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Corporate Counsel

Corporate Trends Reshaping Legal Departments

The corporate world has never moved faster. According to a study published in the Harvard Business Review, one-in-three companies will be delisted in…
6 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Making the Most of the Role: Advice for New General Counsel

Here are four important pieces of advice that will not only help prospective GCs prepare for the role before they ever reach the C-suite, but will also help those already in place excel in the dual role of legal adviser and business manager.
12 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Chart: The Top Paid GCs of 2016

Cash is king here: Our ranking of the highest-paid general counsel is based on total cash compensation in 2016. But most of these lawyers received big equity payouts too.
1 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Would You Be Uber's Next GC? We Asked

The troubled ride-hailing company is in need of a new general counsel.
8 minute read

Corporate Counsel

CLOC: Legal Ops Leaders at the Vanguard of a Movement

More legal departments are seizing the opportunity to implement legal operations programs to lower spend and increase efficiency. Amid this legal ops movement, one organization, the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium, has emerged as both a catalyst for change and an ongoing example of the movement's success.
6 minute read

Legaltech News

GC Data Sharing Plan Is 'Wake-Up Call' for Law Firms

A group of 25 general counsel announced a plan to share and analyze data on the law firms they use and the outcomes they achieve, which elicited both trepidation and excitement.
6 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Will the Legal Profession Make Room for Legal Ops?

Legal operations has been around for years, decades even. But the movement appears to be having a moment. Though implementing new technologies and processes to drive operational change has often not been the focus of the majority of legal departments in the past, there is now discussion that legal ops professionals may soon become commonplace at companies.
25 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Flexion Therapeutics Hires Its First General Counsel

Flexion Therapeutics Inc. has named Mark Levine as its first general counsel and senior vice president. Levine has more than 20 years of corporate legal experience, having previously served as GC at Minerva Neurosciences Inc., assistant GC at athenahealth Inc., and associate GC at Clinical Data Inc., according to his LinkedIn profile.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Uber's Legal Department Drives Forward Without Travis

Legal consultants and private-practice attorneys say Uber's legal department needs to sort out a reporting structure and how to handle the Covington report without former CEO Travis Kalanick there to lead.
5 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Uber's Legal Department Drives Forward Without Travis

Travis Kalanick's unexpectedly swift, full departure from Uber Technologies Inc. as chief executive has punched yet another hole in a company left…
5 minute read

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