Heather Nevitt

July 05, 2022 | Corporate Counsel

Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court held that Section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act did not grant the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) the ability to devise emissions caps based on the generation shifting approach the EPA took under the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan.

By Ryan McConnell, Meagan Baker Thompson, and Matthew Boyden

11 minute read

June 24, 2022 | Corporate Counsel

When the European Commission published its final guidance on new standard contractual clauses, it pinpointed several dates for compliance. The guidance took effect on June 27, 2021, and the final day for updating all new contracts was September 27, 2021. In that time, businesses across the European Union have come into compliance with the new SCCs, which in turn have brought them into compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation.

By Zoltan Horvath

6 minute read

June 13, 2022 | Corporate Counsel

Nick is a salesperson. Colin is a lawyer. Together we decided to explore how selling into the legal space can be less challenging and painful and more collaborative and consultative. There is no cure-all for how to make the relationship work, but there are several common themes and approaches that we both have found to be effective.

By Colin Levy and Nick Cegelski

7 minute read

May 26, 2022 | Law.com

This emerging area can be challenging to understand, but even more so for general counsel that are tasked with mitigating any type of potential regulatory or enforcement risk to their company.

By Heather Nevitt

5 minute read

May 18, 2022 | Corporate Counsel

We are asking legal department leaders to complete this short questionnaire. It should take no more than 10 minutes of your time, and as a participant, you will receive a copy of the results at no cost.

By Heather Nevitt

1 minute read

May 18, 2022 | Corporate Counsel

Public companies and their stakeholders often struggle with effective environmental, social and governance programs in the absence of clear and common standards and regulations. But the landscape is rapidly changing in a way that will likely impose new risks and costs on companies.

By David Halbreich, Ben Fliegel and Kya Coletta

6 minute read

May 09, 2022 | Corporate Counsel

Just as in any legal project, monitoring is a continuous event, and Lean Adviser's core methods apply just as well to monitoring employee working wellness: Observation, Evaluation and Correction.

By Lean Adviser

6 minute read

May 09, 2022 | Corporate Counsel

The old paradigm of dropping a 20-pound stack of files on a young associates desk at 4:30 pm on a Friday with no instruction other than "it's due Monday morning" just doesn't fly anymore? Why? It's inefficient. It's wasteful, stressful, and it's demoralizing. This doesn't drive productivity, it drives the talent war.

By Lean Adviser

4 minute read

May 09, 2022 | Corporate Counsel

Real working wellness is about the work itself; the way of doing the work. The question which eats at the stressed associate each morning isn't "what work will I do today" or even "how much work will I do today?" it's always "how will I do the work today?"

By Lean Adviser

6 minute read

April 20, 2022 | Corporate Counsel

As in-house leaders, you know the right legal team can have superpowers. Legal brings reason and analysis to complicated business problems and thrives…

By Ronak Ray

2 minute read