Strictly Business

JANUARY 25, 2024

These are types of business due diligence that help the buyer determine the value of the business and business risks associated with acquiring and owning the business. Importantly, the buyer will also want to confirm you have rights to the assets you represent as owning and uncover potential liabilities associated with the business.

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InHouseBlog

JANUARY 2, 2022

These jobs range from pure TELECOMMUTE jobs, to jobs presently remote that may go on-site at a later time, to flexible hybrids that vary from company to company. More and more companies are recognizing that they can operate effectively in a work from home world, and this can bring tremendous benefits to both employers and employees.

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InHouseBlog

AUGUST 6, 2023

I recently had a conversation with a CEO about the value of a General Counsel. His company has significant revenue and recently received venture capital funding. The legal function is handled by a combination of the CFO and outside counsel. Does the Company Need a GC? Many companies ask the same question: Do we need a GC?

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The federal government intends to get tougher on corporate polluters that endanger “communities of color and low-income communities,” warns the head of the Department of Justice Environment and Natural Resources Division (ENRD). Cases that protect the integrity of renewable energy programs by pursuing fraud and similar violations.

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

UPDATED 3/04/2024 On March 1, 2024, a lower Alabama federal court held that the Corporate Transparency Act, which requires certain businesses to file a BOI Report with FinCEN that includes information about their beneficial owners, is unconstitutional. General partnerships and proprietorships are not subject to CTA reporting requirements.

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ALPS

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Underwriters in the legal malpractice insurance space often exercise caution when reviewing applications of firms that have one or more attorneys serving as an officer or director of a for-profit, non-profit, or closely held corporation. Insurance companies that do this well will remain in business and continue to grow.

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InHouseOps

MAY 24, 2023

Outside Counsel Guidelines (OCGS) are commonly used these days, but comprehensive and clear guidelines are hardly universal. In this piece from Corporate Counsel Business Journal, Brenda Hansen, a senior consultant with Epiq who has drafted many OCGs, offers useful advice for developing effective guidelines.

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CARET Legal

APRIL 19, 2024

Understanding billing format standards is key for professionals in corporate law, insurance defense, or those looking to join fields heavily reliant on e-billing. LEDES, or the Legal Electronic Data Exchange Standard, is a leading format designed to standardize billing communications between law firms and corporations.

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Strictly Business

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

On January 1, 2024, previously enacted federal legislation called the Corporate Transparency Act (the “CTA”) went into effect. The CTA aims to assist law enforcement in tackling money laundering, tax fraud, terrorism financing, and various other illicit activities facilitated by anonymous shell companies.

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

A new report found in-house leaders' technological competence recently dropped significantly, and the Association of Corporate Counsel Foundation is partnering with Ethisphere to help companies measure how their diversity, equity and inclusion programs are working.

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FDA Law Blog

MARCH 6, 2024

On March 20-21, Counsel John W.M. John counsels FDA-regulated entities on litigation, enforcement, and compliance matters including FDA inspections, Form 483s, Warning and Untitled Letters and Consent Decrees, internal investigations, and data privacy concerns. Just up the road in Boston on March 20-21, HP&M Associate Charles G.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 3, 2023

A friend of mine at that time had also gotten me interested in the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT). Peter Finn of Abt Associates in 1998 published his findings of the evaluations he made on three Offender Employment programs in Texas, Chicago, and NYC. In Canada, Sociologist Stephen W.

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InHouseBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

The Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) and Exterro, the leader in Legal GRC software, once again partnered on an in-depth survey of in-house legal departments, this time producing the 2023 Legal Technology Report for In-House Legal Professionals. Key Takeaway #1: Legal technology is now a must-have.

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InHouseOps

JUNE 11, 2021

The Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) has unveiled its 2021 Value Champions, recognizing a dozen law departments, and their outside partners, for using technology and data to optimize legal services and drive value. “As Moynihan, associate vice president of legal management services at ACC.

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Law 360

JUNE 25, 2021

The New York Mets has fired its general counsel following sexual harassment allegations in what is being seen as a warning for other corporate lawyers, while the Hispanic National Bar Association has created a council to help propel Hispanic attorneys to the GC spot at Fortune 500 companies.

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InHouseBlog

JANUARY 1, 2022

How To Get an In-House Counsel Job and Related Decision-Making. If you are like many lawyers, at one or more times in your life you will ask yourself a simple question: “How do I get an in-house counsel job?” Or are you enthralled by the veritable plethora of remote legal jobs at top companies? Why leave the house?

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InHouseBlog

JANUARY 4, 2022

But in a survey of over 250 in-house counsel and legal operations experts conducted for the 2021 Legal Technology Report for In-House Professionals , 63% said legal technology was a “must have,” 34% said it was “nice to have,” and only 3% said it was “not needed” compared to five years ago.

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InHouseBlog

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

The biggest geopolitical and economic issues of the last year—war in Ukraine, inflation, market uncertainty, and the potential for a global recession—still loom over businesses across the world, but they aren’t stopping the momentum of other forces acting on corporations across the globe.

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Strictly Business

JANUARY 11, 2024

Now, the buyer is ready for its deal counsel to deliver formal due diligence requests to the seller so the buyer can thoroughly assess the seller’s business. The buyer’s executives (like its CTO or CFO), deal counsel, financial advisors, and other consultants all help the buyer assess materials disclosed during due diligence.

