This week’s Corporate Legal Operations Consortium Vegas Institute was the largest U.S. conference dedicated to #LegalOps education & networking in 2019, w/ more than 2,000 registered attendees. http://ow.ly/zDjB30oLgtd #CLOC2019 #CLOC2019Vegas CLOC
With more than 2,000 registered attendees, the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium's Vegas Institute is the largest U.S. conference of its kind. ...
We asked the former general counsel of Starbucks, Delta Airlines, AIG and other major companies for their best career advice. Here's what they had to say. http://ow.ly/IRPv30oLdoR
We asked the former general counsel of Starbucks, Delta Airlines, AIG and other major companies for their best career advice. Here's what they had ...
Apparently unhappy with management changes, Caesars Entertainment Corp. general counsel Timothy Donovan has resigned, effective June 6, after 10 years on the job. http://ow.ly/AfxL30oLccl #InHouseTwitter
According to SEC filings, Timothy Donovan had written into his amended employment contract last year that he could resign with certain benefits if ...
Vania Wit, a 2019 SuperConference panelist, spoke with Corporate Counsel about diversity & inclusion initiatives at United Airlines Airlines & a firm’s responsibility in #diversity & inclusion. http://ow.ly/JDjN30oL7Q9
Vania Wit, a 2019 SuperConference panelist, spoke with Corporate Counsel about diversity and inclusion initiatives at United and a firm’s responsib...
The analysis conducted by ndp analytics and funded by the business-friendly ILR found that of the 10% of employment decisions resolved by a decision in arbitration and the 14% resolved by a decision in litigation, employees were 32% more likely to win in an arbitration proceeding, compared to 11% in litigation. The report, which ILR touts as the largest study of employment dispute resolution, is based on an analysis of nearly 100,000 employment arbitration cases and federal court cases that ended between 2014 and 2018.
https://www.law.com/corpcounsel/2019/05/16/want-to-win-in-an-employment-dispute-for-workers-study-says-to-arbitrate-not-litigate/
A study released Thursday found that of the 10% of employment decisions resolved by a decision in arbitration and the 14% resolved by a decision in...
Catherine Leung Kar-cheung has been charged with two counts of offering an advantage to an agent. Her legal woes stem from an alleged bribery scheme involving the chairman of an unnamed logistics company and his son. http://ow.ly/5XNt50ufqfq
Catherine Leung Kar-cheung, ex-vice chairwoman of JPMorgan Securities’ Asia-Pacific investment banking business, faces two counts of offering an...
"You can’t just focus on numbers and the initiative has to be presented to the department and to the internal client as an effort you want to initiate because it makes good business sense. There has to be an appreciation that one of the key reasons you’re doing it is because you get better quality work product, you build better relationships and it is important for us as a company that when we have representatives from firms seeing our face that they are reflective of who we are." http://ow.ly/3s7650ufq3q
Vania Wit, a 2019 SuperConference panelist, spoke with Corporate Counsel about diversity and inclusion initiatives at United and a firm’s...
Lisa Brown, Starbucks Corp.’s legal and corporate affairs operations and strategy managing director, said her department has found success in creating a common lexicon for diversity and inclusion initiatives, and tracking metrics to analyze how new strategies are working.
Starbucks has also had a diversity and inclusion committee since 2002, one that received strong support from the company’s general counsel. Panelists agreed that the inclusion aspect of diversity and inclusion is harder to measure, but it’s a good sign if women and people of color aren’t quickly leaving the company or being left out of leadership.
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Legal operations professionals from Starbucks, Oracle and Northwestern Mutual discussed what's worked and what hasn't in their diversity programs,...
Sigal Mandelker, U.S. Department of the Treasury undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, said the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN, estimates $1.5 billion in funds were stolen in just the past two years from hacking attacks on virtual currency exchangers and administrators used to generate revenues for bad actors and that 47,000 suspicious activities reports, or SARs, have been filed mentioning virtual currency since 2013. http://ow.ly/82My50ufpb8
Sigal Mandelker, U.S. Department of the Treasury undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, said “bad actors are trying to leverage...
Sometimes lawyers may resist change, even when it’s adapted to their needs, Travelers corporate legal ops second vice president Stacy Walsh said. In those cases, pressure needs to come from the top. “You don’t want to play that card, because you want to bring people along because they see the value … but at the end of the day there’s significant power in, ‘because the GC wants it,’” Walsh said. https://www.law.com/corpcounsel/2019/05/16/the-people-side-of-legal-ops-5-takeaways-from-cloc-conference/
On Day Two of the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium, panelists raised the importance of hiring strong talent, nurturing workers inside the...
