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Here's What In-House Lawyers Are Reading Right Now

The week's most popular stories among our in-house counsel readers.
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Law.com

Undercutting the Cost of Underperforming Attorneys

As a firm leader it is your fiscal responsibility to address underperforming attorneys. With COVID-19 are your underperformers flying under the radar? The cost to a firm is not only to the bottom line, but to your reputation as a leader.
6 minute read

International Edition

HSF Sets London Ethnicity Target Amid Global Anti-Racism Initiative Roll Out

The firm has also introduced targets for its Hong Kong office earlier this year.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Temp Workers May Struggle to Find a Regular Desk in Corporate Legal

Temp gigs can often help workers transition into permanent positions inside corporate legal departments, but the pandemic may ultimately be reducing the number of full-time openings that are available.
4 minute read

International Edition

Rihan v EY: The Case that Shook the Big Four and Beyond

Law firms, auditing firms and more are feeling the effects of a case that had wide ramifications in employment law and tort.
8 minute read

Legaltech News

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

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