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Insurance Coverage & Recovery

Will 2017 Be the Year of the GC as Mega-Risk Officer?: As new threats loom, companies are more dependent than ever on the legal department’s risk oversight

Ninety-three percent of companies consider their general counsel a member of the executive management, up from 55 percent in 2010, according to Equilar’s General Counsel Pay Trends 2016. GCs have moved beyond solely advising on technical legal issues in large-scale organizations. GCs have...

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Managing Acquired Risk: Global expansion is perilous, but integration is the biggest risk of all

Metropolitan Corporate Counsel wrapped up its 2016 series examining global risk with a fourth roundtable dinner – again co-hosted by Clifford Chance – on November 10 at Marea in New York City. The topic for the finale was how to safely manage the risks that companies take on as...

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Insurance Coverage & Recovery

Avoiding Damage Done by Damages Experts: Failure to consider the mitigation issue is a grave mistake

Economic damages experts are often confronted with legal theories, which must be carefully applied to their casework within the context of the economic analysis. One example is the Mitigation of Damages Doctrine. The Mitigation of Damages Doctrine is actually quite straightforward. It simply says...

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