Heather Nevitt

June 21, 2021 | Corporate Counsel

Like today's most successful executives are aware, successfully practicing the art of leadership is less about exercising individual talent these days, and more about one's ability to steer a workforce's collective capabilities and expertise towards achieving a common goal.

By Scott Steinberg

7 minute read

June 21, 2021 | Corporate Counsel

In an upcoming series of articles for Corporate Counsel Advance, Lucy Bassli will share her insight on steps legal teams can take to reduce the challenges of increasing contracting volumes and limited capacity to scale. Below is an introductory Q&A on her background and an overview of the guidance the series will provide.

By Lucy Bassli

4 minute read

June 17, 2021 | Law.com

An increase of workload and responsibilities on in-house counsel is begging the question: Is going in-house no longer a greener pasture?

By Heather Nevitt

7 minute read

June 14, 2021 | Corporate Counsel

My brother, Joe, was a trial lawyer. He died of cancer at age 65 two years ago this month. I miss him terribly. And I'm thinking of him because I am thinking of the many lawyers I've worked with as clients, or known as friends or relatives, who were linked together by a common problem, the topic of today's article.

By Jim Dolan

5 minute read

June 14, 2021 | Corporate Counsel

The "Leaders of Legal" conversation series turns its focus "inside out" in Episode 3: exploring how general counsel known for their internal counseling prowess are changing the game as external advocates for their clients: lobbying before governmental bodies, protecting reputational status, and directing the enterprise's regulatory agenda.

By Susan Hackett and Andrew Dick

5 minute read

June 10, 2021 | Corporate Counsel

In-house counsel may be "frustrated" or "annoyed" by ever-increasing associate pay, but will continue to pay what is necessary for bet-the-company work.

By Patrick Smith, Phillip Bantz and Dan Clark

3 minute read

June 09, 2021 | Corporate Counsel

As part of ALM's Legal Operations Series, I will be sitting down with Connie Brenton, Chief of Staff and Senior Director of Legal Operations at NetApp Inc. and former founder and CEO of the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC), to discuss ways legal departments are learning from the pandemic and how they are looking to legal ops going forward to help pivot operations to be more efficient and connected to the business.

By Heather Nevitt

2 minute read

June 08, 2021 | Corporate Counsel

It's becoming increasingly difficult for corporate legal departments to lure talented attorneys away from their lucrative positions in Big Law. As a result, many in-house counsel have begun focusing more on recruiting from other law departments.

By Zack Needles

7 minute read

June 07, 2021 | Corporate Counsel

Communication is key in any relationship. And your relationship with your outside counsel is no exception. What you want and need is tailored, focused information, which is packaged in a way you can bring to internal stakeholders to help you communicate an issue or industry-specific risk.

By Lean Adviser GC

4 minute read

June 07, 2021 | Corporate Counsel

Despite surveys noting that 99% of organizations admit that being data-driven helps convey competitive advantage, and as popular a professional tool as data visualization has become for today's market leaders, shockingly, roughly nine in ten businesses still admit that managing this data remains a challenge.

By Scott Steinberg

4 minute read