Law Department Benchmarking Report Your comprehensive source for practices, metrics, and trends driving law department operations. 119 Companies | $2.3 Trillion in Revenue | $4.3 Billion in Legal Spend |5,900+ In-House Attorneys

Staffing Trilingual Lawyers Days Ahead of Schedule An international law firm required five trilingual contract lawyers—native or near-native Russian, German and English speakers. The reviewers would be based at the firm's Munich offices,

GC Focus: Contract Management System vs. Document Management System: Which Technology Is Right for Your Law Department? So you want to better manage your organization’s contracts and are ready to invest in technology

GC Focus: Contract Analytics – What Can They Do for You? Organizations are looking to improve their contract management, both with respect to existing agreements and contract creation for new agreements and templates.

GC Focus: How Does Your Outside Counsel Manage Your Litigation? Of course you don’t want to micromanage how your outside counsel handles your organization’s litigation – after all, you hired them for their

GC Focus: Predicting the Future of Legal Analytics It is pretty clear that legal analytics are here to stay in law department management, and the ways analytics can be used are likely to

8th Annual Law Department Operations Survey The Blickstein Group, in cooperation with Consilio, has been surveying Legal Ops and other law department professionals, focusing solely on the operations function and seeking to provide

GC Focus: Aligning the Law Department with the Corporate Vision As organizations grow or the competitive landscape shifts, the corporate vision can evolve. Unfortunately, there is often a disconnection between a corporation’s new

GC Focus: Where Are Your Priorities? Our last issue discussed transforming the law department in order to align it with the corporate vision. This issue focuses on a critical aspect of that transformation

GC Focus: Could It Be Magic? For information governance professionals, last week the hottest spot north of Havana was ARMA’s 60th Annual Conference and Expo in Washington, DC. Over 1,700 gathered to network, explore

GC Focus: Surviving in a World Without Safe Harbor The situation related to Safe Harbor, the framework that previously enabled transfers of data between the E.U. and U.S., continues to evolve. As most

Eye On Discovery: The Eight Commandments of Data Preservation Since the addition of the e-discovery amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure in 2006, sanctions for spoliation have risen markedly. This trend seems

Webinar: The Snowden Effect - How the Landscape of Cross-Border Discovery is Impacted by Recent Events Presented as part of the ALM Virtual Corporate Counsel Forum, this one-hour webinar, will examine how

Decoding Encrypted Documents in Cross-Border eDiscovery Successfully managing encrypted data depends on the processes and technology used. With the right know-how and technology, it is possible to properly collect and decrypt data and

Digital guardians: Protecting companies against IP theft by John Shaw May 2012 As technology becomes more sophisticated and the tracking of intellectual property (IP) theft becomes more challenging, the pressure is on IT

How Businesses Can Protect Themselves from IP Theft by John Shaw February 2012 Software companies can spend enormous amounts of money and time developing new products; yet underestimate the ease of code being

Law Business Review: "Playing by the Rules" by Drew Macaulay April 2011 With the introduction later this year of the Bribery Act, and increased vigilance around competition, lawyers are under pressure to negotiate