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Corporate Legal Departments Can Benefit from Insourcing—Even During a Recession

Many organizations may not want to change during an already-painful time. But organizations that don't seize this opportunity to re-evaluate the insourcing/outsourcing question may multiply their pain in the mid- to long- run.
6 minute read

Law.com

Why It 'May Take a Full Generational Transition' to Shift Perception of ALSPs

In this Q&A for its Breaking Tradition series, Law.com catches up with Lucy Bassli, founder and principal of InnoLegal Services and former assistant general counsel at Microsoft. She tells why she went "irregular" out on her own, and why transparency and trust are important in alternative legal service provider relationships.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

'The Game Is Different': How Can General Counsel Manage All This Change?

"I've had some very hard conversations with team members I basically inherited. Some made it. Some did not," said AccuWeather Inc. general counsel Jennifer Chung.
4 minute read

Law.com

Accounting for the Coronavirus

This article examines challenges facing accountants due to economic and financial stress increasing at the same time that oversight may be relaxing, provides insight into the question of whether we should expect a rise in accounting manipulations, and concludes with comments on mitigating hindsight bias.
20 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Legal Departments Are Spending too Much Time on Unplanned COVID-19 Work

"Twenty percent of the time spent on unplanned work is wasted," said Vidhya Balasubramanian, managing vice president in Gartner's legal and compliance practice. "That's over a thousand work hours in a year at a typical $1 billion company with 10 full-time employees in the legal department."
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Wanted: Midlevel In-House Attorneys Who Can Communicate With Business Partners Alone

"No one should complain that the business calls too much," John Gilmore, co-founder and managing partner at BarkerGilmore, said. "That is when the promotional opportunities come; when GCs hear from the business."
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Working With Coronavirus: How In-House Leaders Cope With More Pressure, Few Resources

One GC for a tech startup worked long hours while self-quarantined in her bedroom with COVID-19. Another hoped to hire more staff for her legal department but got contract management software instead.
9 minute read

Law.com

Companies May Be Refreshing 'Bring Your Own Device' Policies During COVID-19

Employees using their own laptops or other devices when working from home may be necessary at the moment, but companies and legal departments may be looking for ways to minimize the rapidly expanding risk surface involved.
3 minute read

International Edition

Hogan Lovells Continues Industry and Regional Leadership Shake Ups

The shake-up follows various changes earlier in 2020, ushered in by new CEO Miguel Zaldivar.
2 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Top Lawyer Appointments on the COVID-19 Rebound: June 2020 In-House Moves

Now with the economy opening up, albeit some places like California and Texas closing again over the increase in the novel coronavirus cases, companies look more comfortable to let the public know about a new legal leader.
28 minute read

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