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Corporate Counsel

Tina Tchen Urges Companies to Keep Up Diversity Training, Despite New Trump Order

Diversity training is "not something that's a threat. It's something that's been part of progress," Tchen said.
3 minute read

Legaltech News

Legal Departments Are Rolling Out E-billing Tools—But Are Firms Buying In?

A Wolters Kluwer virtual ELM Amplify panel held Wednesday examined the threat that rolling out a new e-billing tool can pose to an otherwise healthy outside counsel relationship. While those solutions are often implemented to enforce billing guidelines, some firms may be find ways around compliance.
3 minute read

Legaltech News

Tech Speak is the New Legalese When Negotiating With Software Vendors

A virtual panel from the Association of Corporate Counsel's Annual Meeting examined how knowing the true meaning behind key tech phrases can be the difference between success and failure when negotiating deals with vendors around software procurement or data handling.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Innovative Legal Departments Want to Know 'What's Everybody Doing?'

Major, Lindsey & Africa hosted a webinar titled "The Digital Transformation Imperative" on Thursday that looked at some of the key motivators driving legal department innovations. Chief among them was a desire to find out how attorneys are spending their time and where outside spend is going.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Milton Mollen Annual Moot Court Competition

The Moot Court Honor Society of St. John's University School of Law held its annual Milton Mollen Moot Court Competition virtually Oct. 7.
1 minute read

Daily Business Review

Attorney of the Year Finalist: Boies Schiller's Sigrid McCawley Fights for Jeffrey Epstein Victims

Boies Schiller's Fort Lauderdale co-administrative partner worked pro bono representing 10 victims of millionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
4 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

Corporate Counsel

No Budget, No Problem? Legal Ops Still Juggling Internal and External Resources

In a session titled "No Budget, No Resources, No Problem: In-House Leaders on Finding Innovative Solutions in the 'New Normal,'" speakers shared how they kept costs down while still maintaining a standard of quality for the work coming out of their department.
3 minute read

Texas Lawyer

'The Organ Thieves' Exposes the Nasty Wound of Racism in the Medical System Toward Black Americans

Texas Lawyer spoke with Chip Jones about his new book and how racially biased attitudes fit a broader pattern of discriminatory behavior toward Black patients in the 1960s.
9 minute read

International Edition

The Legal Innovation Awards 2020: Who Won What and Why

A total of 23 entries won at this year's Legal Innovation Awards, including Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner and Mills & Reeve.
11 minute read

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