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Labor & Employment | Litigation

Tracking Workplace COVID-19 Litigation Trends, From Discrimination to Class Action Lawsuits

The COVID-19 pandemic has done a considerable amount for workplace litigation. Peter Wozniak, partner with Barnes & Thornburg, and Mark Wallin, of counsel with Barnes & Thornburg, discuss trends they’re seeing in litigation tracking.

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Legal Operations

Legal Ops: Getting Personal with Legal Innovation

Brendan Miller, Legal Operations Advisor of Practice Innovation, an attorney and former Barnes & Thornburg partner, shares his thoughts on the importance of making innovation personal.

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Competitor Collaboration in the Era of COVID-19

Randy Gordon, partner at Barnes & Thornburg, discusses various ways that the coronavirus pandemic is affecting antitrust laws and government enforcements, especially in the health care space.

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Diversity & Inclusion | Supply Chain Management

The Business Case for a Diverse Supplier Program

Debi Mitchell and Kelly Atkinson of Barnes & Thornburg discuss the wide-reaching benefits of deploying diversity and inclusion outreach throughout a company’s full supply chain.

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Compliance

Creating a Culture of Compliance

In this Throwback piece from 2020, Greg Morical, vice president, general counsel and secretary of Calumet Specialty Products Partners, L.P., and Tabitha Meier, partner and co-chair of the compliance team at Barnes & Thornburg LLP, discuss the various ways outside counsel can help companies get their compliance programs up to snuff.

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Process & Pricing: Using Legal Ops to Improve Law Firm Relationships

The rise of legal operations as an occupation in corporations’ law departments has given rise to legal operations professionals in law firms, resulting in both groups creating synergies to further support better business acumen in their respective firms and law department hierarchies. This interview takes a look inside Barnes & Thornburg’s Legal Operations Department to view what law firms are doing to meet the needs of clients and their legal operations counterparts.

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Department of Justice (DOJ) | General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) | Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) | California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) | Data Privacy

Data Retention, Self-Disclosure and Controlling the Story

How to make sure your company doesn’t run afoul of the FCPA – and the best ways to navigate a government investigation if faced with one.

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