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Knowledge is Power – and Powerfully Efficient: Law departments deploy KM systems to leverage valuable information assets

“Doing more with less” is increasingly the mantra that corporate law departments are living by. A recent survey by Thomson Reuters found that reducing outside legal spend and managing limited internal resources are two of the top challenges cited by general counsel and decision makers...

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Discovery

Gain Confidence by Controlling E-discovery: Law Departments Should Insist on Solutions that Deliver Clear Pricing Info

In this #ThrowbackThursday article, Steve Schneider from Thomson Reuters talked about how corporate legal departments are continually under pressure to control their costs.

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E-Discovery Wish List: What attorneys want in the next generation of e-discovery tools

E-discovery processes have become, and will invariably continue to be, increasingly costly and burdensome for attorneys and their teams. Greater volumes of data are being produced every second, more sources of discoverable data are appearing more often, such as mobile devices and social networks,...

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New Tool, New Efficiencies: Practice Point brings together the best of Westlaw and Practical Law to streamline legal department work flows

As demand increases for counsel to handle more work in-house while also better managing outside counsel, there’s a clear need for greater efficiency in handling matters. One avenue for achieving this goal is by streamlining those in-house workflows, especially as counsel are asked to take on...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

Making CR Relevant to Your Organization

In recent years, we’ve all heard of corporate “pinkwashing” – a term used when a business supports breast cancer awareness by selling pink products without making any significant contribution to cancer research. While I can’t argue a business’s intent when...

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Board of Directors

In Today’s World Of Imperfect Regulation, The Smart Compliance Money Goes To Strategic Risk Mitigation

Recent news headlines share common themes and raise cautionary flags for harried legal, risk and compliance professionals: The 2014 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded to a professor whose career has been focused on the premise that financial markets and most industries are...

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Regulatory & Compliance

Volcker Rule Update

On December 6, 2013, five federal financial regulatory agencies – Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (FRB); Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC); Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC); Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC); and Commodity Futures Trading...

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