Sentences with phrase «other corporate counsel»

We have canvassed opinions from law firm partners and in - house counsel across Ireland, to identify corporate counsel that have been instrumental in changing or forming opinions within their company or industry; developing brilliant technical solutions to complex issues; creating innovative structures to ensure that the in - house function is driving the business forward; or providing a business working model that other corporate counsel should follow.

In Vancouver, Stanger is Angiotech's only in - house counsel, although the company does have other corporate counsel working on IP and commercial law outside of Seattle.

Gutelius says what he and other corporate counsel are looking for from their service providers is more efficiency in getting the work done.

I have given industry talks including at The Economist GC Summit, Financial Times Innovative Lawyers Conference, LegalTechNYC, ILTACon, British Legal Technology Forum, LexPo Amsterdam, LegalTech Asia, ReInventLaw Conferences, ArkGroup Legal Analytics, LegalWeek Technology Forum, Legal Marketing Association, College of Law Practice Management, Thomson Reuters Law Firm Leaders Forum, LMA Tech, Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC) and at many law firm retreats and other corporate counsel leadership events.

These tools could be similar to the systems that Microsoft and other corporate counsel have created to help their salespeople determine when they should consult their legal department on contract issues.

Corporate counsel frequently seek referrals from lawyers they trust, particularly other corporate counsel.

Not exact matches

As outside general counsel for many of her clients, Ms. McCall advises businesses on a wide variety of corporate and other legal matters.

In addition, she has extensive experience counseling businesses in all aspects of the business life cycle from the initial structuring and formation of the business to financing that business; hiring employees; corporate governance; day - to - day operations; negotiating licensing and other commercial agreements; equity incentive plans; and liquidity events.

Previously serving in the General Counsel role for both public and private life sciences companies as well as the Compliance Officer and Corporate Secretary for a public company, Christina has broad strategic «in - house» experience, including extensive experience with intellectual property and partnership transactions, financings, patent portfolio development, compliance and other legal matters.

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There's the ongoing special - counsel investigation into whether the Trump campaign aided a Russian campaign to aid Trump's candidacy and defeat his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton; there's the associated inquiry into whether the president obstructed justice when he fired former FBI Director James Comey, whom he had asked not to investigate his former national - security adviser; there are the president's hush - money payments to women with whom he allegedly had extramarital affairs, made through his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, and facilitated by corporate cash paid to influence the White House; there is his ongoing effort to interfere with the Russia inquiry and politicize federal law enforcement; there are the foreign governments that seem to be utilizing the president's properties as vehicles for influencing administration policy; there's the emerging evidence that Trump campaign officials sought aid not only from Russia, but from other foreign countries, which may have affected Trump's foreign policy; there are the ongoing revelations of the president's Cabinet officials» misusing taxpayer funds; there is the accumulating evidence that administration decisions are made at the behest of private industry, in particular those in which Republican donors have significant interests.

He has counseled numerous boards and non-management directors on governance issues, investigations and litigation involving corporate officers and other crisis situations.

Under the terms of the Advisory Agreement, each Fund is responsible for the payment of the following expenses among others: (a) the fees payable to the Adviser, (b) the fees and expenses of Trustees who are not affiliated persons of the Adviser or Distributor (as defined under the section entitled («The Distributor»)(c) the fees and certain expenses of the Custodian (as defined under the section entitled «Custodian») and Transfer and Dividend Disbursing Agent (as defined under the section entitled «Transfer Agent»), including the cost of maintaining certain required records of the Fund and of pricing the Fund's shares, (d) the charges and expenses of legal counsel and independent accountants for the Fund, (e) brokerage commissions and any issue or transfer taxes chargeable to the Fund in connection with its securities transactions, (f) all taxes and corporate fees payable by the Fund to governmental agencies, (g) the fees of any trade association of which the Fund may be a member, (h) the cost of fidelity and liability insurance, (i) the fees and expenses involved in registering and maintaining registration of the Fund and of shares with the SEC, qualifying its shares under state securities laws, including the preparation and printing of the Fund's registration statements and prospectuses for such purposes, (j) all expenses of shareholders and Trustees» meetings (including travel expenses of trustees and officers of the Trust who are not directors,

Published by Shawe & Rosenthal LLP, Management's Workplace Lawyers, this blog informs human resource professionals, corporate counsel, business leaders, policy makers, journalists, judges, and other attorneys about critical labor and employment issues.

