This week’s roundup of top in-house moves also includes appointments at G1 Therapeutics, Rockland Trust Company, Skyryse and Uplight | 1w
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Law firms should leverage technology to improve responsiveness and help clients extract value from data, says new report from Simmons & Simmons | 1w
ESG guide editor Ulysses Smith discusses the evolving ESG landscape and what that means for clients | 4w
Legal teams should help join the dots on ESG issues across all parts of the business, writes KPMG's Stuart Fuller | 1mo
This first edition, written by leading family law and contentious trusts specialists from around the world, provides a highly practical and up-to-date jurisdictional comparison focusing on family asset protection issues in a divorce context on the topics of trusts, pre- and postnuptial agreements, financial disclosure, financial orders, enforcement and, uniquely in any international comparative guide, the extent to which the media can access private financial documentation and information disclosed in family proceedings and generally report on family law cases. | 2w
Economic worries are higher among UK corporate legal departments, according to a Thomson Reuters survey | 2mos
Some 27% of law firm timekeepers saw no increase, while 13% saw average rates go down | 3mos
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 | 6mos
Latest cohort meeting NFL-inspired diversity hiring targets include Ford, Gap and McDonald’s | 6mos
Vandana Venkatesh becomes CLO while Craig Silliman is promoted to president of Verizon Global Services | 7mos
ACC and DISCO survey finds that only 30% of in-house teams are investing significantly in transformation | 8mos
More than two-thirds of legal leaders say tackling risk is a top strategic priority, according to LOD and SYKE | 8mos
Gowling WLG and Cripps bag spots as seven firms including Pinsent Masons and Herbert Smith Freehills are re-elected | 10mos
Transaction advice represents 7.4% of all legal billing in 2021, up from 4.3% a year earlier | 11mos
Agreement includes increased deployment of ‘empowered negotiators’ with remit to take on more complex work | 11mos
Thomson Reuters report calls for renewed effort by legal departments and their outside counsel to collaborate more effectively | 1yr
Ceremony will take place during 10th annual Luxury Law Summit at London’s British Museum | 1yr
Wolters Kluwer study shows US banks paying $620 an hour on average, three times more than insurance companies | 1yr
Some 97% of surveyed in-house counsel believe they have taken on more responsibility within their company’s tech ecosystem | 1yr
Dan Wales has joined the in-house law matter management developers in London | 1yr
The pandemic and fluctuating business environment 'accelerated unprecedented growth in the CLO’s range of responsibilities' says report by Association of Corporate Counsel and Exterro | 1yr
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