Corporate Law

News and Jobs for Inhouse Counsel

Total news: 40
Last news: March 20, 2008 11:22:53

Extensive research is not required; the media reports of corporate scandals continue apace. General counsel figure prominently in the governmental investigations and, more frequently these days, in the indictments and convictions or guilty pleas. Learning from others mistakes is far less costly than learning from ones own, says former Safeway GC Michael C. Ross. [...] - [Read more]

Does this mean that it is possible for one person to master both SOX and XBOX? Brazilian boy, 8, passes law school entrance exam | World news | The Guardian ** Find an In-House Counsel Job @ InhouseBlog.coms Job Board. ** - [Read more]

Law department management guru Rees Morrison has bundled six of his articles on law department productivity into one tidy PDF package. Head over to his Law Department Management blog to download the package - its free! Law Department Management: An elegant set of recent articles on legal-department productivity ** Find an In-House Counsel Job @ [...] - [Read more]

Legal tech guru Dennis Kennedy shares his thoughts on legal tech trends for 2008 - read and share with your law department and MIS department. Eight Legal Technology Trends for 2008 – Good Times, Bad Times or Hard Times in Legal Tech? | LLRX.com ** Find an In-House Counsel Job @ InhouseBlog.coms Job Board. ** - [Read more]

Recalling some of the drama, tragedy, intrigue and suspense involving in-house counsel in 2007, attorneys Gordon J. Calhoun and Susan F. Friedman address notable past acts ramifications, and lend insight into the potential exposures that will set the stage for the remainder of 2008. They note that those in-house counsel who are best able [...] - [Read more]

Its Leap Day, so why not take a leap? Major Corporation - Litigation Attorney - Strategic Legal Solutions, Rye, NY Sr. Attorney - Walgreen Company, Deerfield, IL Counsel - AIG SunAmerica , Century City, CA Senior Attorney - Antigenics, Inc., Lexington, MA (Boston Area) Attorney - Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA In-House Counsel - Confidential, New York, NY Commercial Attorney - Publicly [...] - [Read more]

Are you new to the in-house practice? Do you want to you to learn how to perfect your game plus help you and your company succeed? Register now for ACC’s Corporate Counsel University® CCU. In its 6th year, CCU has become the gold standard for best practices for attorneys who are new to in-house. [...] - [Read more]

Suppose a document is deemed responsive to a discovery request served on a company. The document is the companys outside counsels confidential legal advice to the company, provided in response to an express request for the advice. Certainly, the company may withhold this document as privileged. Right? Unfortunately, the answer is a definite maybe, [...] - [Read more]

Hungry for in-house counsel compensation information? Head over to InsideCounsel for some new stats. Payday Bonus - InsideCounsel ** Find an In-House Counsel Job @ InhouseBlog.coms Job Board. ** - [Read more]

InhouseBlog just stumbled upon a blawg that will be dear to the hearts of in-house counsel - D. Michael Grodhaus The Alternative Fee Lawyer blawg, which is described an Ohio business lawyers reflections on alternatives to the billable hour in setting legal fees for business clients.  If youre having heartburn over potential $200,000 starting [...] - [Read more]

The Association of Corporate Counsels Top Ten list for December 2007 promises to help you improve your legal writing skills. Written by Professor Paula Colby-Clements of the Massachusetts School of Law, the Top Ten list runs through ten concepts that all corporate counsel should keep in mind when preparing legal documents.  If you [...] - [Read more]

Dan Schwartz, author of the CT Employment Law Blog, submitted a helpful news item relevant to CT in-house counsel licensure: For years, there were lots of questions in Connecticut about whether attorneys who were not licensed to practice in Connecticut could work in-house or directly for Connecticut companies. Some even ended up taking [...] - [Read more]

Quintiles Transnational Corp. announced the appointment of John Goodacre as Executive Vice President and General Counsel: Previously Senior Vice President, Global Risk Management and Quality Assurance, Goodacre joined Quintiles in 1998 as Vice President, European Legal Affairs. John has a thorough understanding of Quintiles and the clinical research industry, having served the company in various [...] - [Read more]

Looking to make a move in 2008? Here are a few of the latest in-house job openings at InhouseBlog.coms Job Board: General Counsel - Long Island Power Authority, Uniondale, NY Senior Counsel - National Wildlife Federation, Boulder, CO General Counsel - Mobile Messenger, Santa Monica, CA General Counsel - Amedisys, Baton Rouge, LA Deputy General Counsel - CNA, Alexandria, [...] - [Read more]

The in-house bar is losing one of its members. The wire reports indicate that Mark Brobak, Chief Legal Officer of Anheuser-Busch, is leaving his position to start his own firm: August Busch IV, CEO and president of Anheuser-Busch Companies, said: In leading our legal department through many complex and challenging issues, [...] - [Read more]