Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) strategy is fast becoming a norm within corporations, although how those strategies are being implemented and managed may vary as numerous leaders with different roles within the C-suite may become involved.
Law firms and their client companies have been adjusting their long-term growth strategies to more fully address environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) issues, particularly to help organizations improve their own sustainability and communicate their societal impact. Learn how to incorporate these values and systems into your work.
Increasing cybersecurity attacks and fast-evolving data privacy and security law mean there's so much more data for in-house legal departments to track. Learn how to gauge a "reasonable" data security request and integrate that into your work.
As today’s digitized and remote-enabled legal marketplace evolves, legal service delivery and the roles supporting in-house and outside legal teams have assumed greater importance in meeting the challenges and opportunities of this new reality. In this article, learn how these professionals have a direct impact on in-house counsel.
Why are General Counsels (GCs) being overlooked for board roles, even though many are company secretaries to their company’s boards of directors and have the most experience and exposure to the boards? In this article, find out more about how this happens and ways to move forward.
Lawyers working in law firms and in corporate law departments reported several personal challenges to developing their careers during the pandemic. One year after the start of the pandemic, the biggest barrier to career progression for lawyers continued to be limited to no in-person contact. Read this important article to learn more about the professional impact of the pandemic.
This resource is a summary of the Opening Plenary of the Virtual Global General Counsel Summit 2021, titled "Championing Trust in Business in a Brave New World". It contains takeaways distilled from that session's discussion.
In this sample, the nuances and differences of legal, regulatory and compliance functions are explained so as to best build a successful organizational unit.
Cloud computing is an environment where a business outsources the development, hosting, or running of all or part of its applications and information to a third party, and away from the business’s hardware and premises. In this Top Ten, learn how to utilize this technology for your in-house contract needs.
In the in-house world, sometimes you need to strike your own path to success. In this Top Ten, find the most valuable and critical characteristics you can learn in order to succeed.