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March 24, 2014 | Corporate Counsel

To find out what's truly valued by clients, one must ask the client. And every individual with whom the firm has a relationship at any given organization may have a different answer.

By Silvia Coulter

4 minute read

March 24, 2014 | Corporate Counsel

In the last few decades, business leaders have had to consider one more factor that has been growing in significance: Intellectual property. Companies now see IP, especially patents, as keystones of business architecture.

By Rich Steeves

8 minute read

March 24, 2014 | Corporate Counsel

Chances are, if you are a female in-house counsel, you have come face-to-face with the difficulty that exists in aspiring to attain a legal leadership position by embarking on a career trajectory within the confined culture of a law firm with old-fashioned roots.

By Erin E. Harrison

14 minute read

March 24, 2014 | Corporate Counsel

Defendants need to keep an eye on developments coming from individual cases and state legal changes to properly defend themselves from the risk of class action lawsuits.

By Chris DiMarco

7 minute read

March 24, 2014 | Corporate Counsel

Legal teams will need to continue to build their strategies to proactively account for not only the possibility of procedure change, but to be flexible in the face of growing and divergent volumes of information.

By Chris DiMarco

7 minute read

March 24, 2014 | Corporate Counsel

Data security is more important than ever, and, especially in light of recent high-profile breaches, companies need to take data security compliance seriously.

By Rich Steeves

13 minute read

March 24, 2014 | Inside Counsel

With this news, the Swiss financial company will join the virtual whos-who of big banks that have agreed to shell out in response to government pressure provoked by mortgage issues.

By Chris DiMarco

2 minute read

March 24, 2014 | Inside Counsel

The case moved up the ladder to the Federal Circuit, which overturned the District Courts ruling. This, of course, means that Googles Street View may, in fact, infringe on the Vederi patents.

By Rich Steeves

5 minute read

March 24, 2014 | Inside Counsel

Todays law firms need to adopt innovative ways of dealing with processes in order to keep up with the ever-changing environment and keep clients coming back.

By Amanda Ciccatelli

6 minute read

March 24, 2014 | Inside Counsel

A meeting was recently held with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in Washington DC about this very topic. The meeting helped the EEOC understand exactly how social media is being used in the office and what impact it may have on the laws enforced and on the mission...

By Amanda Ciccatelli

3 minute read