In-house Legal Operations
Around the house: ABB poaches Holcim’s legal head as latest GC, US firetruck-maker REV Group ends GC hunt
This week’s roundup of top in-house moves also includes appointments at Falcon’s Beyond, S&S Activewear, Amarin and The Oberkotter Foundation
Around the house: Albertsons taps CVS Health for new GC, Coursera promotes deputy GC to head legal team
This week’s roundup of top in-house moves also includes appointments at G1 Therapeutics, Rockland Trust Company, Skyryse and Uplight
GCs dissatisfied with law firms' flexible resourcing, technology says report
Law firms should leverage technology to improve responsiveness and help clients extract value from data, says new report from Simmons & Simmons
Greenwashing risk is only going to increase: Debevoise & Plimpton's Ulysses Smith on the challenges of new ESG rules
ESG guide editor Ulysses Smith discusses the evolving ESG landscape and what that means for clients
How legal departments can partner with their business to lead on ESG
Legal teams should help join the dots on ESG issues across all parts of the business, writes KPMG's Stuart Fuller
More UK in-house teams plan to cut legal spend than most global peers, study shows
Economic worries are higher among UK corporate legal departments, according to a Thomson Reuters survey
Almost half of US lawyers see no rate increases in 2022, Wolters Kluwer report shows
Some 27% of law firm timekeepers saw no increase, while 13% saw average rates go down
GC’s workload crisis – a golden moment for new ways of working?
Bold decisions are required for the effective modernisation of corporate law departments; and now could well be the time to make them, argues Anthony Widdop
Diversity Lab certifies more than 40 in-house teams for D&I efforts
Latest cohort meeting NFL-inspired diversity hiring targets include Ford, Gap and McDonald’s
Verizon appoints chief legal officer as former GC steps up to lead new services business
Vandana Venkatesh becomes CLO while Craig Silliman is promoted to president of Verizon Global Services
Majority of in-house departments not prioritising transformation, study finds
ACC and DISCO survey finds that only 30% of in-house teams are investing significantly in transformation
In-house teams face twin challenge of increased workloads and managing risk, survey finds
More than two-thirds of legal leaders say tackling risk is a top strategic priority, according to LOD and SYKE
LandSec adds two new firms to refreshed legal panel
Gowling WLG and Cripps bag spots as seven firms including Pinsent Masons and Herbert Smith Freehills are re-elected
M&A boom sees in-house teams almost double deal-related legal spend
Transaction advice represents 7.4% of all legal billing in 2021, up from 4.3% a year earlier
BT announces multi-year expanded partnership with managed legal services provider Factor
Agreement includes increased deployment of ‘empowered negotiators’ with remit to take on more complex work
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