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You're being asked to do more with less everyday. How can you best deploy the existing staff you have to maximize efficiency within your department? Attend this session to learn how to manage support staff more effectively, understand the proper mix between paralegals and administrative staff, learn the ethics of delegation, and gain insight into how technology affects your decisions.

Leadership is not the same as management, and in today's culturally and geographically diverse work environment effective leadership requires not only solid management and technical skills but an appreciation for and sensitivity to differences in business and legal cultures. Our panel of international legal leaders will present lessons learned and practical suggestions on how to overcome geographic, organizational and cultural barriers in order to build an integrated global law department, while taking into consideration differences in legal systems around the world.

Internal development of ("Intrapreneurship") and/or external minority investment in new entrepreneurial ventures has become a strategy of choice for businesses looking to stay ahead of the innovation curve. But there are a number of potential pitfalls that in-house counsel need to avoid in creating, structuring, negotiating, and implementing such a transaction.

Opening an office or subsidiary in a foreign jurisdiction can be daunting, and not simply because of culture, location or resource challenges. This session will provide a valuable discussion of the topics and explore various practical and legal issues arising when opening and operating satellite offices in foreign jurisdictions.

Includes: Centralized Law Department Model, Decentralized Law Department Model, Hybrid Model

The challenges that greet the attorney who is starting a new corporate law department can be overwhelming. It thus is important to have a plan of action. The following checklist contains key points that should be considered.

Practical guidelines from Reebok's legal department can be used by in-house counsel.

Nuts & Bolts of Starting a Law Department from Scratch
Christopher D.T. Guiffre - senior vice president, general counsel and secretary, Cubist Pharmaceuticals; Molly McQueen - vice president and general counsel, Compass Advisors, LLC; and Richard S. Veys - general counsel, First Alert/Powermate, Inc.

Tips and tools for organizing your law department that focuses on "do-it-yourself" solutions.

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Interest Area: Law Department Management
Source: Meetings
Region: United States
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Legal Operations: Leading Practices in Implementing Strategy, Leading Change, and Advancing Law Department Excellence
Association of Corporate Counsel

This resource presents the leading practices of legal departments that leverage dedicated legal operations staff to manage the business aspects of Legal. Through profiles of 11 legal departments, it conveys who leads the legal operations function, relationships between general counsel and their legal operations leaders, reasons for the legal operations function, how it functions, its scope and impacts.

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Interest Area: Career Development, Litigation and Dispute Resolution, Law Department Management
Source: Resource Library
Collection: Leadership Skills
Audience: Legal Operations
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The Rise (and Rise) of In-House Counsel Across the GCC
Ben Cockram, Associate Director at Taylor Root

This article shows how continued growth across the GCC has given rise to more hiring of dedicated In-House Counsel.

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Interest Area: Law Department Management, Career Development, Commercial and Contracts, Compliance and Ethics
Source: Resource Library
Region: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
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