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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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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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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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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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Why Your Business Needs A Systematic Process For Executing Legal Holds
Legal holds are an increasingly common occurrence for businesses today, as the threat of litigation from competitors, customers, employees and others is ever-present. Even in corporations that don’t see a lot of litigation, it’s critical to be well prepared for legal holds and have a...
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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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