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Satisfied Clients Could Signal An Inefficient Law Department

Client satisfaction with legal departments is often measured by annual surveys, in which clients rate the service they are receiving. […]

Offshore Accounts Subject to New Tax Protocols

For many years, American taxpayers were able to avoid taxes by placing assets in offshore accounts. Rules regarding disclosure were […]

Why Settlements Can Be Expensive

Litigation is more like a settlement negotiation than a war, even while the company is acting tough to demonstrate that […]

Knowing When It’s Time To Leave

This list of good reasons to leave your job as in-house attorney is comprehensive, if not exhaustive. Among the more […]

June/July 2013

Time for a Carbon Tax?

Enforcing Jury Waiver Clauses

In some industries, a pre-dispute jury waiver agreement may be preferable to an arbitration provision, but…

A Corporate Counsel’s Guide to Predictive Coding

Predictive coding is computer or technology-assisted review that extrapolates human review decisions from a subset of materials to classify documents […]

Five Trends to Watch as Power, Responsibility, Shift to In-House Legal Departments

Cost-containment and resource efficiency remain essential goals for legal departments, but are no longer the primary concern. In-house teams are […]

Inside the Mind of the Non-Practicing Entity

As the U.S. economy has become more patent-intensive, non-practicing entities (NPEs), business entities that do…

When is a Freedom to Operate Opinion Cost-Effective?

Most companies understand the value of applying for patents on inventions before launching a product. But…

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