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Corporate Counsel

Survey: In-House Counsel Face Significant Challenges with ESG Efforts

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.
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Corporate Counsel

Vaccine Mandate Hesitancy Fades Amid Delta Outbreak, New Federal Guidance

Earlier this year, Gartner found that 8% of global companies planned to require employees to be vaccinated for COVID-19 before returning to the office. In a new survey, the number has jumped to 46%.
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Corporate Counsel

Build Your Network, Plan Ahead and Listen Up: Experienced GCs Offer Advice to Newbies

A new report offers insights from more than 150 seasoned legal chiefs on what they learned from their first GC roles and what they wish they'd known when they reached the top of the legal department.
4 minute read

International Edition

Ranked: the Biggest Law Firms in Africa

The research, in conjunction with Africa Legal, features new entrants including ASAFO & Co in ninth place.
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International Edition

How Did UK Top 50 PEP Growth Outstrip Profit Gains?

Three law firm chief financial officers discuss what drove the huge leaps in PEP figures, against less impressive profit gains.
4 minute read

Law.com

Office Reopening Plans Spurred Uptick in the Filing of COVID-19 Employment Lawsuits

Fisher & Phillips' COVID-19 Employment Litigation Tracker cited nearly double the number of lawsuits related to the COVID-19 pandemic from June 1 through Aug. 31, when compared to the same period in 2020. A large share of the lawsuits allege that employers did not accommodate employees who wanted to work remotely.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Confidence in Risk and Compliance Programs Grows, Despite Lack of Resources

A new survey suggests that programs are maturing rapidly, but weak points remain.
4 minute read

Law.com

Consumers Filed Fewer Lawsuits in 2020, New Report Says

A report released on Thursday by Lex Machina, a unit of LexisNexis, found that consumer protection filings in federal court, including data breach class actions, dropped to 12,922 from 14,432 in 2019, even though the COVID-19 pandemic created some new cases.
3 minute read

Property Casualty 360

Smaller companies, remote work reveal cyber vulnerabilities

Ransomware demands increased nearly threefold during the past 12 months, while less sophisticated intrusion techniques were deployed.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Participate Now in Our 2021 Law Department Compensation Benchmarking Survey!

The purpose of this survey is understand how America's top corporations are compensating their in-house legal staff.
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