Law Department Management

By transforming your legal organization in business interaction, focus, structure and staffing, you can maximize the opportunity to use legal resources to create significant positive value and advance company strategy. A hybrid model allows both functional expertise and alignment with the various business units.

At first glance, devising and negotiating payment term policies may appear to be a purely financial endeavor. However, a knowledgeable in-house counsel could craft these policies to help anticipate certain problems, while appeasing parties on both sides of the negotiation. Learn how different policies work and what terms are used to better meet the requirements of your organization in the United States.

Read this 2012 Communicator Award-winning column! Who invented the airplane? Depending on your location, the answer might not be the one you expected. This column focuses on the evolution of ideas, and what lawyers stand to benefit from this process.