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Securities Experts Address The Changing Regulatory And Enforcement Landscape
Leading securities practitioners discuss this year’s Institute on Securities Regulation, which includes around 20 panel discussions on the hottest securities regulatory and corporate governance topics.
Product Spotlight: Lexis® Verdict & Settlement Analyzer
Put away the guesswork—Lexis® Verdict & Settlement Analyzer helps legal professionals assess case potential with confidence by using data-driven insights from the industry’s largest collection of verdicts and settlements.
ESG Gains Momentum: What Lawyers Need To Know Now
Companies, their boards, and regulators are increasingly focused on ESG (environmental, social, and governance) risks and opportunities. Now is the time to learn about this quickly evolving landscape.
Want Easy And Efficient Entity And Equity Management? It’s Time To Try Diligent
Learn how your organization can centralize, manage, and effectively structure your corporate records to improve entity governance and better ensure compliance.
Corporate Information Governance: Whose Job Is It Anyway? (Part II)
Leadership in IG and the handful of things you need to do right.
Corporate Information Governance: Whose Job Is It Anyway? (Part I)
Legal operations professionals need to lead the conversation and get stakeholders to the table.
Labor and Employment Federal Litigation Trends 2026
Drawing on more than a decade of data, the report equips law firms and corporate legal teams with actionable insights to better assess risk, refine strategy, and anticipate outcomes in today’s evolving workplace disputes.
Not Just The Numbers: Integrity Due Diligence
This process exceeds the scope of strictly financial matters.
10 Things To Know About Capital Markets And Corporate Governance Practice
Welcome to Better Know A Practice Area, a new monthly series introducing readers to different practice areas.
In-House Counsel Take On More And More Responsibility, But Is That A Good Thing?
Companies are increasingly moving the general counsel directly into business decision-making and eroding those lines between legal and executive management.
Morning Docket: 05.13.13
* Given the name and origins of the Tea Party movement, it actually makes perfect sense that their groups got grief from the IRS. [Washington Post] * Wachtell Lipton weighs in against the practice of shareholder activists offering special compensation to director nominees. [Dealbook / New York Times] * A law professor, Joshua Silverstein, argues that schools should embrace grade inflation. (But haven’t most of them done this already?) [WSJ Law Blog] * Facebook shareholders might not “like” this news, but Ted Ullyot is stepping down as general counsel after almost five years. We’ll have more on this later. [National Law Journal] * The Brooklyn DA’s office is reopening 50 murder cases that were worked on by retired detective Louis Scarcella (who looks oh-so-savory in the NYT’s photo of him). [New York Times] * In news that should shock no one, Nicholas Speath’s dubious discrimination case against Georgetown Law has been dismissed. [The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times] * Not long after leaving Cravath for Kirkland, Sarkis Jebejian is putting together billion-dollar deals for private-equity clients. [Am Law Daily] * Professor Jeffrey Rosen reviews an interesting new book, The Federalist Society (affiliate link), authored by Michael Avery and Danielle McLaughlin. [New York Times]
Opus 2 Steps Up Its AI Game With Acquisition Of A Legal Tech Startup
With the addition of Uncover’s technology, the litigation software is delivering rapid innovation.
Inside Straight: What’s The Difference Between A Lawyer And A Doctor?
What's the difference between a lawyer and a doctor? In-house columnist Mark Herrmann explains.
Because Sometimes You Just Need to Rap About the Law
It’s the end of October, and you know what that means: law school finals are lurking. As law students begin to hunker down and make sweet, sweet love to their outlines and flashcards, others are busy thinking up more clever ways to study the same materials. Visual learners think that drawing pictures will help them […]
Many Corporate Boards Are Pretty Much Waiting to Get Hacked, Report Says
At this point, the lengths companies go to in order to protect data, keep it secure, and prepare for e-discovery is old news. Data breaches — and the news coverage that usually follows — have frightened many companies into at least attempting to ratchet up data security policies. Likewise with retention practices. There have been […]