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But it has also demonstrated that allowing some employees to work from home may be a reasonable — or even preferable — alternative to requiring them to work on premise. There are a number of benefits in developing a distributed law department.

It is time for in-house lawyers to embrace their unique role within their respective organizations and use their influence and knowledge to further the corporation’s diversity and inclusion efforts.

Complying with the new, complex data privacy laws, which put more power into individuals’ hands than in the past, can seem overwhelming. The project management structure DHI set up to address GDPR created a frame-work that puts the legal department in a position to continually improve best practices, comply with laws, and evolve over time.

A letter of intent (LOI) should not serve as an automatic response to the start of negotiations, but it can be helpful as a document that outlines intentions for a complicated transactional relationship.

One option for strategic in-house lawyering is to spearhead an Executive Recession Plan (ERP). An ERP is a high-level multi-disciplinary plan designed to prepare the organization for an economic recession.

Settling earlier rather than later in the litigation process would conserve scarce judicial and client resources by avoiding the time and expense associated with motion practice and trial.

Tony West doesn’t run away from a crisis; he heads toward it. The first executive hire by newly installed Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, West was given a mandate as chief legal officer to transform a company that had developed a reputation for winning at all costs into one committed to transparency and safety.

This year has been full of change and uncertainty, but also resilience. As leaders and as humans, we have faced difficult challenges due to the global pandemic COVID-19.

Considering systemic racism and what can be done to create change may feel overwhelming. What can we do to contribute to change? What can we do to eliminate unintentional bias? This column focuses on diversity and inclusion efforts that corporate legal departments can take to become catalysts of change.

It is clear that the European Union is taking a strong stand on protecting personal information from government intrusion and that the United States is particularly susceptible to restrictions. US companies must take appropriate steps to consider the risk and enact mitigations for personal information being processed from the European Union.