Jennifer Williams

September 02, 2016 | Corporate Counsel

Avvo Inc.'s online fixed-fee legal service violates ethics rules related to advertising and splitting fees, a recent South Carolina bar advisory opinion found. Not surprisingly, Avvo general counsel Josh King disagrees.

By Jennifer Williams-Alvarez

6 minute read

September 01, 2016 | Corporate Counsel

A patent lawyer's opportunities to find work in-house are far fewer than their opportunities to work at a law firm, a new survey confirms. Less than 24 percent of patent attorneys work in-house, according to recent findings from online platform Patexia Inc.

By Jennifer Williams-Alvarez

6 minute read

August 30, 2016 | Corporate Counsel

A number of companies are moving away from the billable hour, favoring alternative fee arrangements instead. At BASF Corp., not only is an AFA preferred, firms are required to present such an arrangement for review.

By Jennifer Williams-Alvarez

6 minute read

August 18, 2016 | Corporate Counsel

In what may strike some as a surprising ruling, a judge has blocked Zara from seeing files its former GC, who is suing for discrimination, stored on a company laptop.

By Jennifer Williams-Alvarez

14 minute read

August 16, 2016 | Corporate Counsel

Most in-house lawyers could only dream of taking months off to do volunteer work. But the pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline PLC is allowing its lawyers to do exactly that—and even paying their salaries and travel expenses.

By Jennifer Williams-Alvarez

6 minute read

August 15, 2016 | Corporate Counsel

In advance of a tech summit in Madison, Wisconsin, Tesla associate general counsel Keith Witek was interviewed by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel about how companies are being affected by the rapid pace of technological advancement.

By Jennifer Williams-Alvarez

3 minute read

August 12, 2016 | International Edition

GlaxoSmithKline's long-running campaign to eradicate the billable hour is paying off

By Jennifer Williams-Alvarez, Corporate Counsel

3 minute read

August 12, 2016 | International Edition

GlaxoSmithKline's long-running campaign to eradicate the billable hour is paying off

By Jennifer Williams-Alvarez, Corporate Counsel

3 minute read

August 11, 2016 | Corporate Counsel

Some in-house lawyers are crying foul over the IOC's rules around putting Olympians in advertisements.

By Jennifer Williams-Alvarez

9 minute read

August 09, 2016 | Corporate Counsel

A recent ruling against Dick's Sporting Goods serves as the latest reminder that in-house counsel should be wary of so-called browsewrap agreements, which seek to impose terms on users without asking them to click an "I accept" button.

By Jennifer Williams-Alvarez

6 minute read