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Benchmark Metrics for Pharma Companies: Indexing allows cross-industry law department comparisons
This article covers two topics: benchmark metrics for pharmaceutical company law departments and indexing as a method to create comparability between benchmarks that have widely different scales. To address both topics, General Counsel Metrics, LLC, which conducts the world’s largest law...
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GCs Pen New Chapters on Partnering with Outside Counsel: Shareholder Activism and Corporate Sustainability
Effective partnering between inside and outside counsel enables corporate law departments to improve the quality and reduce the costs of legal services provided to corporate clients. The best-known source of expert guidance on partnering is the five-volume, 8,000-page treatise and practice...
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The 21st Century General Counsel: On Being More Than a Lawyer
In the mid- to late ’90s, psychologist Daniel Jay Goleman authored two best-selling books, Emotional Intelligence (1995) and Working with Emotional Intelligence (1998), in which he posited that just as each person has an intelligence quotient, or IQ, which represents how academically...
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