Q: Will you be seeking advise and counsel from ALEC's Board of Directors, Private Enterprise Advisory Council, Board of Scholars or Private Sector Members to clarify ALEC's position on climate change in the wake of Google and other recent corporate departures?

Whether it is corporate counsel to corporate counsel or neighbor to neighbor, legal consumers are strongly influenced by the positive (or negative) experiences of others.

The graduating batch of 2017 has found internship and employment opportunities with leading law firms, corporates, senior counsels, think - tanks, start - ups, and public policy organizations, among others.

Corporate counsel in the U.S. have also pushed the envelope, and through A Call to Action and other groups, top companies and their legal counsel have told their legal service providers diversity is a priority and if you don't do it, we won't use your firm.

The idea is to give corporate counsel an easy - to - use dashboard from which they can connect with all the tools they need to use in their day - to - day work and collaborate with other members of their legal team, both within the legal department and at outside firms.

The Association of Corporate Counsel has thrown its support behind an Alberta energy company after the Alberta Court of Appeal ordered it to disclose certain witness statements and other documents to the government pursuant to an internal investigation into a fatal job site injury.

Lexology: Lexology pulls content such as articles and alerts off law firm websites and distributes it to senior corporate counsel and other subscribers to its daily newsfeed service (currently consisting of over 16,000 subscribers, including corporate counsel at many Fortune 500 companies).

Since 2011, LexisNexis has had the exclusive license to archived content from all ALM publications, which include The American Lawyer, Corporate Counsel, The National Law Journal, Legaltech News, the Law.com website, and a number of other regional and specialty publications.

An early interest in business law ultimately led Reggie Clark to Eversheds Sutherland (US)'s Tax Practice Group, where he counsels a variety of corporate clients on the complex tax issues that affect corporate acquisitions, restructurings, spinoffs and other transactions.

Wallander, who leads the firm's health law practice, counsels clients in numerous aspects of health care law, including hospital and health system initiatives, physician alignment, joint venture and other affiliation arrangements, governance, Fraud and Abuse / Stark analysis, physician / hospital and other provider contracts, corporate compliance, physician recruitment, medical staff and peer review, tax - exemption and Medicare reimbursement.

The Third Circuit in In re Bevill Bresler & Schulman Asset Management Corp., developed a five - part test (the Bevill test) to examine the merits of such an assertion by an individual employee against company counsel.50 Under this test, employees must show that (1) they approached corporate counsel for the purpose of seeking legal advice; (2) they made it clear that they were seeking advice in their individual capacity; (3) counsel sought to communicate with the employee in this individual capacity, mindful of the conflicts with its representation of the company; (4) the communications were confidential; and (5) the communications did not concern the employee's official duties or the general affairs of the company.51 The Bevill test has been recognised by other jurisdictions as a means of assessing whether a company employee may assert attorney — client privilege in an individual capacity arising out of communications with corporate counsel.52 (See also Chapter 13 on employee rights.)

BLG attorneys provide general corporate counseling to companies at all stages of growth, and our attorneys are committed to meeting all the legal needs of our corporate clients, including establishing and implementing business strategies, forming corporations, limited liability companies, joint ventures and other business entities, and entering into key contractual relationships.

Other recent reports and survey by consultant / polling companies further show that U.S. corporate counsel are paring down the number of outside counsel used and are consolidating their outside counsel into «hubs» which work together to provide services to the client corporation.

The mass harvesting and storage of court records and other legal data provides an opportunity for corporate litigants and their legal counsel to complement decision making with legal data analytics.

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.

