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Corporate Counsel

How Corporate Legal Departments Are Shifting to Profit Centers

A new report from Burford Capital suggests that "companies are on the cusp of a paradigm shift in how they approach legal assets," and will begin to focus more on generating revenue through litigation.
3 minute read

International Edition

Which Firms Have the Most LGBTQ+ Lawyers in the UK?

More than 50 firms took part in the UK diversity ranking, which found 5% of lawyers and 3% of partners identify as LGBTQ+.
2 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Patents, Pending Patent Applications and Notice Letters

Regardless of your strategy to protect your intellectual property, the content and timing of notice letters are important issues to consider before giving notice to potential infringing competitors.
6 minute read

International Edition

Rankings Reveal Which Law Firms Have The Most Black Lawyers in the UK

One year on from the death of George Floyd, a survey of more than 50 top firms shows which have the highest proportion of Black lawyers and partners.
4 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Connecticut Court Speed Update: These Areas Have Most Crowded Dockets Amid Pandemic

"Every business around the country, not just ours, was affected with a backlog," said Joseph Greelish, director of performance management, quality assurance and judicial branch statistics for Connecticut.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Diversity and Inclusion Now Tops Priority List for Corporate Legal Departments

Launching a D&I program was the top-ranked issue in this year's legal ops survey from the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium. Last year, D&I ranked fifth out of seven priority categories.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

As COVID-19 Spiked, So Did Corporate Litigation and GC Legal Spend

Nearly half of all U.S. and Europe-based respondents in a new in-house survey said they faced more corporate legal disputes last year. Their legal departments, and spending on outside counsel, grew accordingly.
4 minute read

Property Casualty 360

Supply chain attacks rose 42% in Q1

As a result of widespread breaches, the number of individuals impacted grew more than 560%.
3 minute read

Legaltech News

ROSS's 'Westlaw Monopoly' Claim Rings True—and Hollow—With Legal Research Market

While some legal research companies agreed with ROSS's latest court claim that Thomson Reuters legal research platform Westlaw is a monopoly, others argued that the presence of innovative competition proved otherwise.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Corporate Legal Department Expansion Persists Amid Pandemic, Various Crises

"I think they [in-house leaders] have done more with less for so long that now the more is unprecedented in so many different ways," said ACC president and CEO Veta Richardson.
5 minute read

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