past few years that ALEC is
corporate lobby front group masquerading as a charity — at taxpayer expense,»
said Arn Pearson, general
counsel at CMD.
Say a
corporate counsel searches the directory for a litigation attorney in Boston.
He
said that the company has devoted greater resources to building its
corporate counsel center and its pages for non-lawyers.
According to this press release, Allyson Bouldon, president - elect of the Association of
Corporate Counsel's Chicago chapter and a member of the winning team,
said FutureFirm 1.0 allowed her to think about the way she'll approach her job going forward.
Cooke
said banks will have to think twice before hiring legal
counsel on behalf of clients who can't hope to afford
corporate rates for legal services.
Even
corporate clients consider discounting their legal rates: «We almost always negotiate rates down from the rack rates,»
said Randal S. Milch, general
counsel for phone giant Verizon.
Earlier this week, I spoke with Nitin Gupta, the former lawyer who is director of the professional services group at Box, who
said that Box is working towards the goal of providing a strong cloud - collaboration platform that will serve all segments of the legal profession — large firms, small firms and
corporate counsel.
Yesterday's letter
said that, since acquiring InsideCounsel, ALM had come to realize that its audience is skewed towards
corporate counsel in smaller and start - up companies, whereas Corporate Counsel targets larger companies and legal dep
corporate counsel in smaller and start - up companies, whereas Corporate Counsel targets larger companies and legal depar
counsel in smaller and start - up companies, whereas
Corporate Counsel targets larger companies and legal dep
Corporate Counsel targets larger companies and legal depar
Counsel targets larger companies and legal departments.
The announcement goes on to
say that three ALM publications will remain free for unlimited reading online —
Corporate Counsel, Law Technology News and The Asian Lawyer — while content from four «premium» publications — Supreme Court Brief, Litigation Daily, New Jersey Law Journal Decision Alert and Delaware Business Court Insider — will continue to be accessible only to paid subscribers.
«At some point, a lawyer should be able to sit down with
corporate counsel and
say, «We can take 20 depositions on this matter but you probably really only need to take eight.
The disposal by Wolters Kluwer of its French trade media assets is
said to be in line with its strategy to focus on legal information and software solutions for law firms,
corporate counsel, and other legal and compliance professionals.
When
corporate counsel were asked what types of law firm - generated content they found most valuable, 77 percent
said client alerts and 76 percent
said practice group newsletters, while only 35 percent answered blogs.
«Negotiations were held in confidence but it can be
said that the CBA never conceded that it would discontinue its practice of retaining the large majority of the membership fees paid by
corporate counsel.
The new chairman of the Canadian
Corporate Counsel Association says he is looking ahead to a year that will see the organization move on from the controversy of early 2011 to provide improved services to in - house counsel across the c
Counsel Association
says he is looking ahead to a year that will see the organization move on from the controversy of early 2011 to provide improved services to in - house
counsel across the c
counsel across the country.
For
corporate counsel and law firm partners wanting to evaluate the credentials of other lawyers and make a decision about which outside
counsel to retain, 84 percent
said that Martindale - Hubbell and either important or very important to the decision.
I don't think so,»
said Paul Krugman, NewYork Times columnist and Nobel - Prize - winning economist, during his luncheon address to the Canadian
Corporate Counsel Association's World Summit [PDF] last week in Vancouver.
The design was based on feedback from
corporate counsel and law firms about what functionalities they need most, Integreon
said.
«In the
corporate world, renewed business activity and ongoing regulatory requirements are creating demand for specialized in - house
counsel,» Lutecki
says.
«' SocraticLaw is for the trial attorney and
corporate counsel what game film is to the quarterback,»»
said W. Wade W. Scott, Esq., an early - retired Delaware
corporate litigator who is CEO and principal of SocraticLaw.
Rotstein
says most
corporate counsel still work in small in - house departments, despite the recent uptick in hiring he's noticed.
Minority females were more likely than anyone else to see themselves as becoming
corporate counsel or public service lawyers, while nearly 40 percent
said they had no idea where they would be.
«I have met with a couple of the plaintiff class action firms who are counting the number of sleeps until July 1,»
said Peter Clausi, executive vice president
corporate affairs and general
counsel at GTA Resources and Mining Inc. «I think they are going to wind up being the Wade Boggs of litigation — they're going to go to the hall of fame hitting singles.»
«Our distribution has grown to include
corporate counsel, directors and executives — the audiences that business firms want to reach,» Cuyler
said.
I wasn't yet admitted to practice law in Texas, but the same day we got here I was offered a position as in - house
corporate counsel for an international, publicly traded logistics company,»
said Gus.
Seventy percent of
corporate counsel erroneously
say the rules require production of documents in their native file formats — 27 percent more than
said that in the prior year's survey.
«As legal leaders in Canada, we are duty - bound not only to advocate for greater inclusion, but also to act to generate the positive impact we want to see in our businesses and communities,»
said Desjardins, senior vice president, general
counsel and
corporate secretary,
corporate social responsibility chairman, with Bombardier.
You have to educate and monitor and it can be very difficult,»
said David Kohlenberg, deputy general
counsel of
corporate development and finance law with TransCanada Pipelines Ltd., who also spoke on the panel.
The results — released to coincide with the one year anniversary of the revised rules — «bring to light how unprepared
corporate counsel attorneys felt they were when new amendments to the federal rules went into effect a year ago, and that challenges still exist,»
said lawyer and LexisNexis Applied Discovery VP Courtney Barton in releasing the survey.
Two - thirds of 2,882
corporate counsel polled by legal recruiter Laurence Simons
said the loss of income (representing about # 16,500 of an average # 82,500 salary) would be worth the extra day.