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Corporate Counsel

Growing Health Care Finance Company CarePayment Hires New GC

Brian McCarthy—a former health care GC with a specialty financing background—will serve as senior vice president and general counsel at Nashville, Tennessee-based CarePayment.
2 minute read

National Law Journal

Making Lawyers Happier; Ty Cobb's Millions; Dentons Departures

The mental state of the legal industry was on the agenda at an ABA conference in Washington. Also in this week's Washington Wrap: Lots of lawyer moves, and how much did Ty Cobb really give up when he left Hogan Lovells to work for President Donald Trump?
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Law Firms Must Be Proactive to Prevent Cyberattacks

In the past few years, major law firms, including Cravath Swaine & Moore and Weil Gotshal & Manges, were victims of cyberattacks. In addition, more than 11.5 million files from Mossack Fonseca, the world's fourth largest offshore law firm, were stolen because the firm failed to take the necessary steps to protect its confidential data, including updating the security of its web servers.
9 minute read

The Recorder

Do You Need a Technical Degree to Make the Switch From Commercial Litigation to IP?

Would a technical degree make you more marketable for IP litigation opportunities in the market today? Yes. Particularly if you possessed an electrical engineering (EE) or computer science (CS) degree.
3 minute read

The American Lawyer

With Help From New Law, This Legal Department is Firing its Outside Counsel

Univar Inc. is working with Elevate and a new Elevate-affiliated law firm to find new ways of doing legal work that it claims will result in 50 percent savings for its $10.5 million legal budget. "Law Land is not special," said Univar's general counsel.
7 minute read

Legaltech News

Maybe AI Can't Do Everything, but Corporate Legal's Still Trying to Adopt

Legal operations directors from Walmart and Nationwide gave their artificial intelligence adoption strategies at the 2018 CLOC Conference.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Corporate Counsel's Insider Guide to the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro took the helm of the Attorney General's Office (OAG) in January 2017. Since his election, the OAG has been extremely active in conducting investigations and filing lawsuits in matters affecting a multitude of businesses and industries.
6 minute read

Legaltech News

Contracts Are More Than a Document: Finding the Value in Your Data

A 2018 CLOC panel explored how to use data like contracts and intellectual property to drive company value outside of common legal work.
6 minute read

Legaltech News

Mitratech Acquires ThinkSmart to Expand Legal Operations Offering

The in-house technology company hopes that the new workflow automation tool can help organizations scale their legal operations management.
3 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Law Journal's Legal Departments of the Year, GC Impact Winners Announced

In-house lawyers play what's often a more behind-the-scenes role, but it's a vital one. As we honor New Jersey's litigators and dealmakers for their…
2 minute read

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