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For many employers in the United States and United Kingdom, talented workers from outside the US or Europe, respectively, are essential to the continued success of the business. However, numerous considerations must be taken into account, and sound legal advice taken, each and every time a non-domestic worker is ...
With technology, a legal department can speak with a single voice, think with a single mind, and act like a partnership even with lawyers dispersed around the world. Consultant Rees W. Morrison discusses 20 techniques that increase coherence and effectiveness in a spread-out department.
About a dozen major corporations, including Prudential Financial, DuPont and Microsoft, pledged Thursday to spend $30 million in 2010 on minority- and women-owned law firms as part of a new commitment called the Inclusion Initiative. In-house lawyers at DuPont and Prudential hatched the idea and recruited in-house lawyers at other ...
Over the course of two days, InsideCounsel magazine comes to life through more than 20 highly interactive sessions providing the corporate legal community with insights and ideas from some of the sharpest minds in law, including keynote speakers Ted Olson, Ford’s David Leitch, Procter & Gamble’s Deborah Platt Majoras, ...
In-housers of New York, this new Meetup group is for you:
Although professional networking opportunities for attorneys abound, few are geared specifically toward in-house counsel. The purpose of this group is to help change that by facilitating discussion and networking among New York area in-house lawyers. The group will enable us ...
More chief legal officers plan to beef up their legal departments this year, according to the results of the Association of Corporate Counsel’s 10th Annual Chief Legal Officer Survey. But it’s not a sign that the economy is recovering and budgets constraints are easing, according to ACC deputy general counsel ...
Congrats go out to Rees Morrison as his excellent Law Department Management Blog reaches new milestones. If you haven’t visited his blog, head over today to see what you’ve been missing.
The next thing you know, they’ll have pastel “jorts” dominating their 2010 Spring line-up:
How low can you go? Levi Strauss has asked that not just about its jeans, but about its outside counsel — slashing the number of law firms that it uses down to just two — one of ...
General counsel for high-risk companies who stay up at night worrying about bribery could take a page from Jay Dalton’s playbook. The now-retired general counsel of Panama-based Willbros Group Inc., an international oil and gas pipeline company, not only helped find employees who were bribing foreign government officials to win ...
Your next in-house counsel job interview may be by video link – so there are a few things you need to keep in mind to ensure you are at top of your interviewing game:
Videoconference interviews are becoming more common as law firms and corporations expand geographically, and as travel becomes ...