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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The backdating scandal continues to ensnare chief legal officers. A sampler.
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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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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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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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Bristol-Myers is the first company to sign a deferred prosecution agreement and then violate it.
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Familiar faces show up on our annual survey of the most-used outside firms-even though we changed our methodology.
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How companies report compensation has changed, but this much hasn't: GC pay is up yet again.
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Companies are disclosing overseas bribes in record numbers. Is that always necessary?
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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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This year?s winner, General Electric, shows that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
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How the Seminoles-led by their blind GC-won the bidding war for the Hard Rock empire.
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As law departments get tech?savvy, they?re insisting that firms come along for the ride.
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The booming private equity field sparks a new gold rush in corporate counsel.
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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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Four lawyers who took on novel in-house challenges-and succeeded.
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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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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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Corporate America?s favorite outside counsel.
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Accounting changes make this the year of generous restricted stock grants. And bonuses weren?t too shabby, either.
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Microsoft taps a new intellectual property head to locate alternative revenue sources.
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Auditors are seeking more information from companies than ever.
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The best in-house legal departments.
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GE's legendary lawyer explains how he revolutionized the role of in-house counsel. By Ben W. Heinemann, Jr.
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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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How one legal department is trying to turn the power back on.
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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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Truckers have waged a long battle against "black boxes." But one big carrier has embraced them. Who's right?
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One in-house lawyer's eight-year campaign to get the class action reform bill passed.
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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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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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Faith-based employment bias suits are on the rise. How far should company lawyers go to accommodate workers' beliefs?
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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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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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