Cost-Cutting Clients Look To Bring More Work In-House Next Year
Sixty-six percent of legal department respondents looking to cut back on outside counsel.
When It Comes To In-House Work, It’s A Legal Operations World And We’re All Just Living In It
Data privacy doesn't excite businesses the way it should.
Skills That Set Firms Apart
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Legal Tech Advertising Lights Up Vegas
Not a niche market anymore.
Addressing The Weakest Link In Data Security… The Law Firm
ACC program provides clear answers for clients worried about data.
Technology Emerges As Top Concern For In-House Counsel
And yet, in-house lawyers don't seem in a rush to invest in tech solutions.
Morning Docket: 11.28.18
* Dr. Christine Blasey Ford says that she's used some of the money in the GoFundMe account started by her supporters for security costs after her sexual assault testimony against then-Judge Brett Kavanaugh, but plans to donate the rest of the funds to trauma survivors. [Fox News] * Of course Justice Department lawyers are going to appeal the ruling blocking the Trump administration's new asylum restrictions and of course they want that ruling to be put on hold while the appeal is pending. Let's keep teargassing kids while we're at it. [CNN] * Paul Manafort's lawyers sure are acting strangely in the wake of new allegations from Robert Mueller. "You would expect them to be a little more bold and say, ‘This is untrue, he has cooperated,’" but that's not what seems to be happening. [Daily Beast] * "We’re very keen to do something in the U.S." Hot off a three-way merger, U.K.-based CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang is looking for yet another merger partner, but this time, the firm's leaders are looking across the pond. [ International] * Sorry if you were planning to lateral up the in-house food chain from a Biglaw firm, but according to this survey from the Association of Corporate Counsel, most GCs were born and bred in corporate law departments. [Corporate Counsel]
Reasoning, Tool Calling, And Agentic Systems In Legal LLMs
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Backstage With Wolters Kluwer At ACC
When in Austin, do as.
New Law School Rankings, The Plight Of The Managing Partner, And In-House Work In The #MeToo Era
A recap of the last week.
In-House Counsel Turn Their Nervous Eyes On The Courts
In-house lawyers try to navigate troubled courthouse waters.
Courts Split On LGBTQ Questions, Leaving In-House Counsel Flummoxed
The federal courts are confused over discrimination law. In-house counsel should stay above that fray.
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Did A Biglaw Firm Really Build Its Own Video Game?
All the best swag from #ACCAM17.
Understanding The Lawyer Generation Gap, Or Millennials Are Way Too Obsequious
How can you trust these Millennials?
From Doghouse To In-House
Being corporate counsel is a more coveted position than in dinosaur days -- and with good reason.
4 Red Flags At In-House Interviews
Think about these things as you apply for an in-house job; they may spare you a couple of years of misery.
In-House Legal Budgets And Compensation: Survey Says….
In-house lawyers are responding to today's challenges in interesting ways -- and earning more money, too.