Corporate Governance
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Continuing Legal Education / CLE, Sponsored Content
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. -
Continuing Legal Education / CLE, Sponsored Content
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. - Sponsored
How Generative AI Is Disrupting Law Firm Billing Practices
Amid legal landscape shifts, billing practices remain vital. With generative AI enabling faster, more efficient work, some law firms may adjust billing models accordingly. -
Sponsored Content, Technology
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.
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Legal Operations
Corporate Information Governance: Whose Job Is It Anyway? (Part II)
Leadership in IG and the handful of things you need to do right. -
Legal Operations
Corporate Information Governance: Whose Job Is It Anyway? (Part I)
Legal operations professionals need to lead the conversation and get stakeholders to the table. -
Due Diligence, Mergers and Acquisitions, Sponsored Content
Not Just The Numbers: Integrity Due Diligence
This process exceeds the scope of strictly financial matters. -
Biglaw, Job Searches
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. -
General Counsel, In-House Counsel
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. - Sponsored
The Smartfirm Playbook - Thriving In Today’s Legal Landscape
Strategically using software and automation to boost efficiency and streamline operations, allowing for a laser-focus on practicing law. -
Finance
OCC Report Highlights Wide Range of Potential Risks
The OCC’s most recent report on current key risks should be read by all banks, regardless of size or regulator, as a road map in preparing for the next examination. -
In-House Counsel, Technology
Top Five Governance & Compliance Hot Topics For General Counsel
On September 18, 2014, InsideCounsel magazine held a corporate counsel conference to facilitate discussions on current legal issues. In sessions on governance and compliance, industry experts addressed the current top challenges that in-house attorneys face when managing enterprise risk. Cybersecurity is no longer just a “technology” issue. It has become a business and legal issue. Compliance and management personnel must be trained and informed on the impact that cybersecurity risks present to the business. Companies must have a business response, not just a technical response, prepared for when something goes wrong. The question is not “whether” a cybersecurity issue will arise, but when. -
Biglaw, Books, Facebook, Federalist Society, General Counsel, Hedge Funds / Private Equity, In-House Counsel, Law Professors, Morning Docket, Murder, Musical Chairs, Partner Issues, Politics, Social Media, Social Networking Websites, Tax Law, Technology
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]
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In-House Counsel
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. -
Enron, Law Professors, Music, Rap, Sarbanes-Oxley / Sarbox / SOX
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 […]
Sponsored
The Smartfirm Playbook - Thriving In Today’s Legal Landscape
LawPay Pro Offers Upgraded Time And Billing Essentials
How Generative AI Is Disrupting Law Firm Billing Practices
Sponsored
How to Achieve Quicker, More Valuable Case Settlements with Minimal Effort: A Guide for Personal Injury Lawyers
InterAction+ Brings Power Of CRM Software To Law Firms Of All Sizes
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Bad Ideas, Document Review, Technology, United Kingdom / Great Britain
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 […]