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Radical Transparency: What Is Your Company Doing About It?
The Snowden and Manning affairs illustrate that we have entered an era that a contributor to this month's issue describes as one of “radical transparency” in which a corporation’s most confidential assets are vulnerable. Such assets may range from intellectual property to...
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Corporate Counsel Take Note – LPM Tops Agenda Of Legal Marketers
On Thursday, May 16, the New York Metro Legal Marketing Association met in New York City to hear a distinguished panel discuss Legal Project Management. LPM is a subject of great interest to corporate counsel because it encourages law firms to adopt a disciplined approach to the matters they...
Read MoreAtlantic Legal Foundation Advocating For The Business Community
For 36 years, the Atlantic Legal Foundation has been participating in cases and causes important – indeed, critical – to the health of the business community. The cases it undertakes reflect the Foundation’s mission: advocating for free enterprise, limited and efficient...
Read MoreThis Year’s Proxy Season: The Good News And The Bad News
We’re writing to you this month as an editorial team. In looking over this month’s editorial content, we can report that no topic inspired livelier debate than the roles of the corporate secretary and of those deeply involved in governance. Especially intriguing are the kinds of...
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Reducing Legal Department Budgets May Be Short-Sighted
Given today’s economic climate, most companies are asking their legal departments to find ways to reduce their budgets. While this may simply be a knee-jerk reaction, general counsel need to be prepared to address the issue, such as by demonstrating that budget reductions would result in...
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Saudi Arabia’s Four New Economic Cities
Saudi Arabia has led the way in developing pristine new cities devoted to specialized industries through a proposed public/private endeavor. The intent is to have the government serve as regulator, facilitator and promoter while private industry would provide capital, land ownership and...
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Diversity Is Not Self-Executing – It Needs Advocates. DuPont's Pioneering Role In Sustained Advancement Of Diversity Initiatives
The inauguration was all about diversity. The mass of people crowded into the Mall reflected the diversity of our country. Those addressing them from the podium carried out the diversity theme. The most profound truth that the President uttered in his address was that “What makes us...
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