The information revolution is responsible for quantum leaps in productivity and economic prosperity, but a downside has been the rise in a whole new class of crimes. With 8 primary elements, the comprehensive privacy protection and information security program described in this article is centered on people, processes, and technical management that is standards-based whenever possible.
In Richard Susskind's latest book The End of Lawyers? Rethinking the Nature of Legal Services, he develops his theory that the new information age will ultimately render lawyers obsolete. This article analyzes and critiques this premise from the perspective of in-house counsel.
Discusses what it takes to be a good people manager through the findings from an employee satisfaction survey.
Managing outsourcing relationships and negotiating technology solutions can prove to be difficult for in-house counsel, especially if they are brought into the process too late to be effective. This article discusses the benefits of adding counsel to the acquisition team early on in order to immediately influence the direction of the negotiations and ensure a more effective outcome for the client.
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) goes beyond being compliant and ethical in today's business world. While more and more companies may just be realizing the value of CSR, The Timberland Company has been involved in this area for some time. This article describes their commitment to CSR.
To learn more about social responsibility, advocacy, and ethics, try spending some time with a five-year-old. As lawyers, many of us are required to spend a certain minimum number of hours at ethics classes, which tend to be dreary and doldrum. The author of this article suggests int he future that lawyers spend their time learning ethics from young children. Doing some will not only be informative, but will be anything but dreary.
Discusses the necessary ingredients of effective compliance and ethics training and the key advantages of such ingredients compared to standard lecture formats.
Your job is to present legal options to your client and guide him to the right decision. To do that job well, however,
you must recognize the force of ambiguity aversion. You have the perspective to choose the best path and discount the effects of uncertainty, but your client likely sees the matter with far greater trepidation.
In-house lawyers are always searching for opportunities to streamline a process. Often, a streamlined process equates to efficiencies within the legal department and higher productivity of the in-house lawyers and paralegals. Read this article to find out more.
Read this 2009 Communicator Award-winning article! <br/>Discusses how legal doctrines shape the corporate social responsibility (CSR) debate, enables in-house counsel to recognize CSR for what it is and why it is important and suggests ways to deal with it in your role as corporate attorney.