This article offers practical guidance on recognizing an ethical dilemma or conflict when you're facing it, and gracefully navigating your way through it.
It is an exciting and challenging time for in-house counsel. These days, the pipeline to general counsel is full of high-potential women and minorities. Read this article for insights and tips on how to achieve your fullest potential by shedding light on what it takes to advance in today's competitive corporate law department and how to use this knowledge to define your unique career path.
This article discusses the considerable confusion that exists over the reach of the SEC's Section 205, its new Standards of Professional Conduct for Attorneys appearing before the Commission.
Discusses the steps to take in order to have time, energy, an ethical lifestyle that has a place for both our work responsibilities and our duties to our communities and families, flexibility, and the ability to enjoy our lives. Includes what law departments can do and programs for overcoming obstacles to work-life balance.
Read this article and learn how to implement self-sustaining codes of conduct and corporate policies that will get behavior to conform to the ideals espoused in such documents.
Every penny that you spend on outside counsel reduces your organization's revenue. So come along, Grasshopper, as we learn the lessons of kung frugal--getting more for your money from outside counsel.
Many in-house counsel are deciding that an ideal relationship with outside counsel involves a long-lasting commitment to partnership and collaboration, to understanding each other's interests and goals, to open communication and to pursuing new strategies. Read this article and learn how to establish outside counsel partnerships based on trust.
Much of the litigation that global corporations face involves rapidly changing areas of the law that could affect shareholder earnings in a major way. In a high-stakes matter, therefore, your team of outside lawyers should include someone who is an expert at guiding a case through the appellate process.
When you are trying to figure out whether to go to outside counsel for a legal opinion or to recommend that your company obtain UCC insurance, you need to consider several factors: what constitutes UCC insurance, comparison of typical legal opinions and UCC insurance coverage, multijurisdictional issues under the UCC, and cases requiring UCC insurance.
This article takes you through each stage of the comprehensive outside counsel selection process. It identifies issues and recommends certain courses of action that legal departments should include in their planning for each stage of the selection process.