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Trademark & Copyright Law

DECEMBER 1, 2021

What does the generalist in-house counsel need to know about copyright? Foley Hoag LLP presented a webinar offering guidance for in-house counsel regarding copyright law, including the basics of U.S. Foley Hoag LLP presented a webinar offering guidance for in-house counsel regarding copyright law, including the basics of U.S.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

In this second of a two-part interview, we continue our conversation with Jeffrey Carr , a trailblazing general counsel who describes his career as decades spent on the radical fringe of reforming legal services delivery. Valorem became the progenitor of ElevateNext, the law firm affiliate of the global law company Elevate.

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The Estrin Report

AUGUST 26, 2021

You can become a generalist or specialize in a legal specialty such as bankruptcy, litigation, real estate, estate planning or corporate. Consulting / counseling / coaching. Consulting / counseling / coaching. A Virtual Assistant can choose two options: you can be an employee for a company or you can start your own business. “I

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LawSites

JULY 12, 2021

If you are wondering where the innovators are in law, look no farther than the Fastcase 50, the annual award doled out by the legal intelligence company Fastcase that honors 50 of the law’s “smartest, most courageous, innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders.”. Haley Altman , Global Head of Corporate Development, Litera.

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LegalTalkNetwork

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

We are a growing network of experts that hail from the American Bar Association, State Bar Associations, Legal Publications, Corporations, and Law Schools. Simpson trial, Erin Brockovich, Dean Strang from Making a Murderer, and general counsels from major corporations including American Express, Verizon, and Google.

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The Estrin Report

OCTOBER 15, 2021

For over 20 years, as a former senior legal officer for a Fortune 50 company, Sheila Murphy successfully developed, coached, and transformed talent in corporate America, and law firms. However, in law school, my focus switched to corporate law because I was a severe introvert with a fear of public speaking. My heart sank.

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LawSites

MARCH 25, 2024

There is a specific need for lawyers skilled in bringing new products and new companies to market. He now has the opportunity “to work as part of a brilliant, diverse, and highly collaborative team of experts who share common goals and values” as Senior Corporate Counsel at Akoya.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Melissa has her Associate’s Degree in Paralegal Technology and a CP designation from NALA. She started it with just an associate’s degree, her paralegal certification, and around 15 or so years of paralegal experience working primarily in personal injury, but with a sprinkling in of some family law, criminal, and real estate.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MARCH 10, 2023

Yesterday, I wrote about the history of the NCAA’s assembling of the rights to an array of trademarks associated with this month’s basketball tournament. Activities that May Result in a Demand Letter from the NCAA The NCAA acknowledges that media entities can sell advertising that accompanies the entity’s coverage of the NCAA championships.

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The Fashion Law

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

The SEC rules that implemented the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 require public companies to have disclosure controls and procedures, which are designed to ensure that the information required to be disclosed by a public company in its Exchange Act filings is recorded, processed, summarized, and reported in accordance with SEC rules.

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LawSites

APRIL 10, 2024

Litera today released a new product that uses generative artificial intelligence to create a database of corporate deal terms from a law firm’s own documents, in order to give legal teams easy access to al relevant data points from prior transactions, whether for negotiating a deal or pitching a potential client.

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LawSites

APRIL 29, 2021

Previous LawX projects have resulted in the development of SoloSuit , to help consumers respond to debt collection lawsuits, and which spun off as a private company , and Hello Landlord , designed to help tenants more effectively communicate with their landlords about issues that can lead to eviction. Addressing Downstream Data.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Yet a 2017 study by law firm Baker McKenzie found that less than a third of companies maintain inventories of trade secrets and have action plans for responding to theft. Even as companies took measures to protect and license their patents, few were paying attention to protecting their trade secrets.

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ALPS

DECEMBER 14, 2021

In all the melee, I noticed that I couldn’t get into my Facebook app and also vaguely noticed an email in my personal inbox associated with said Facebook account. It turns out that the hackers, using my personal account, found their way into our company’s account and attempted to run fraudulent ads on our behalf.

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Patently O

APRIL 25, 2024

Chien , Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and co-director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, and Jillian Grennan , Associate Professor of Finance and Sustainability at the University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business. By: Colleen V. Which professors publish in the top journals?

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InHouseOps

APRIL 29, 2021

The willingness for corporate law departments to adopt technology certainly has increased in this environment. Before early 2020, if you had told corporate legal departments that they could relocate all of their employees to work from home using technology, they would have full on laughed at you.

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LawSites

JULY 7, 2022

Now comes a company that claims to do just that – to predict how a judge will rule, and to do so with an accuracy rate of 86.7%. Is the judge influenced by the prestige of the firm, the law schools of the lawyers, their political affiliations, or the nature of the company? But it only tells you past behavior. Likelihood of Winning.

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InHouseBlog

MARCH 1, 2021

For a couple of decades now, the Association of Corporate Counsel has published the 2021 Chief Legal Officers Survey —a compilation of findings related to the role of the CLO and General Counsel, and their value to an organization. Nearly four-in-five GCs/CLOs report directly to the CEO.

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