In a new study on data privacy regulation compliance, about half of the survey respondents whose companies are affected by GDPR revealed they had failed to meet last May’s deadline to comply with the regulations. http://ow.ly/ftMO50ufoMa
Half of U.S. companies included in this new survey missed the GDPR deadline, and 70% said their compliance systems won't adapt to new regulations. Despite those foreboding findings, the majority of companies said they'd could meet the CCPA compliance deadline, which is less than seven months away.
What you eat (or don't), how long you sleep (or don't), the exercise you get (or don't) -- it all affects how you lead. http://ow.ly/fijx50ufdJ5
As corporate counsel, we are not only lawyers but also managers and leaders in a business. Businesses tend to be more successful when its employees are happy and effective.
There is no “hard and fast” corporate law rule on the proper size of the governing board. In its periodic consideration of board size, the nominating committee should be guided by factors that are intended to enhance director engagement and independent board oversight. The general counsel is well qualified to advise the nominating committee on these types of issues. http://ow.ly/gXG650uf9Tk
An exceptional series of recent governance developments warrants a briefing by the general counsel to the board’s nominating committee.
The former GC at a failed New Orleans bank has been sued by a group of creditors who allege he conspired with other former execs to deceive regulators about the bank’s poor financing. http://ow.ly/Mg4J30oKo7t $FNBCQ
Gregory St. Angelo, former GC at First NBC Bank in New Orleans, also faces a federal criminal charge for conspiracy to commit bank fraud stemming f...
San Jose, California-based Immersion Corp. announced that Mike Okada will become general counsel & senior vice president of IP licensing & legal affairs. http://ow.ly/WLDL30oKnNX #InHouseTwitter
According to an SEC filing, Mike Okada will begin his role as the company’s top lawyer June 10.
Despite critics who have challenged the legality of the process, the SEC filed every public company enforcement action in the first half of fiscal 2019 as an administrative proceeding, according to a new report. http://ow.ly/ZW2o30oKnB8 Cornerstone Research
It’s the first time at least since 2010 that 100% of the SEC’s actions were brought before an administrative law judge, according to a new report f...
In the footsteps of Betty Dukes several hundred women across a dozen states or more are filing individual discrimination suits against Walmart, according to Christine Webber, a civil rights lawyer & partner w/ Cohen Milstein http://ow.ly/YAh030oKnly #diversity
The Betty Dukes case still haunts Walmart’s legal department, which is having to deal with the latest round of gender discrimination lawsuits filed...
Senior in-house counsel from Oracle, Gap & Westpac described their legal ops implementation & the values their operations teams have brought in-house. http://ow.ly/Nxwl30oK6Zj @cloc_org @maryshenocarro1 #LegalOps $ORCL $GPS $WBK
Senior in-house counsel from Oracle, Gap and Westpac described their legal ops implementation and the values their operations teams have brought in...
Expert Opinion: No matter what stage of maturity the legal operations team is at, my advice is the same. Here are 6 key ways to ensure your technology deployment is a success. http://ow.ly/GLp430oK1on —Elliot White director of client services at HighQ
If you believe all of the hype surrounding legal tech, you might think that improved efficiency is mere days away if you can just purchase the late...
Expert Opinion: As a leader, you need to master the art of difficult conversations to make them work for you and to earn the trust and respect of those around you. Here's how... http://ow.ly/JcUU30oK1fx Major, Lindsey & Africa
Whether you’re giving bad news to a CEO, firing a subordinate, pushing back on a peer perspective or defending your position from aggressive challe...
The Corporate Legal Operations Consortium will begin beta testing membership for outside counsel in "a couple months," president Mary O'Carroll said at the group's institute Tuesday. http://ow.ly/NEr630oK13W CLOC Mary O'Carroll #LegalOps
The Corporate Legal Operations Consortium will begin beta testing membership for outside counsel in a couple months, president Mary O'Carroll said ...
Kara Gordon joined the Houston-based GE subsidiary Friday as CCO and associate general counsel. http://ow.ly/Fsm250ubYTi
Longtime Dow Chemical chief compliance officer Kara Gordon leaped to Baker Hughes last week, replacing the oil and gas company's retiring CCO....
Preventing a recall, legal experts told Corporate Counsel, begins well before a product goes to market.
It “is about ensuring that the design, development, manufacture and marketing of your product is kept under close scrutiny,” Alison Newstead, a partner/solicitor at Shook, Hardy & Bacon in London, said in an email, adding that keeping a watchful eye on the manufacturing process and quality control measures is also extremely important, particularly when manufacturing is carried out overseas.
