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ABA Business Law Section to Present Program on Maximizing the Value of Corporate Legal Services
The Corporate Counsel Committee of the American Bar Association’s Business Law Section is presenting a CLE program at the Business Law Section’s Annual Meeting. The program is co-sponsored by 39 additional Committees of the Business Law Section. The program is entitled...
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Publisher's Note July 2016
Welcome to our annual July-August double issue where we focus on two interrelated areas, risk and cybersecurity. We are also pleased to present our usual broad array of topics of keen interest to GCs and their teams. You’ll find insightful takes on ADA compliance for company websites (p.10),...
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Backstory: GCs Take Matters Into Their Own Hands – Literally
Altman Weil, a management consultancy dedicated exclusively to the legal industry, kicked off its “Law Firms in Transition” survey on the heels of the Great Recession. Now in its eighth edition, the survey, released earlier this month, reveals a frightening gap between lawyers and...
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Backstory: Rebel with a Cause A talk with Ben W. Heineman, Jr.
For Ben W. Heineman, Jr., the heart of the matter is tension. In his nearly 20 years as the top legal executive at General Electric, Heineman redefined the role of the GC in the modern corporation. The key to a GC’s success, he says in his indispensable new book, “The Inside Counsel...
Read MorePublisher's Note June 2016
The June issue of Metropolitan Corporate Counsel offers wonderful new developments and features. As we pledged in the last issue, we will continue to offer our readers more of a voice within the paper and on our website. In our cover feature, an interview with Megan Belcher Vice President &...
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GCs Share Cyber, Data Privacy Risk Insights in Candid Exchange
As part of a 2016 series examining global risk, Metropolitan Corporate Counsel convened a roundtable on April 20 at Le Bernardin in New York to discuss legal issues related to cyber and data privacy. It was the first of four planned dinners on the broader topic of global risk that the publication...
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Publisher's Note May 2016
Our goal in publishing Metropolitan Corporate Counsel and its various digital offshoots is to provide readers, most of them senior legal executives at major companies, with news and information that holds special appeal for them. That may be because it shines a light on legal and business issues...
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