In global business, pace, demand and innovation are constantly increasing. This is pushing in-house lawyers to be more flexible and engaged. In this article, your legal team can learn how to build a focused department and deliver value to your company.
The concept of collecting legal team data is increasingly capturing the attention of General Counsel. In this article, learn some steps you and your team can take in order to use data to improve your performance.
When in-house counsel are asked to demonstrate their value, how do they do so? In this article, learn how you and your team can set targets, collect data, organise your goals, and draw attention to your value for the company.
In-house counsel are being seen as responsible for the legal spend on external firms for their companies. This means demonstrating that external legal spend is considered, appropriate and measurable. By organising and implementing innovative key performance indicators (KPIs) for your department, in-house counsel can show their value and demonstrate why their legal spend is important.
This article highlights some of the key findings from that report and introduces a framework developed to help general counsels future-proof corporate legal departments.
The importance of creating a culture of compliance within your company has always been an important concept and these days its becoming even more so. In this article, in-house counsel can learn why they need a culture of compliance and how to create one.
Claims against in-house lawyers remain relatively rare but not as rare as they once were. In this article, in-house counsel can learn about some recent cases in which counsel has been sued and how to protect themselves and their company against these issues.
Instilling a corporate culture where each individual feels comfortable raising integrity concerns is crucial to the early identification of misconduct or other inappropriate behavior. In this article, learn how a new study has shown light on compliance behavior within the legal world and how to integrate that impact into your department.
A lawyer employed as in-house counsel is subject to the same professional and ethical obligations as any other lawyer. The only difference between lawyers in private practice and in-house lawyers is that the latter have only one client – the organisation by which they are employed.
In this short article, Robyn King, Human Rights Specialist at South32, discusses practices to address modern slavery issues in companies' supply chains.