Dan Clark

October 14, 2020 | Corporate Counsel

"We have a strong bias towards handling things ourselves. We have really experienced and excellent attorneys. For specific areas, we would speak with external counsel because they had a relationship with someone or there was a particular area of liability that we're not familiar with under a different regulator," Craig Katerberg, general counsel of Anheuser-Busch, said.

By Dan Clark

5 minute read

October 13, 2020 | Corporate Counsel

"We expect that the social part of [ESG] will be important through 2020 and into 2021," Paul Davies, a partner at Latham & Watkins, said. "Climate change will again increase in importance. But we're starting to see a better balance between the three than we ever have before."

By Dan Clark

4 minute read

October 09, 2020 | Corporate Counsel

"It is true that employment law, compliance, and environmental health and safety issues boost the demand for outside counsel, but legal departments oversee these functions and relationships," Veta T. Richardson, CEO of the Association of Corporate Counsel, said in an email.

By Dan Clark

3 minute read

October 08, 2020 | Corporate Counsel

"Involving the right people at the right time really helps outside counsel get to what they're looking for. I'm not trying to stop them from billing us, I want to help them get what they're looking for quickly and efficiently," Katie Lynch, director of legal support at Veolia North America, said.

By Dan Clark

3 minute read

October 07, 2020 | Corporate Counsel

"In reality suspending all data transfers from the European Union to the United States impacts virtually every U.S. and European company and is not practical legally or economically," Mark Faber, vice president, corporate counsel, cyber and privacy law at Prudential Financial in Newark, New Jersey, explained.

By Dan Clark

3 minute read

October 06, 2020 | Corporate Counsel

"The general counsel can say here is a plan to tackle that. It requires a bit of an investment, but the return on investment will be that the average time from shaking hands on a deal from inking the contract will be reduced by a month," said Jonathan Brayne, a partner at Allen & Overy in London.

By Dan Clark

3 minute read

October 02, 2020 | Corporate Counsel

"We thank Randy for more than 40 years of service to the company, most recently as our general counsel," ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods said in the press release. "Randy has made significant contributions to ExxonMobil throughout his career, and we wish him all the best in his retirement."

By Dan Clark

2 minute read

September 30, 2020 | Corporate Counsel

"We choose to come together in this moment in the hope we can drive more substantial impact for our industry together than we might achieve individually," the letter states.

By Dan Clark

3 minute read

September 29, 2020 | Corporate Counsel

"There is definitely a trend in clickwrap litigation that mirrors e-commerce transactions that take place online. If there are more transactions taking place, it means there is going to be more of an opportunity for class actions to be brought," Brian Powers, CEO of PactSafe in Indianapolis, said.

By Dan Clark

3 minute read

September 28, 2020 | Corporate Counsel

"What if the consumer says 'Delete all of this?'" Bill Piwonka, chief marketing officer of Exterro, said. "That's easy enough until you start thinking about whether some of that data is under a regulatory mandate to be held for three years or if that data is being used in a lawsuit and is under legal hold."

By Dan Clark

3 minute read