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What Metrics Should You Be Tracking?
It’s difficult to improve what you don’t measure. Metrics to optimize operational performance have traditionally been commonplace in most parts of a business, but less so in legal departments – although that trend has been changing as legal departments seek greater efficiency...
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Protect Your Brand In China — How To Navigate The World’s Most Challenging Intellectual Property Landscape
Have you seen the new Budweiser® shoes? How about the Mercedes-Benz® toaster oven? While neither company likely plans to enter the footwear or home appliance markets anytime soon, some enterprising trademark squatters have secured rights to use these brand names in these categories. How...
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How Legal Know-How Can Help Better Manage In-House Work And Outside Counsel
Law departments across the board are facing an unprecedented volume of legal work. Regulatory and compliance requirements are growing across all markets. Globalization is bringing with it everything from complicated intellectual property questions to increasing cross-border transactions. And...
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Transparency Brings New Questions To Compliance
In today’s supply chain, businesses must manage an increasing level of transparency and an emerging, somewhat amorphous set of ethical expectations. This network of emerging risk includes evolving standards around human rights, diversity, consumer protection, social inequality, vulnerable...
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Is Time On Your Side? Improve Efficiency, Increase Productivity
Everyone has the same 24-hour day, but the demands placed on that time are higher than ever before, especially for legal departments. To manage the pressure, legal departments now are implementing tools and leveraging services that increase efficiency and improve productivity. Most legal...
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Potential Technology Approaches For Contract Lawyers
In many ways, law departments’ delivery of contract management services is still like the Wild West – a lawless frontier. Within a single law department, approaches to managing contracts can differ wildly among practices or teams, if not among individual lawyers themselves. Some teams...
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What To Look For In An ELM Provider
Corporate legal departments face diverse challenges: providing effective counsel to internal clients, supervising outside counsel work and managing risk for the organization. And they generally must achieve these objectives within the constraints of limited internal resources and a fixed budget...
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