Anyone who thinks that legal tech is the exclusive territory of big firm lawyers should think different. When it comes to innovation, even general counsel do not like to watch from the sidelines. And in fact there are internal legal departments that regularly use technology to perform different functions. Among these, for example, there is […]
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Wendy Hufford has seen it all. Well, almost. She may have started as a lawyer in a big New York law firm, but she soon turned to life in-house. Hufford took a job in the in-house legal department incubator at The General Electric Co., which has sent its alumni into legal departments across the globe. […]
Resist the charm of the Old Continent? That’s a mission impossible for American in-house lawyers. After 25 years of activity in Europe, conducted through the valuable help of volunteers spread across the area, at the end of February the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC)—a global legal association representing more than 45,000 in-house counsel employed by […]
How many in-house counsel are there in Italy? Our colleagues at inhousecommunity.it asked Raimondo Rinaldi, general counsel of Esso Italiana and from 2013 president of AIGI, the Italian Association of Business Lawyers. “It is difficult to say precisely but, if we look at countries similar to ours, like France, we can assume that there are […]
If you had to choose an adjective for his job—this lawyer is responsible for the legal affairs in Italy of one of the largest brewery groups in the world—Massimiliano Colognesi would indicate “dynamic”. “My priorities change during the day, normally my schedule begins at eight o’clock in the morning, when I turn on the computer, […]