“Product recalls often stem from products not being manufactured to specification; both in terms of design and materials,” she said. “Some companies even ‘parachute in’ quality control managers to overseas production plants to ensure that production continually meets the requisite standards.”
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Legal experts talked with Corporate Counsel about what corporate law departments can do before, during and after a product recall or other...
It works like this: After receiving membership to the group, female entrepreneurs or co-founders of a pre-Series B companies are connected with female in-house counsel with at least eight years of experience through a curated networking event. The attorneys provide advice and guidance on how to expand and grow the company. Should the company take off, the lawyer would then potentially sit on the advisory board or have another influential role in the growth of the business, helping both parties. http://ow.ly/uWTG50ubYhv
The group's founders got an enthusiastic response at a launch event at Davis Wright Tremaine's New York offices Monday night.
ICYMI: According to the report, it seems 71% of data breaches were financially motivated and the median amount stolen in a business email compromise scam was $24,439. http://ow.ly/pxjU50ubY17
Cybercriminals are finding it more lucrative to scam executives and get money through business email compromise scams, cybersecurity attorneys say.
ICYMI: Today, GCs are in a position to take a holistic approach to work management, moving beyond simple e-billing and matter management into a comprehensive, data based understanding of the work being performed across the department. http://ow.ly/Qd0j50ubXXh
Work management takes a holistic approach to more effectively manage the law department.
CLOC has identified 12 core competencies that every legal dept must manage to have a “disciplined, efficient, and effective legal function.” GCs rarely have sufficient insight into the effectiveness of these workflows. How can you fix what you can’t see? http://ow.ly/JGDs50ubMqx
Work management takes a holistic approach to more effectively manage the law department.
Amit Shashank, a lecturer at Columbia who had a stint as a corporate attorney at Shearman & Sterling,has been hired as general counsel of biopharmaceutical company Life Biosciences. http://ow.ly/ZEZV50uao2T
Amit Shashank, a lecturer in law at Columbia Law who had a stint as a corporate attorney at Shearman & Sterling, joins Boston-based Life...
When members of the legal department proposed Georgia Justice Project for their pro bono focus, “I was so thrilled,” said Peter Carter, the Delta chief legal officer. http://ow.ly/H9rK50uanIj
Delta Air Lines CLO Peter Carter received the nonprofit's annual Grassroots Justice Award at the Delta Flight Museum for his law department's work...
Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors announced it has hired Bracewell partner Jarvis Hollingsworth as general counsel. http://ow.ly/6AsZ50uanzF
Jarvis Hollingsworth succeeds Kayne’s current top lawyer, David Shladovsky, who has been with the firm since 1997 and also serves as secretary and...
The trial is the third to allege that #Roundup caused someone to get non-Hodgkin lymphoma. http://ow.ly/hPnm50uanmi
The verdict marked the third time that a Bay Area jury has held Monsanto’s blockbuster herbicide responsible of causing cancer in humans.
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#LegalSpeak Podcast: In this clip, Boston University School of Law Dean Angela Onwuachi-Willig shares her mentor story about Kevin Johnson, dean of the UC Davis School of Law. Listen to full episode here http://ow.ly/QPY830n7GIz
Louise Pentland of PayPal is a Co-Legal Leader & a Business Boss Too. This clip she shares what attracted her to PayPal. Watch full video here http://ow.ly/71Xz30kp2lI
The Top 10 In-House Counsel Moves of 2018 (So Far) http://ow.ly/PNQc30jeQVU #legalnews
Ex-American Airlines' GC Describes How the Company Survived Bankruptcy, Tragedy—Gary Kennedy, who was GC of American Airlines btwn 2003 & 2013, has quite a story to tell http://ow.ly/a6ok30iq28h
Video Clip: David Kelly, Golden State Golden State Warriors GC shares the best career advice he has ever received. Watch the full interview here http://ow.ly/gCd630ijoYe #GSWarriors
TOP 3 MOST POPULAR STORIES OF THE WEEK: A Threatening Pose for Bikram Yoga's Former Top Lawyer: http://bit.ly/2ypdEmf Most In-House Law Departments Spend 'Inefficiently,' Study Says: http://bit.ly/2hi9JAR US Steel’s General Counsel to Leave the Company: http://bit.ly/2zwLoQb
THIS WEEK'S MOVES: GC Michal Rosenn out at Kickstarter: http://bit.ly/2zMXY0t Florian Drinhausen is stepping in at Deutsche Bank: http://bit.ly/2zN5dFT US Steel’s general counsel to leave the company: http://bit.ly/2zwLoQb Lisa Jurinka tapped as new Innovari general counsel: http://bit.ly/2zxVja7
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