We pride ourselves on effective teamwork with corporate counsel and other external counsel.

Our practice consists of strategic litigation (criminal proceedings in which our client is the victim or is the subject of an investigation), legal counselling (compliance, prevention and management of criminal risks), and fraud and other internal corporate investigations.

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.

My only explanation for this is that, although corporate counsel use LinkedIn regularly and more than every other directory but one, they do not yet associate it with the prestige of directories such as Chambers.

Corporate and government counsel should also take notice of the possibility that virtual worlds could be used for money laundering, identity theft, and other fraud - related crimes.

I've heard numerous accounts of corporate counsel who rebuffed suggestions of alternative billing or other innovations from law firms in favour of doing the things the same way they've always been done.

Whether you are a general counsel or a staff attorney, responding to an SEC investigation may be one of the most important things that you will do in your career — and it will certainly be a giant blip on the radar of all other corporate officers and directors at your company.

As such, a corporate counsel might consider creating an avatar with which to travel into Second Life and determine whether other users are committing infringement.

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He will also serve as outside general counsel to portfolio companies and other businesses, advising on corporate governance, executive compensation, recapitalizations and other strategic business matters.

He joined Manulife after 18 years at Citigroup, first in London and later in Asia, where he was a non-Executive Director of Citibank China and Managing Director and Asia General Counsel of its Corporate & Commercial Bank, Global Transactions Services, Structured Finance as well as other divisions.

• Counsel to various corporate stakeholders (shareholders, directors / officers, and creditors) in a numerous contract, «oppression» and other commercial disputes including appearances at the appellate level.

In other words, Asay's ideal «in house counsel» also expands the pie, by converting the software - licensing process itself into a corporate asset.

What I'm hear from corporate counsel is that with the acceptance of the technology based on Da Silva Moore and the other cases that we've been talking about, that there is a slight openness.

Patricia Jackson is a senior trial and appellate counsel with a broad litigation practice, including corporate and commercial litigation, class actions, securities, professional negligence, defamation and other media law, environmental and energy, constitutional and administrative law.

1982)(recognising that when corporate counsel finds evidence of criminality protected under Upjohn «the wiser course may be to hire counsel with no other connection to the corporation to conduct investigations»).

Recent studies by the Washington and New York state bar associations, the National Association of Women Lawyer, US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Catalyst, Minority Corporate Counsel Association, and others, confirm that women lawyers continue to face obstacles to success in the legal profession — and that employers who are committed to women's professional success can remove those barriers.

Led by the Association of Corporate Counsel's «ACC Value Challenge,» corporate America is increasingly demanding that their outside law firms abandon the entrenched, historic, «cost - plus,» «billable hour» economic pricing model in favor of «Alternative Fee Arrangements» («AFAs») and other «value billing» approaches (e.g., non-hourly pricing arrangements such as «fixed fee,» «contingency,» or «hybrid» fee arranCorporate Counsel's «ACC Value Challenge,» corporate America is increasingly demanding that their outside law firms abandon the entrenched, historic, «cost - plus,» «billable hour» economic pricing model in favor of «Alternative Fee Arrangements» («AFAs») and other «value billing» approaches (e.g., non-hourly pricing arrangements such as «fixed fee,» «contingency,» or «hybrid» fee arrancorporate America is increasingly demanding that their outside law firms abandon the entrenched, historic, «cost - plus,» «billable hour» economic pricing model in favor of «Alternative Fee Arrangements» («AFAs») and other «value billing» approaches (e.g., non-hourly pricing arrangements such as «fixed fee,» «contingency,» or «hybrid» fee arrangements).

He has been quoted in the Wall St. Journal, Washington Times, ALM, Law Technology, Corporate Counsel, and other publications.

Nexlaw has worked with law firms, corporate counsel and other organizations to help them understand and apply these approaches.

In the survey, the IADC asked 689 attorneys, about evenly split between corporate counsel (386) and law firms (303), about shifts in legal spending, relationships, and motivations for hiring outside counsel, among others.