A report for Bird & Bird on what
general counsel really think about their current and potential use of technology.
Krug said
the general counsel really wanted to understand what her transition would mean for her reputation as an aggressive litigator.
Not exact matches
«Politicians
really get to the point where they want to claim the lake is being cleaned up,» said Joe Heath,
general counsel for the Onondaga Nation, which has a reservation nearby and considers the lake to be sacred.
«The sexy issues for the media are going to be the abortion issue, not
really the education piece,» said Francisco Negrón, the
general counsel of the National School Boards Association, in Alexandria, Va..
We have
really tried to improve instruction, but we are still not where we need to be as required by the state and federal government,» said Ricardo Soto, the district's deputy
general counsel.
Elbert Lin, the solicitor
general of West Virginia and the
counsel representing the 26 other states challenging the Clean Power Plan, began his argument by saying the rule was
really «about constructing a new energy economy.»
«If this video
really represented Dr. Holdren's personal opinion, then it's bad enough that OSTP spent taxpayer dollars to produce and post it on the White House web site,» said CEI
general counsel Sam Kazman.
by Matthew Hardin, FME
Counsel When Attorneys
General from seventeen states banded together in a political crusade to «investigate» and threaten to prosecute those who disagree with their climate change agenda, E&E Legal decided to pull back the curtains to expose what the states were
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«I'm just
really worried about my colleagues who witnessed it or tried to help or who are just traumatized by the impact of the situation,» says Leola Pon,
general counsel of the TDSB.
The first panel on «Forging an Open Legal Document Ecosystem»
really caught my eye featuring a wonderful mix of legal and technology types: Brian Carver (Free Law Project), Thomas Bruce (LII), Paul Sawaya (Restatement), and Julio Avalos (
General Counsel and Chief Legal Officer at GitHub).
Former, or I guess retired
general counsel of FMC Technologies,
really did some interesting things there.
But while Krugman's grim outlook took me aback, what
really struck me was the lack of surprise among audience members, including a lot of
general counsel and in - house lawyers from national and global entities.
Mark Le Blanc,
general counsel at educational public broadcaster TVO, says the software «doesn't give you the answer, but if you can frame the question clearly, what they can do is
really limit the risk — they're risk tools.
«Law firms are under pressure from disruptors in the sector and some firms have dealt with that
really innovatively, and some not so much,» says Rachael Davidson,
general counsel at National Grid.
«My favorite days in the law firm life were those when the client or their
general counsel was in and I was
really problem - solving.
But the policy gives boards the discretion to retain board members with more withheld votes than for votes, albeit «only in extreme circumstances, and only
really temporarily,» according to Judy Cotte, the CCGG's
general counsel and director of policy development.
«You could easily envisage getting to a stage where the only law firms you
really want to deal with, as in - house
counsel or
general counsel, are those who share a platform with you, or are prepared to use your platform so that your collaboration is supported by technology that is common between you and the law firm.»
General counsel are on the ascendant, they
really are.»
Britton: Consumers just don't
really know what they are doing when it comes to this very difficult choice and I, even as a
general Counsel, as the Chief
Counsel for Expedia, to the extent that I needed to hire a lawyer outside of my word of mouth network it was hard.
This aspect is
really where the big picture functionality comes from — it allows
general counsel to get a birds eye view of work allocation, costs and a direct insight into how their department is running.
As Telstra's
General Counsel Carmel Mulhern describes it, «We are a
really large, if not the largest, in - house legal team for a corporate [entity], and we feel we have a role and a responsibility to give something back to those less fortunate and to give something back to the community.»
«While we've had some good successes informally co-ordinating our practices, in 2013 we saw an opportunity to unite all the litigators and the e-discovery specialists across the enterprise in a formal practice management group,
really leveraging the diverse views of our litigators from across our global footprint in Toronto, Chicago, Montreal, and London, to think creatively about how to do things better, more efficiently, and consistently in our litigation practice,» says Pascale Elharrar, associate
general counsel and managing director, litigation, BMO Financial Group and chair, litigation practice management group.
«Where you
really see the difference is if you're a
general counsel in a public company and you're a woman — you're making less money than if you are a
general counsel in a public company and you're a man.
«Especially in some of the small legal departments, many
general counsel are trying to build a sense of value in the organization and they're very afraid to get someone who will be in there for 10 months and doesn't
really give a damn about how that long - term relationship plays out,» says Parmar.
«I am
really pleased, both as a member of the ACC's global board and as a Canadian in - house lawyer, to see a B.C. chapter,» said David Allgood, executive vice president and
general counsel of Royal Bank of Canada, and treasurer of ACC's board of directors.
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counseling in
general, and more importantly, working with couples, and whether or not there's any personal relationship issues that had prompted you to want to work in helping couples to
really feel close and connected.
«We're not abandoning malls,» says Executive Vice President and
General Counsel David Zoba, «But we
really want to showcase our storefront.
June Barlow, vice president and
general counsel of the CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS ®, says record keeping is
really an individual decision that's a matter of risk analysis.