Trudy Knockless

October 15, 2021 | Corporate Counsel

"A focused and expert-supported approach is the key to achieving quick wins and sustained transformation," said Deana Uhl of FTI Consulting.

By Trudy Knockless

3 minute read

October 14, 2021 | Corporate Counsel

"We're seeing GCs having to be responsible for a lot outside of just legal now. A big trend with this pandemic has been to turn the GC into the chief health officer," Kristie Robertson, Analyst, ALM Intelligence Pacesetter Research, said.

By Trudy Knockless

4 minute read

October 14, 2021 | Corporate Counsel

"When you're in private practice, you have a group of clients, and you try your best to know all you can know about those clients and to learn their business. But there's a limit to how close you can get to the business because the business model doesn't allow for that," Bloom Credit General Counsel David Breland said.

By Jessica Mach | Trudy Knockless | Phillip Bantz

5 minute read

October 13, 2021 | Corporate Counsel

"I think what a lot of us have had to do is take a couple of decades of D&I commitment and translate that into the moments of last summer," one panelist said.

By Trudy Knockless

6 minute read

October 06, 2021 | Corporate Counsel

Office automation—the design, management, execution and automation of legal tasks, workflows, processes and decision-making, based on predefined rules—is now a common in legal departments.

By Trudy Knockless

3 minute read

October 06, 2021 | Corporate Counsel

The M&A firm for the Stephens family of Little Rock, Arkansas, has hired as general counsel a former executive with the investment firm for Walmart's founding family.

By Trudy Knockless

1 minute read

October 01, 2021 | Corporate Counsel

"I'm very conscious of lack of diversity in settings that I'm in, and if you bring me to the table I'm not going to be ashamed or afraid to discuss it," Libbey General Counsel Lois Elizabeth Bingham said.

By Trudy Knockless

7 minute read

October 01, 2021 | Corporate Counsel

A survey of 134 in-house counsel and other senior business executives nationwide found that the three most pressing ESG concerns in the next year were data collection/verification, ESG regulatory activity and staffing.

By Trudy Knockless

3 minute read

September 28, 2021 | Corporate Counsel

First Internet Bank, a branchless financial institution growing at a blistering rate, has hired one of its outside attorneys, Dustin DeNeal, to serve as first vice president and counsel.

By Trudy Knockless

2 minute read

September 28, 2021 | Corporate Counsel

Citigroup Inc. has tapped former U.S. Treasury official Brent McIntosh to be its new general counsel and corporate secretary. McIntosh will succeed Rohan Weerasinghe, who is scheduled to retire at the end of the year, after nearly a decade with the bank.

By Trudy Knockless

2 minute read