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Corporate Counsel

Harassment Reports Up Amid #MeToo Movement, New Data Shows

Have the allegations against Harvey Weinstein encouraged more survivors of workplace harassment to speak out? Looks like it.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Microsoft CLO Announces 'Shared Innovation Initiative' to Boost Collaboration, Protect IP

"There is growing concern that without an approach that ensures that customers own key patents to their new solutions, tech companies will use the knowledge to enter their customer's market and compete against them—perhaps even using the IP that customers helped create," CLO Brad Smith wrote in a blog post.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Transportation Blockchain Platform DAV Hires New General Counsel

Tung Chan's varied in-house career has taken her from insurance, to an airline, to blockchain firms.
2 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Companies Should Get Execs, Board Members More Involved in Cybersecurity, Survey Says

"Just because you have initials or a title following your name doesn't mean you are less vulnerable," said Elizabeth Litten, a partner at Fox Rothschild, the firm that put the survey together.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Want to Know Which Legal Spend Management Initiative to Try Next? Enter the Matrix.

A new primer offers a "matrix" that can be used as a tool for in-house lawyers who want to identify the right tactic to help reduce legal spend.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

After MyFitnessPal Breach, In-House Counsel Should Consider Segregating Sensitive Data

This week's hack holds a simple but important lesson for legal departments about how to handle data storage.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

In-House Counsel Want 'Appropriate Fee Arrangements,' Data Can Help Them Get There

"I've never met a lawyer who hired a contractor to build their house depending on how long it takes to build it," Cisco deputy GC Steve Harmon said of changing discussions about fee arrangements.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

CLOC Cybersecurity Initiative Gives Legal Departments System to Judge Outside Counsel Data Defenses

The Corporate Legal Operations Consortium is in the midst of designing a framework that will help corporate legal departments better evaluate how well firms can protect valuable client data, and give firms real standards to shoot for on cybersecurity.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

ALSPs Coming-of-Age Is Putting In-House Counsel in the Driver Seat of Industry Restructuring

Given lawyers' predilection for precedent, the probability of a corporation outsourcing to an ALSP depends on the number of corporations who've already done so.
8 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Former Lyft Government Relations Lawyer Scoots Over to CLO Seat at Transportation Startup

Former Lyft vice president of government relations David Estrada is heading over to Bird, a "last mile electric scooter rental service."
2 minute read

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