Corporate Counsel

...Carole has been immersed in the concerns of corporate counsel for many years and has edited a number of treatises for corporate counsel. ...

...and efficiently, while driving down costs and eliminating or reducing the need for outside counsel. One new tool that many corporate legal departments are assessing, and quickly beginning to embrace, is WestlawNext (http://westlawnext.com), the next-generation legal research platform recently introduced by Thomson Reuters. The Power Behind WestlawNext: ...

...compensation, health care, financial institutions, and class actions have in common? Corporate counsel will recognize these four subjects as among the most rapidly evolving and important areas of in-house corporate law practice. ...

...you just completed your second annual survey addressing a range of critical concerns of corporate counsel in Texas. Can you tell us what your objectives were in managing this outreach and survey? Habbinga : ...

...for Civil Justice (LCJ), DRI - The Voice of the Defense Bar, the Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel (FDCC), and the International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC), recently announced strong support for a fundamental review of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) now underway by the Federal Judicial Conference Rules Committee. ...

...when completing transactions, clients are looking first and foremost for outstanding M&A counsel. Jones Day has counseled clients on more M&A transactions than any other firm in every quarterly period during the last ten years. ...

...She is a co-author with Carole Basri of eDiscovery for Corporate Counsel , a publication of West, a Thomson Reuters Business. ...

...When directors participate in programs outside the company, it is helpful for the company's general counsel or secretary to get a sense of what the directors heard during the session. ...

...ors? Dreier: While early case assessment should be increasingly popular, especially with corporate counsel, its progress has been slow. Before counsel leap into litigation or arbitration, a dispassionate review by a trained and experienced neutral can often save hundreds of thousands of dollars in costs. ...

...Lennox International, which is headquartered in the greater Dallas area. Previously, I was general counsel of Freescale Semiconductors in Austin. My relationship with The General Counsel Forum stretches back about ten years, and I have served in a number of different capacities. ...

...If a company wishes to conduct the investigation internally, they at least should have an advisory counsel for the investigation, generally an experienced forensic accountant like me or any of our Deloitte forensic accountants and a lawyer. ...

...bingo regulations. The sheriff's lawyer, who happened to be the son and law partner of the counsel and minority shareholder of a charitable bingo operator called VictoryLand, drafted the regulations. ...

...in real cost savings for the ultimate corporate client on both the e-discovery provider and outside counsel front. The real truth is that, in most cases, less than 20 percent of most document sets are relevant. ...

...with and share electronic documents between multiple people and sites. Editor: Is the general counsel influencing other departments with his or her technology decisions? Brown: ...

...dollars, to complete. To put it mildly, the client was pleased. Editor: What can in-house counsel do to reduce e-discovery costs? Davis: The e-discovery landscape is changing rapidly. ...

...to an eLawForum study. In any economy saving money is everyone's job, including the general counsel's office. Reducing eDiscovery costs is a big trend for 2010, and technology is one of the key enablers. ...

...requires that compensation committees have the authority to hire compensation consultants, legal counsel and other advisors to the compensation committee and shall be directly responsible for any such advisor's appointment, compensation and oversight. ...

...Group, and Ms. Odoner and Ms. Dixon are members of that group. Mr. Tarbert is former Special Counsel to the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, and Ms. Dixon is former Chief Counsel of the SEC's Division of Corporation Finance. ...

...in Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly , 550 U.S. 544 (2007) . Corporate counsel need to bestir themselves in defense of two Supreme Court decisions that are under attack from the professional plaintiffs' bar. ...

...landmark legislation on our businesses will be. So it is critical that CEOs and the general counsel assisting CEOs speak out about their concerns and in so doing educate those in Washington about the real-world effects of what they do. Editor: ...

...for pro bono support - and when the Haiti disaster hit. "I knew Jim from my work as Legal Counsel to the Mobile Marketing Association," said Wiley Rein partner Scott Delacourt. ...

...transactional legal work with lawyers willing to do it for free. Since then the former general counsel of J. M. Huber Corp. in Edison has become a go-to volunteer on a spectrum of corporate and transaction issues from corporate name changes to reviewing bylaws to real estate rental agreements to mergers, said Nancy Eberhardt, director of the partnership program. ...

...to ask, how to identify and solve potential problems and how to choose and work with local counsel are skills that can be applied from country to country. ...

...we have worked on behalf of international war crimes tribunals. We have been retained as amicus counsel or independent counsel by the special court for Sierra Leone in the trial of Charles Taylor for crimes against humanity. ...

...program at its corporate headquarters in Santa Clara, CA in September 2006 after Intel's general counsel responded to a proposal from Jeffrey Hyman, a lawyer then on his team, to offer pro bono opportunities for the entire legal staff. ...

...be quickly retrieved. Editor: Tell us about the ground rules you follow in working with in-house counsel? Weinberger: On the financing side, although I do interface with in-house counsel a bit, it's much less than you might expect. ...

...are designed for complex commercial disputes involving sophisticated parties represented by counsel. These disputes can include an employment dispute between an executive with his employer, partnership disputes, all sorts of technology, financial agreement or construction disputes - basically any type of complex business dispute. ...

...Audit committees are authorized to retain, compensate and oversee compensation consultants, legal counsel and advisers who must be independent. Disclosure of Board Leadership - The SEC must issue rules requiring companies to disclose in annual proxy statements why they have separated or combined the positions of chairman of the board and CEO. ...

...a corporation receives notice that it is being investigated by the SEC, what should the general counsel immediately do or not do? Schoeman: The most important thing to keep in mind is that you should never answer questions from the SEC without being fully prepared. ...

...who is splitting his time between New York and London, and Richard Elliot, an international trade counsel who is an alumnus of the State Department Legal Advisor's Office. ...

...to protect this confidential data and preparing the related privilege log. Plaintiffs' class action counsel are well-aware that the cost associated with this process, coupled with the potential risk of inadvertent disclosure of confidential information, can sometimes be leveraged to drive up the settlement value of a case. ...

...for controlling discovery suggested by the American College of Trial Lawyers and others all counsel in favor of finding a sensible middle ground for e-discovery where undue burden is anathema and proportionality and reasonableness is the golden rule. ...

...ment discussed in the cover story by Dan Troy in the July 2010 issue of The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel . The White Paper made four recommendations for changes in the federal rules, namely the implementation of the pleading standards in Twiqbal ; ...

...of successful post-LBO fraudulent conveyance claims. Selling sponsors should also work with their counsel to seek to structure purchase price payments as "settlement payments" under the Bankruptcy Code. Although federal courts have set forth different standards regarding the requisite role of the financial institution in an LBO transaction, selling sponsors should consider providing that a financial institution be engaged to serve as an exchange or paying agent on the transaction. ...

...we are obligated to decline representation of the individual and suggest he or she seek separate counsel. Editor: Why does New Jersey seem to generate so much whistleblower litigation? Sandak: ...

...avoid or minimize these problems. Premerger Filing Requirements Engaging antitrust counsel, even at the stage of scanning the horizon, can be beneficial. ...

...with others in a high-pressure environment. Successful teams usually include inside and outside counsel, inside and outside communications professionals and investor relations representatives, among others, as dictated by the issues. It is vital that this team function with clear authority and that its work be streamlined. ...

...background as a lawyer, judge and public servant. Please describe your role as chief legal counsel to then-Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and as a chief counsel to Senator Scott Brown's campaign. ...

...committee authority to hire, in their discretion, independent compensation consultants, legal counsel and other advisors. While the draft language suggests the compensation committee is not required to adhere to the advice of consultants, will their failing to do so be at their own peril? Ritter: ...