Connie Brenton

January 04, 2021 | Corporate Counsel

Given the criticality of knowing and addressing our outside counsels' cyber risk, we set our sights on developing an assessment program that would provide ongoing digital evaluations of our law firms.

By Connie Brenton

15 minute read

December 31, 2015 | Corporate Counsel

Being perfectionists generally serves lawyers well. With a low margin for error, most legal work benefits from a perfectionist bent. Perfection, however, has a dark side, especially where the world operates on a continuum (better to worse) rather than a binary divide (right/wrong). Voltaire warned that the perfect is the...

By Connie Brenton, D. Casey Flaherty

4 minute read

May 21, 2014 | Corporate Counsel

In the same way that it's hard to remember life before email, legal teams that have implemented electronic billing are already wondering how they ever functioned without it.

By Connie Brenton

7 minute read

March 24, 2014 | Corporate Counsel

Professionals in our field are becoming familiar with the concept of the legal ecosystem, a term that conveys relationships shared by corporate and other clients, outside counsel and third-party service providers.

By Connie Brenton

3 minute read

January 26, 2014 | Corporate Counsel

Beyond the numbers, you know you are winning when you feel the culture shifting, or as Matt Fawcett put it, when you can say welcome to the modern world.

By Connie Brenton

4 minute read

December 31, 2013 | Corporate Counsel

A handful of law schools are innovating and trying something entirely new, collaborating with industry, alternative legal service providers and law firms on how best to re-create the law school curriculum.

By Connie Brenton

4 minute read

November 21, 2013 | Corporate Counsel

Amid the data explosion, there is good news. There are multiple ways to bring order to chaos. The question is, which path to take?

By Connie Brenton

4 minute read

October 31, 2013 | Corporate Counsel

Until recently, legal departments havent had a specific role or individuals with the expertise to help general counsel deliver strategic value. Enter the Legal Operations Executive.

By Connie Brenton

4 minute read

August 08, 2011 | National Law Journal

Legal departments have begun to unbundle tasks so as to assign the right resources to the right work.

By Connie Brenton and Danny Ertel

7 minute read