The legal department of the UniCredit Group, led by Gianpaolo Alessandro (pictured), has partnered with the law firms NCTM La Scala to create UniQLegal, an initiative that was created to meet specific banking industry legal services needs. In particular, the project will center on managing bank litigation and giving legal advice. The ultimate aim for […]
The world of service providers for legal departments and law firms continues to be in a state of flux. The latest sign? Atrium, which provides legal services for startups, is changing its business model. Co-founder
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Allianz Risk Barometer 2020: Cyberthreats are the most feared risk
For the first time, cyber threats represent the most perceived corporate risk globally (39% of responses), leaving business interruptions in second place (with 37% of responses). This is what the Allianz Risk Barometer 2020, the 9th annual survey
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African-American GC group announces initiative to identify and train in-house
The Black General Counsel 2025 Initiative has launched its website, www.BlackGC2025.com, part of an Initiative in identifying all African American in-house counsel currently working in Fortune 1000 and large private companies It’s part of
If one sentence could sum up legal practice in the English-speaking world this year, it would be this quote from The Leopard by the Sicilian novelist Giuseppe Tomaso di Lampedusa: “If we want things to
The First Chairs Club of the firm Kilpatrick Townsend recently presented a discussion entitled “In-House Lawyers’ Expectations of Outside Counsel.” Participating were in-house lawyers Shola Omojokun (labor and employment counsel at Chick-Fil-A, Inc.) and Adriana
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Norton Rose’s litigation survey: In-house counsel fret about a downfall,
The law firm Norton Rose Fulbright conducts a survey of in-house counsel each year about litigation. And while the usual worries about cybersecurity are up front, there’s an additional wrinkle. This year’s respondents
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You’re driving your outside firms crazy with the billing guidelines
It’s not exactly a secret that clients—that means you–are more demanding of their firms these days. They want alternative billing, secondments, educational sessions, among other things. And they’re paying a lot
This may be the least surprising but one of the most important pieces of news: Law firms spend hundreds of thousands of dollars every year on advanced technology. But they’re falling down on the
Canada, not usually a laggard when it comes to rules, is about to catch up with the United States when it comes to encouraging lawyers to be tech-savvy. Some 12 years after the American Bar Association
