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Why Legal Operations Matters and How to Optimize Its Impact

Legal operations managers optimize the larger legal supply chain matching up a portfolio of supply to the company's portfolio of legal needs to meet strategic business objectives.
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Corporate Counsel

Legal Operations: Why It Matters and How to Optimize Its Impact

Legal operations managers help legal departments get the most out of their budgets, vendors and technology. They optimize the larger legal supply chain matching up a portfolio of supply (e.g., law firms, alternative service providers, consultants and in-house teams) to the company's portfolio of legal needs to meet strategic business objectives.
5 minute read

Delaware Business Court Insider

CBS Investor Sues for Access to Report, Docs Related to Moonves Ouster

The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in Delaware Chancery Court, alleged it was "common knowledge" among board members that Moonves had committed repeated acts of sexual misconduct "before and throughout" his tenure as chief executive.
5 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Owner Participation in Tortious Conduct of LLC: The Potential for Individual Liability

This is one participation trophy you do not want.
8 minute read

Delaware Business Court Insider

Schnatter, Papa John's Settle Del. Lawsuit Over Control of Pizza Chain

The agreement, filed this week with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, also requires Papa John's to sever a voting agreement with an activist investor and scrap a provision of its poison pill that prevented stockholders from opposing certain board actions.
3 minute read

Delaware Business Court Insider

Del. Courts Highlight Risk of 'Void' Provisions in Alternative Entity Agreements

These decisions highlight the powerful effect, and potentially unintended consequences, of using a “void” provision in the governing documents of Delaware alternative entities.
6 minute read

Delaware Business Court Insider

Chancery Denies Books-and-Records Inspection Due to Lack of 'Credible Suspicion'

Stockholders who seek to inspect the books and records of a Delaware corporation to investigate mismanagement merely have to demonstrate a “credible suspicion” that officers or directors have breached their fiduciary duties.
5 minute read

International Edition

The Transfer Window: Hires For DLA Piper, Pinsents and KPMG

All the latest moves at top international and City firms.
4 minute read

Delaware Business Court Insider

Investors Sue Over Alleged Adviser Conflicts in $218M Tesla Acquisition

The class-action complaint, filed by Maxwell investor Davis Rodden, targeted the company's board and sought additional discloses about Barclays Capital Inc.'s current and prior engagements outside of the all-stock deal, which was announced last month.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Pa. Supreme Court Tackles Attorney-Client Privilege Issues in Derivative Cases

This column previously analyzed the Commonwealth Court's decision in Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation, and its potential impact on the attorney-client privilege in derivative litigation. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court subsequently granted petitions for allowance of appeal in the case.
8 minute read

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