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March 2008

Hard Lessons

Even if Qualcom's e-discovery blunders were innocent, they were costly-and avoidable. Here's how other law departments can do better.
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February 2008

Caught in Backdating's Web

The backdating scandal continues to ensnare chief legal officers. A sampler.
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January 2008

Attention Must Be Paid

After a Lockheed engineer uncovered problems with the Deepwater shipbuilding project, the company didn't want to hear about it-but Congress and Justice did.
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December 2007

Hard Choices

Chiquita says it had to pay off Colombian terrorists to protect its employees. But the Justice Department says the company simply made an "expedient" choice. An exhaustive look at the four-year probe finds that neither side is exactly right.
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November 2007

No Roman Holiday

The Getty has faced other troubles over the last few years-questions about the provenance of some of its antiquities and about the rigor of its acquisition policies.
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October 2007

Doctor's Orders

Bristol-Myers is the first company to sign a deferred prosecution agreement and then violate it.
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September 2007

Who Represents America's Biggest Companies?

Familiar faces show up on our annual survey of the most-used outside firms-even though we changed our methodology.
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August 2007

2007 GC Compensation Survey

How companies report compensation has changed, but this much hasn't: GC pay is up yet again.
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July 2007

On Bended Knee

Companies are disclosing overseas bribes in record numbers. Is that always necessary?
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June 2007

The Enforcer

Adidas's Asia IP guru says he doesn't have a counterfeiting problem in China. What's the athletic shoe maker doing right?
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May 2007

Best Legal Department

This year?s winner, General Electric, shows that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
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April 2007

The Long Shot

How the Seminoles-led by their blind GC-won the bidding war for the Hard Rock empire.
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March 2007

All Together Now

As law departments get tech?savvy, they?re insisting that firms come along for the ride.
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February 2007

Nice Work if You Can Get It

The booming private equity field sparks a new gold rush in corporate counsel.
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January 2007

Saw No Evil

On six separate occasions, HP?s GC questioned whether ?pretexting? was legal. So why didn?t she stop it?and save the venerable tech company from scandal?
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December 2006

Present at the Creation

Four lawyers who took on novel in-house challenges-and succeeded.
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November 2006

Hunting for Answers

Rick Nelson was Peregrine?s high-flying GC during its heyday. But did Nelson?s desire to rise to the top keep him from saying no to practices that led to the company?s fall?
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October 2006

Fallen Star

Did the GC of the troubled University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey take the fall for the school?s administrators?
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September 2006

The Untouchables

Corporate America?s favorite outside counsel.
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August 2006

Taking Stock

Accounting changes make this the year of generous restricted stock grants. And bonuses weren?t too shabby, either.
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July 2006

The Outsider

Microsoft taps a new intellectual property head to locate alternative revenue sources.
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June 2006

Your Papers, Please

Auditors are seeking more information from companies than ever.
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May 2006

They're the Top

The best in-house legal departments.
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April 2006

In the Beginning

GE's legendary lawyer explains how he revolutionized the role of in-house counsel. By Ben W. Heinemann, Jr.
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March 2006

Speak Truth to Power

As the trial of Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling gets under way, former Enron in-house lawyers reflect on the hard lessons they've learned.
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February 2006

Recharging New Orleans

How one legal department is trying to turn the power back on.
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January 2006

Mr. and Mrs. Smith

THe?s the GC of Microsoft, she?s the GC of SonoSite?and they?re married. How do they manage to juggle high-profile careers and a family?
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July 2005

Rules of the Road

Truckers have waged a long battle against "black boxes." But one big carrier has embraced them. Who's right?
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June 2005

Ms. Rabiteau Goes to Washington

One in-house lawyer's eight-year campaign to get the class action reform bill passed.
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May 2005

2005 In-House Tech Survey

In-house law departments have figured out what all that high-tech gadgetry is good for: pressuring outside counsel to cut costs.
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April 2005

The 2005 Shortlist

On the heels of the success of the 2002 Shortlist, here are 10 in-house lawyers who we think have what it takes to become GCs by 2010.
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March 2005

Getting Religion

Faith-based employment bias suits are on the rise. How far should company lawyers go to accommodate workers' beliefs?
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February 2005

With Charity for All?

Nonprofit GCs are implementing SOX-like practices at their organizations in the wake of scandals at major nonprofits. Are they trying to do good or hoping to fend off federal oversight?
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January 2005

Giant Slayer

The chief IP lawyer for Indian generic drug maker Ranbaxy has an audacious strategy: Attack "Big Pharma" patents early, market generics quickly and rake in the profits.
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