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Civil Justice Playbook: This Court Means Business
In this column, we talk a great deal about reform of the civil justice system. It was a topic near and dear to the heart of MCC’s founder, Al Driver, who as former General Counsel of JCPenney had a very special interest in the subject. Search the archives of MCC on our website and you’...
Read MoreBackstory: A “Watershed Year” for Legal Ops
A year ago this month, I wrote a column in this space about the state of legal operations in corporate law departments. It was called “Suddenly, Legal Operations Professionals Are ... Sexy.” Yes, I was being a little cheeky, but the point was clear. The legal operations field...
Read MorePublisher's Note April 2016
It is hard to believe that a year has passed since we introduced our new design of Metropolitan Corporate Counsel. We have received many compliments from readers and contributors – and for that we are incredibly grateful. Our goal here at MCC is to deliver our readers the highest quality...
Read MorePublishers Note March 2016
Our March issue shows just why MCC readers have been so loyal for so long. Where else can you find interviews and articles as relentlessly relevant to today’s corporate law department? Nowhere. A good example is this month’s cover interview featuring Orrick partner Wendy Butler...
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Civil Justice Playbook: Corporate America Loses a (Sometimes) Champion in Scalia
When we heard of the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, our first instinct was to reach out to the Washington Legal Foundation, a public-interest law firm and policy outfit that focuses on “free enterprise” issues on the radar of our in-house readers. The WLF is engaged in many of these...
Read MoreBackstory: Atticus Finch is Toast
In his latest book, “The Future of the Professions,” Richard Susskind, the celebrated legal tech guru and provocateur, joins forces with his son, Daniel, a lecturer in economics at Balliol College, Oxford, to chart the decline of the professions. While Richard has generally focused on...
Read MoreBackstory: A Concrete Opportunity
In his 2015 Year-End Report on the Federal Judiciary, Chief Justice John G. Roberts uses the 1838 publication of a rule book for dueling to frame his extraordinary exhortation on the amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure that took effect on December 1.“Our Nation’s courts...
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