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Corporate Counsel

How Marsh McLennan's Small But Mighty Legal Innovation Team Builds Solutions That Bring Joy

"Everything that we do and we build is…to help our colleagues achieve their dreams," said Farrah Pepper, chief legal innovation counsel at Marsh McLennan.
6 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Aggressive FTC May Force Merging Companies to Bolster Legal Defenses

"Tech companies that enter into deals that raise competition concerns will have to be litigation-ready," said one antitrust expert.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Best Legal Departments: How Blackstone's Legal and Compliance Team Got the All-Clear to Grow Business

"In an era of increasing regulatory expansion and scrutiny, there's a premium on being thoughtful and creative in addressing our risks, as Marshall [Sprung] and his team have been," said Blackstone chief legal officer John Finley.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

CEOs Want Data-Based Risk Management; GCs Lack the Tech to Do So.

"As we see over and over again, the cost of not getting this right can be enormous. Ask BP the cost of not getting risk management and safety protocols right. Or Volkswagen about admissions controls," David Wilkins, professor of law and faculty director at the Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession in Cambridge, Massachusetts, said. "These are not just liability costs, but reputational costs."
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

InCloudCounsel Hires First GC to Continue Expansion in Asia

Luke Ruse spent the last 11 years of his career working at Kirkland & Ellis and was made partner at the firm in 2014.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Former Apple Privacy, Security Lawyer Joins Mayer Brown

Vivek Mohan joined Mayer Brown on Tuesday as a partner in the firm's cybersecurity and data privacy practice based primarily in Palo Alto, California.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

UnitedLex Fishes 5 New Hires From Big Four Talent Pool

UnitedLex announced Tuesday that it had made five new management-level hires hailing from Big Four members Deloitte and PwC. The move comes as the service provider anticipates a new urgency around legal departments' digital transformation and looks to bulk up on the technical talent and experience necessary to address those needs.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Will Future Legal Departments Spend More on Tech, Less on Lawyers?

"We're reaching a point where there's going to have to be a much more dramatic investment in legal technology," said Zack Hutto, director of advisory in Gartner's legal and compliance practice.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

As GCs Bring E-Discovery In-House, This E-Discovery Provider Wants to Help

Legal services company Epiq launched its new consultancy service Tuesday.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Veolia Legal Director Shares What Outside Counsel Should Expect in E-Discovery Process

"Involving the right people at the right time really helps outside counsel get to what they're looking for. I'm not trying to stop them from billing us, I want to help them get what they're looking for quickly and efficiently," Katie Lynch, director of legal support at Veolia North America, said.
3 minute read

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