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  How to attract and hire a ‘Modern GC’

  Attracting premier legal leaders requires enhancing the responsibilities of your general counsel and raising their profile across the organization. 

  Heather Fine • March 28, 2023

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  Knowing how to push back is key to negotiating commercial agreements

  If you care about five points, try to push back on at least eight matters. That provides room to give in on the three or four extraneous items. 

  David Siegel • March 23, 2023

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  How AI can improve modern contract management

  DocuSign’s legal chief highlights that the more interconnected a contracting workflow is, the more opportunities AI has to learn from the system and accelerate individual steps.

  Jim Shaughnessy • March 20, 2023

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  How legal departments can get the most out of artificial intelligence

  Once you understand that AI is not going to replace human talent, it becomes more obvious that you need the right people to get the most out of the technology.

  Abhishek Mittal • March 15, 2023

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  The benefits of a combined ELM and CLM platform

  For legal teams grappling with more demands on their time and stricter budgets, it’s critical to harness the right resources and connect those resources strategically.

  Aaron Pierce • March 9, 2023

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  Are GCs neglecting the importance of their severance packages?

  There are differing viewpoints in the marketplace as to how much of a sticking point the severance package should be in a negotiation.

  Michael Sachs • Feb. 23, 2023

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  How in-house counsel can navigate pay disclosure laws

  Employers can consider a series of proactive steps to minimize exposure, writes LexisNexis' Elias Kahn.

  Elias J. Kahn • Feb. 15, 2023

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  How to improve the way vendors use your data

  Legal departments should demand that vendors report on data in a way that can be measured and clearly reported, in a format that works with a data visualization tool. 

  Mollie Nichols • Feb. 8, 2023

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  For startups, a smart board strategy can be game-changing

  The FTX debacle illustrates the benefits of creating a formal group of advisors whose experience can help management at young, fast-moving companies avoid missteps as regulatory risk grows. 

  Robert McManigal • Feb. 3, 2023

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  Structuring win-win alternative fee agreements

  Although legal departments should always drive the conversation, law firms should proactively approach clients with innovative fee structures options.

  Kris Satkunas • Feb. 1, 2023

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  How corporate counsel can lead environmental justice efforts

  If your organization is taking a stand to help the disadvantaged against disproportionate climate and pollution impacts, it will need your legal insight to do it right.

  Matthew Karmel • Jan. 24, 2023

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  Recession-proofing: Reduce revenue loss from poor contract management

  Implementing a CLM strategy can serve as a self-funding transformation project by making companies more agile and better able to handle economic uncertainty.

  Rajeev Kumar • Jan. 18, 2023

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  Lawsuit search engines can open window into companies’ legal cases

  By surfacing lawsuits without the commentary, those with an interest in a company can get an objective look at what’s going on.

  Kaylee Zhu • Dec. 21, 2022

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  Managing legal and reputational risks when right-sizing your workforce

  Reductions in force can help lower your company’s operating expenses, but if not undertaken with empathy, they might have the opposite effect.

  Evandro Gigante, Noa Baddish and Melissa Overbeck • Dec. 19, 2022

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  Seven benchmarking best practices for legal departments

  GCs can closely look at their own billing information and use it to negotiate better rates with outside law firms.

  Kris Satkunas • Dec. 16, 2022

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  The Legal and Operations partnership, Part 2: How legal ops should work with GCs

  Mary O’Carroll: A solid relationship with your general counsel defines the level of success you’ll be able to have as a legal ops department.

  Mary O'Carroll • Dec. 6, 2022

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  The legal team of one: A trail map to success

  Legal leaders should strategically drive business growth, not just handle legal issues.

  Tim Parilla • Dec. 2, 2022

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  Embracing the paradigm shift: Enterprise legal management and AI

  AI is not coming for lawyers’ jobs but the most innovative legal departments are bolstering their arsenal with AI-enabled workflow management solutions.

  Nick Whitehouse • Nov. 28, 2022

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  Tackling labor and employment issues with a structured team solution

  For legal departments experiencing or trying to head off attrition, implementing a structured team approach is invaluable.

  Charlie Sandel • Nov. 28, 2022

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  The Legal and Operations partnership, Part 1: How GCs should work with legal ops

  Mary O’Carroll: Even before you make your first legal ops hire, it’s important you level-set the role within your department and position it properly.

  Mary O'Carroll • Nov. 14, 2022

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  The time to start documenting the role of AI in inventions is now

  Patent law precludes AI as inventors, a federal circuit court rules. That reflects international standard, but the issue isn’t going away. 

  Robert Angle and Gerar Mazarakis • Nov. 1, 2022

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  How legal ops can help build a corporate recoveries program

  Unlike defense work, recoveries requires someone to be constantly tending the garden, pushing, pulling and poking to keep things growing.

  Jessica Lynch • Oct. 28, 2022

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  How law firms are helping GCs transform in-house operations

  Outside counsel are differentiating themselves by offering matter management and other technology tools that can help general counsel combine legal success with administrative efficiencies.     

  Sheila Gormley • Oct. 14, 2022

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  Moving past confusion to ensure corporate compliance with privacy restrictions

  There are steps companies can take now, merger and non-merger related, to address data privacy issues.

  Joey Seeber • Oct. 11, 2022

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  Recent trends make the case for digitizing legal matter management

  Inflation, remote work and synchronous tools are driving the rationale for in-house automation.

  Jared Hostmeyer • Oct. 7, 2022

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