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The American Lawyer

Ropes & Gray Launches Data Analytics Consulting Arm

The new R&G Insights Lab is, in part, a response to regulators pushing for companies to make greater use of data in their compliance activities.
3 minute read

Texas Lawyer

COVID-19 Pandemic Is Creating Important Tax Implications for Those Working From Home

During the pandemic families have had to shelter in place and both parents and adult children have been forced to work from home. Given the lack of…
11 minute read

The American Lawyer

DLA Piper Is Latest to Outsource Back Office Ops in New Deal With HBR

Four DLA Piper employees have moved to HBR Consulting under the agreement—part of a resurgence in outsourcing activity among the country's largest law firms. 
3 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Pandemic History and the Generation of Law

In a famous 1975 lecture before the Collège de France, the philosopher and social theorist Michel Foucault proposed that the plague of the mid-1300s…
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Four Ways in Which COVID-19 Will Change the Legal Profession

Predicting how the COVID-19 pandemic will impact the legal industry, particularly over the longer haul, may be foolhardy, especially since there surely are many twists and turns ahead we cannot foresee. Nonetheless, I will give it a shot.
11 minute read

Daily Business Review

Why Some Rainmakers Won't Be Altering Their Tactics During the 'Great Lockdown' Recession

A new group of highly efficient rainmakers has emerged. They've adopted the professional client development tactics of top management consulting firms and now accomplish 99% of their offline networking and selling virtually, not in person.
6 minute read

The American Lawyer

EY Outlines Its Strategy in Legal and Approach to Servicing Law Departments

EY's goal is to become an enterprise legal service provider to law departments, blending tech, law and consulting to serve clients' business needs.
10 minute read

Corporate Counsel

When Overlapping Directors Sit on Boards With Opposing Governance Policies

At least one overlapping director is a former in-house counsel. James Johnson, retired general counsel of Loop Capital Markets and former assistant GC at the Boeing Co., sits on the board of Ameren Corp. and of Hanesbrands Inc.
6 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Deepwater Horizon: A Decade of Legal Impacts

Ten years on, the lasting impacts of the Deepwater Horizon incident are still reverberating across the Gulf of Mexico states and industry and government more broadly.
13 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

NJ Lawyer-Lobbyists Saw Big Payday in 2019, See Uncertainty For 2020

"Regarding the ballot question on marijuana, if we had spoken a month and a half ago, I would have predicted record spending," ELEC executive director Jeff Brindle said. "Now with the pandemic, it will be interesting to watch."
14 minute read

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