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Zut Alors! Class Actions Have Landed in the EU: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce surveys 10 states
The legal industry has gone global. You already knew that. The proof has been abundant for some time. But if anyone had lingering doubts, a report issued in late March should lay them to rest. It’s called The Growth of Collective Redress in the EU: A Survey of Developments in 10 Member States...
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Backstory: What Happens in Vegas …
Picture this. It’s the cavernous main ballroom at the Aria Hotel & Casino, just off the strip in Las Vegas. It’s an early Wednesday morning in late March, the last day of the annual meeting of the Legal Marketing Association. There’s a buzz of anticipation. It’s GC day!...
Read MoreBackstory: The Millennial Invasion
It sounds like a bad science fiction movie. The people of planet Earth are, as usual, blissfully unprepared for the alien invasion. Spindly, big-headed creatures – legions of them – emerge from their improbable flying machines. They are nothing like us. What are their intentions? Are...
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Civil Justice Playbook: DOJ’s Missed Guidance:Corporate compliance programs would do well to take a long look
The Civil Justice Playbook sometimes cribs its best material from the Criminal Justice Playbook. What follows is a prime example. In early February, the fraud section of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Criminal Division posted a seven-page document that nobody seemed to notice...
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Alt. GC: Survival of the Most Adaptable
In its “2017 Report on the State of the Legal Market,” Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute examines the decade that began with the dawn of the Great Recession in December 2007. For law firms, it is not a pretty picture: flat demand, declining productivity, growing expenses...
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Backstory: Reconnect Redux
The Association of Corporate Counsel’s 2016 Law Department Management Report has a bit of a good news-bad news flavor to it. The good news is that law departments continue to gain “greater access to the inner sanctums where decisions are made,” as ACC puts it in its executive...
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Civil Justice Playbook: Hail the New Litigation Hell
There’s a new sheriff in lawsuit land. Displacing California, ranked as the top Judicial Hellhole three of the last four years, is the city of St. Louis, Missouri, which topped the annual Judicial Hellholes report released last month by the American Tort Reform Foundation (ATRF). The #1...
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