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Eight in 10 executives doubt their company's ability to handle legal risk

Eighty percent of company executives have little or no confidence in their organisation's ability to manage emerging legal risks, according to a new survey of senior business figures. The finding is one of a number of results drawn from a survey of CEOs, senior in-house lawyers and compliance professionals carried out by Berwin Leighton Paisner, which aimed to shed light on how companies are addressing the issue of legal risk – defined by the report as 'the legal aspects of operational risk'.
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Legal Week

Eight in 10 executives doubt their company's ability to handle legal risk

Eighty percent of company executives have little or no confidence in their organisation's ability to manage emerging legal risks, according to a new survey of senior business figures. The finding is one of a number of results drawn from a survey of CEOs, senior in-house lawyers and compliance professionals carried out by Berwin Leighton Paisner, which aimed to shed light on how companies are addressing the issue of legal risk – defined by the report as 'the legal aspects of operational risk'.
6 minute read

Inside Counsel

Litigation: The restrictive covenant and proper formation for enforceability and protection

If a party violates a restrictive covenant, in many cases, getting an injunction is the only practical way to prevent serious, and often irreparable, harm.
4 minute read

Inside Counsel

Litigation: Health care consultants and government enforcement landmines

As in healthcare itself, an ounce of compliance prevention may be worth a pound of financial cure.
5 minute read

Inside Counsel

Proposed cost-shifting in patent infringement cases

Some have raised concerns that non-innovating, non-practicing patent monetization entities use the threat of patent litigation costs to extract nuisance settlements on meritless claims.
4 minute read

Inside Counsel

Former Countrywide exec faces mortgage fraud allegations

The government claims Countrywides Hustle program hustled Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac out of $131 million, and its looking for damages.
5 minute read

Inside Counsel

JPMorgan settles with Commodity Future Trading Commission in new “London Whale” deal

The CFTC probes were an attempt to uncover any negligence within the management chain responsible for the incident, but will now be halted.
2 minute read

International Edition

Litigation funder in talks with 30 UK firms over hybrid DBA model

Litigation funder Burford Capital has launched a new form of hybrid damages based agreement (DBA), offering to share risk with law firms. In what the company claims is a first for the UK legal services market, the 'Burford Hybrid DBA' allows firms to strike a private risk-sharing agreement with the funder, thereby circumventing lawyers' concerns over the regulation of direct DBAs with clients.
2 minute read

International Edition

Veteran Bird & Bird patents partner crosses Atlantic for WilmerHale

Bird & Bird intellectual property (IP) partner Trevor Cook has resigned from the firm after 32 years to join US outfit WilmerHale's New York office. Cook was co-head of the Bird & Bird's international lifesciences group. He joined the top 20 firm as a trainee solicitor in 1974 and was made up as partner in 1981.
2 minute read

Inside Counsel

Tech companies turning to inter partes review for IP challenges

What if there was a way to fight contested patents without ever going to court? Using inter partes review, your wildest dreams could become reality.
2 minute read

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