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Thomson Reuters
15 pages

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.

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Region: United States
Audience: Deputy GC, Mid-Career, New to In-House, CLO / GC
Thomas McGuire, General Counsel, Silver FernHealthcare, LLC
2 pages

In this sample, the nuances and differences of legal, regulatory and compliance functions are explained so as to best build a successful organizational unit.

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Region: United States
Audience: Deputy GC, Mid-Career, New to In-House, CLO / GC
Jacob Kojfman, Legal Counsel, CGI Information Systems and Management Consultants Inc.

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.

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Collection: Contract Negotiation Skills
Region: United States
Audience: Deputy GC, Mid-Career, New to In-House, CLO / GC, Small Law Departments, Large Law Departments
Thomas J. McGuire, General Counsel, Silver Fern Healthcare, LLC

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.

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Region: Global
Audience: Deputy GC, Mid-Career, New to In-House, CLO / GC
Sarah Karlgaard, General Counsel of Vital Images and Mark Roellig, former General Counsel of four Fortune 500 companies and recipient of the 2012 Association of Corporate Counsel Excellence in Corporate Practice Award
2 pages

This template can be used to plan out the onboarding, tracking, and achievement of a new hire over a 30, 60, and 90 day period.

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Region: Global
Audience: Deputy GC, Mid-Career, CLO / GC, Small Law Departments, Large Law Departments
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Peter Leonard, Consultant, Gilbert + Tobin
6 pages

This article provides an in-depth look at data privacy in the modern world. Specifically, it states that data privacy statutes, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's (ACCC’s) Digital Platform Inquiry’s recommendations, and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) are insufficient to address issues with data privacy. However, it stresses the need to redraft statutes to protect the rights and interests of individual humans to live without the risk of “excessive intrusion” in order to ameliorate problems with data privacy.

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Region: Australia
Audience: Deputy GC, Mid-Career, New to In-House, CLO / GC
Lesley Sutton, Partner, Erin Kirker, Lawyer, and Luke Standen, Lawyer, Gilbert + Tobin
3 pages

Australia has been criticized in the past for its lack of direction in adopting Artificial Intelligence (AI). However, the Australian government has been working to reinvent its approach to coordinate government policy and national capability to make Australia a leading digital economy within the next decade. This article provides an overview of the steps the government is taking to achieve that objective.

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Region: Australia
Audience: Deputy GC, Mid-Career, New to In-House, CLO / GC
Lesley Sutton, Partner, Mark Ferguson, Lawyer, and Nikhil Shah, Consultant, Gilbert + Tobin
4 pages

This article provides an overview of the Australian government’s ongoing reforms of laws aimed at protecting the country’s ‘critical infrastructure assets’ and ‘systems of national significance.’ The overview includes an outline of the three key provisions of the Exposure Draft of the Security Legislation Amendment (Critical Infrastructure) Bill 2020, released on 9 November 2020.

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Region: Australia
Audience: Mid-Career, New to In-House, Small Law Departments, Large Law Departments
Rebecca Dunn, Partner, Gilbert + Tobin
2 pages

This piece examines the increasingly common method of cyber-attacks to conduct “warfare” and diplomatic disruption in the modern world. Because of the threat cyber-attacks represent, the piece stresses the importance of Australia bolstering its cyber defense and countermeasures, so “potentially catastrophic impacts” are limited.

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Region: Australia
Audience: Deputy GC, Mid-Career, New to In-House
Peter Waters, Consultant, and Jen Bradley, Lawyer, Gilbert + Tobin
3 pages

This article highlights the issue of public distrust of Artificial Intelligence (AI), with nearly half of Australia’s population believing AI will harm them. The resource summarizes then summarizes the key points made in a landmark review released by the United Kingdom's (UK’s) Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation regarding bias in AI.

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Region: Australia
Audience: Deputy GC, Mid-Career
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