«This is a dramatic vote of no confidence
from Chief Legal Officers,» observed Altman Weil principal Dan DiLuccio.
«This is a dramatic vote of no confidence
from Chief Legal Officers,» observes Altman Weil principal Dan DiLucchio:
«Therefore, we took directives
from the Chief Legal Officer of the nation; the Attorney General and Minister of Justice.
Not exact matches
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.
Karen Maidment was
chief financial and administrative
officer of BMO Financial Group
from 2007 to 2009, and was responsible for all global finance operations, risk management,
legal and compliance, tax, communications and mergers and acquisitions.
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
Days after Uber acquired Otto, Google's head of corporate development and
chief legal officer, David Drummond, stepped down
from Uber's board of directors.
David Drummond, Alphabet's
chief legal officer, has stepped down
from Uber's board of directors, Recode has confirmed.
The company is already facing a number of federal probes into its privacy practices as it transitions
from its former
chief legal officer, Salle Yoo, who was not notified about this incident, to Tony West, who will start this week.
Founding members included three principals (one
from each level), five parents, a school nurse, the food services director, the district Section 504 coordinator, the director for
legal relations and the
chief operating
officer.
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.
On Tuesday, the case was mentioned in Ibadan
Chief Magistrate Court and although the
Chief Magistrate in charge of the case, Mrs. Kehinde Durosaro - Tijani adjourned till March 1, 2016, the police
officer investigating the death of Lowo and the involvement of his wife, Amos Adewale, informed the
Chief Magistrate Court that based on
legal advice
from the state, the court lacked the jurisdiction to hear the case.
«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.
«
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.
I'm moving
from the recruitment side of the house to report to the
chief legal officer and lead the HR function as director of human resources.
The committee received an analysis of what state charter schools receive in funding under current state law
from State Department of Education (SDE)
Legal and Government Affairs attorney Jennifer Widness and SDE
Chief Financial
Officer Brian Mahoney.
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.
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.
Threats of a
legal fight have already emerged, especially as native groups look to a series of high - profile spills — including two in the U.S. last summer
from Enbridge lines — as evidence that pipelines pose substantial environmental risk.At Enbridge's meeting Geraldine Thomas - Flurer, who co-ordinates the anti-pipeline Yinka Dene Alliance, warned
chief executive
officer Pat Daniel of what is to come.
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.
The study found that more than half of in - house counsel reported their companies were increasing spending on cybersecurity, based on input
from more than 1,000 in - house counsel at 887 organizations in 30 countries, including 77 per cent who hold the positions of GC or
chief legal officer.
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.
In a heavyweight hire
from outside of the
legal sector, Ashurst has appointed GE Capital International's IT director Noel Jordan as its new
chief technology
officer (CTO), as current CTO Bruna Pellicci prepares to leave the firm at the end of July.
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.
Chief Legal Officers have rated law firms a median score of 3 out of 10 every year from 2009 — 2016 in the question of «law firms» seriousness about changing their legal service delivery model.&r
Legal Officers have rated law firms a median score of 3 out of 10 every year
from 2009 — 2016 in the question of «law firms» seriousness about changing their
legal service delivery model.&r
legal service delivery model.»
Watch it here to see highlights
from the project announcement at the white house and hear
from Brad Smith, President and
Chief Legal Officer of Microsoft Corporation, LSC's President Jim Sandman, and Mark O'Brien, Pro Bono Net's Executive Director.
(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!)
As Avvo's
chief legal officer, Josh King, points out that the impetus is more business for all and access to justice for consumers: ``... your post misses the larger point: we believe that many consumers who are currently trying to go it alone would benefit
from counseling with an experienced attorney.
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.
The answers in the survey were given
from general counsels and
chief legal officers.
No word, however, on feedback
from the
legal department's Chief Legal Off
legal department's
Chief Legal Off
Legal Officer.
This week Lawyer monthly heard
from Amanda Cunliffe, founder and
Chief Officer for
Legal Practice at Amanda...
«As the
chief legal officer of one of the world's leading financial institutions, David brings a wealth of expertise
from the corporate sector, including a strong commitment to diversity and pro bono initiatives within the
legal profession.»
In addition, they received responses
from 53 law firm
chief marketing
officers and senior marketers, information which formed part of a broader and more detailed survey of content marketing usage in the
legal industry.
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.
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.
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).
This week Lawyer monthly heard
from Amanda Cunliffe, founder and
Chief Officer for
Legal Practice at Amanda Cunliffe Solicitors, who below analyses the Government's proposed changes to small claims limits and offers her expert opinion.
As
Legal IT Insider revealed ahead of the market yesterday (30 January), Workshare has unveiled a trio of hires including former Chadbourne CIO Curt Meltzer, together with Shaun Locke
from Reckon and Dave Englund
from Phoenix Business Solutions and ex OpenText, which have been well received on social media with comments
from Ben Weinberger at Prosperoware, White & Case's
chief knowledge
officer Oz Benamram, and BD manager at File & ServeXpress, Joanne Berkow Schwartz, among others.
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.»
This highlights the importance of an overarching Information Governance approach between those managing the data, those responsible for its protection — i.e the
chief privacy
officer and
legal teams, those performing the data analytics and those using the information obtained to ultimately derive value
from it.
Perhaps in future surveys of clients,
Chief Legal Officers will report that they are gaining value
from AI.
A report in The Lawyer back in October 2013 cited warnings
from a
Chief Information
Officer at a top - 10 City firm who was convinced a prominent
legal practice would go «down in flames as a result of a cyber attack breaching client confidentiality».
From Romania alone, 10 general counsel were included on the list, namely: Adina Calfa - Dudoiu,
Legal Director — Roșia Montana Gold Corporation, Radu Culic,
Legal, Director — Roche Romania, Ramona Ene,
Legal Manager (Romania & Bulgaria)-- Cargill, Sorina Ilie, Head of
Legal — Agrana Romania, Minerva Ioniță,
Legal team leader — Arctic, Bogdan Pleșuvescu, Executive director,
Chief Legal Officer — Banca Transilvania, Mihaela Popescu,
Legal and Compliance Director — Getback Recovery Romania (Former Head of
Legal of Mercedes - Benz Financial Services), Gabriela Popescu,
Legal attorney — Microsoft Romania, Ioana (Bosinceanu) Regenbogen, Director, Head of
Legal and Corporate Affairs — ING Bank Amsterdam, Bucharest Branch and Mihaela Scărlătescu, Head of
Legal and Compliance Department — A&D Pharma (Central and Eastern Europe).
According to the
Chief Legal Officer survey, when
Chief Legal Officers were asked what service improvements and innovations they would most like to see
from their outside counsel, this was the response:
Monica Ralli is an experienced marketing professional with a background in organisation transformation gained
from senior leadership roles in B2B marketing, business development and sales in the professional services sector drawn
from legal sector, engineering consultancy, international banking, global consultancy and now as
Chief Marketing
Officer of Hay Group, a global management consulting leader in people and business performance.
The full report is available to buy
from BTI, which interviewed 300
chief legal officers and general counsel at Fortune 1000 companies and large organizations.