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The Month: Investing in Your Talent

The Month is a Global Leaders in Law monthly magazine with key takeaways, highlights and content driven by our in-house community. For our February edition, we have chosen the theme of 'Investing in your Talent'.
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Corporate Counsel

Asking Diverse Employees to Assimilate Won't Make Them Feel They Belong, Panelists Say

"We have to begin to step away from these preconceived notions of what the appropriate standard is, and be open and willing to invite new thinking, innovative approaches," said Tammy Bennett, a Dinsmore and Shohl partner.
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Unilever Names Next Legal Chief

The current chief legal officer will step down in March 2022.
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Corporate Counsel

Garmin's General Counsel on How He Attracts and Retains Talent

Andrew Etkind, Vice President and General Counsel at Garmin Ltd, discusses how he attracts and retains talent within the in-house team. He also outlines what the notion of vision and purpose means to him.
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JP Morgan Assistant General Counsel Joins Singapore Firm, and Other Asia Moves

Other recent notable hires have been made by Watson Farley & Williams in Hong Kong and Norton Rose Fulbright in China.
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Optimizing the Legal Spend: A Better Approach for GCs

Given the current state of law firm economics and the surge in demand for legal services, those in charge of corporate legal departments would be wise to reframe their fiscal mandates. Instead of looking to take a hatchet to their budgets for outside counsel, GCs should be focused on optimizing the legal spend and viewing their lawyers and law firms as assets to be leveraged. But how can GCs derive a return on their legal spend investments?
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Series on Contracting Challenges: It Is All About the Process

Contracting is all about process for legal teams. Process is vital to improving contract lifecycle management because all contracts go through some form of a life cycle which itself, is a process.
6 minute read

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Law.com Trendspotter: Labyrinthian Outside Counsel Guidelines Are Straining Law Firm-Client Relations

OCGs are becoming increasingly prevalent. They're also becoming increasingly varied and complex, leading many law firms to either waste time trying to reconcile them all or to just ignore them altogether. Needless to say, neither of those scenarios is ideal for a healthy law firm-client relationship.
7 minute read

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Time to Reconsider Training for the Future of the Legal Industry

The pandemic caused a re-evaluation of many traditional beliefs about work, school, and the need to adapt to an ever-changing environment. It also resurfaced conversations within the legal industry on the best way to train lawyers. In this article, we propose changes we believe will improve legal education and create further opportunities for new lawyers.
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Series on Contracting Challenges: Aligning the Right Human Resources to Contracting

The legal department is generally perceived as the "blocker" – slowing down contracting and thus, the business. They are seen as the people to avoid or else, the contract may fall into a black hole... So the question becomes: who in legal does the review?
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