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Corporate Legal Eagles Start to Embrace Artificial Intelligence

Legal groups committed to accelerating their digital journey need to find a practical path that balances opportunities with the realities of the organization's current digital maturity, investment budgets and the cultural transformation required.
6 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Corporate Legal Eagles Start to Embrace Artificial Intelligence

  One of the last places you would expect to hear the siren call of the Airbnb or WeChat consumer experience is in a corporate legal…
6 minute read

Delaware Business Court Insider

Court Rejects Fraud-Based and Uncapped Indemnification Claims of Great Hill Partners

In a case arising out of the purchase by Great Hill Partners of Plimus (now known as BlueSnap, Inc.), the Delaware Court of Chancery, after a 10-day trial and extensive post-trial briefing and oral argument, recently rejected all of the fraud-based claims made by Great Hill against the two founders of Plimus.
5 minute read

International Edition

DLA picks off four partners from top Irish firms for new Dublin base

Four partners and three legal directors join DLA's newly launched Dublin base
3 minute read

Delaware Business Court Insider

Del. Judge Weighs Asking High Court to Eye Directors' Liability for Insider Trading in Fitbit IPO

A Delaware judge is mulling a request that would fast-track state Supreme Court consideration of whether directors can be held liable in derivative litigation for trades that were executed by funds under their control.
5 minute read

Corporate Counsel

In-House Counsel: Become a 'Yes, And' Businessperson in the New Year

Whatever word we use to describe what you do for a living, however, here is what nonlawyer clients tend to hear: NO. At many companies, the prevailing view of the law department is still a hybrid of traffic cop and bureaucrat.
4 minute read

The Recorder

Fenwick Survey Finds Smaller Boards and More Dual Stock Structures in Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley 150 companies tend to have smaller boards that meet less frequently than S&P 100 companies, according to a recent survey from Fenwick & West. They're more likely to have dual-class structures.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

How Do You Make Digital Oversight Work in the Boardroom?

If there's one thing corporate boards have heard a lot about over the last few years, it's been cybersecurity. In my engagements as a director and work on governance issues, a day doesn't go by without another briefing that tries to tell board members something new about digital and cyber dangers.
5 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Expect Aggressive Consumer-Related Investigations from State AGs

An upward trend in State AG enforcement actions should put every consumer-related industry on notice; it is a harbinger of what is likely to come in the new year and beyond.
5 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Four Business Trends Likely to Affect Your Corporate Legal Team in 2019

As we move toward 2020, the role of corporate legal and compliance continues to shapeshift in a multi-polar way. Wherever in the world you work, your jobs are more interesting and demanding than ever, and often for different reasons.
6 minute read

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