Previous Issues

O (No!) Canada

A 1980s law that seemed pro forma is suddenly prominent in the M&A landscape, as Ottawa asks foreign investors: What's our net benefit, eh?

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Taking Your Measure

Why dig into the data to show how much the law department is worth to the rest of the enterprise.

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New Sheriff in Town

Almost under the radar, the Labor Department is talking and acting tough on employers. Critics call it grandstanding, but supporters call it course correction.

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Who Reps 2011: The Buddy System

Systems and metrics are great - but when it comes to choosing outside counsel, trust still counts for a lot.

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The Survivors (So Far)

Its lawyers have helped stabilize Freddie Mac since the onset of the mortgage crisis, but can they hold on?

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The 2011 GC Compensation Survey: She's Come a Long Way

Last year's hangover recedes, as GCs make up lost ground.

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In-House Tech Survey: Weapons of Mass Communication

Our intrepid tech-users go mobile, big time--and push their law firms around.

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Disruption As Usual

Win or lose, Googlers are taking the law and legal departments where they haven't gone before.

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China Market Report: Shifting into Higher Gear

Chinese state-owned automaker BAIC and its general counsel hope that its quest for whole-car technology will help it zoom past its local rivals.

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Labor Pains

Employees are suing like never before, so companies are pinning their hopes on the high court.

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The Insiders

You may not know their names, but their companies' GCs depend on them.

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Mandate for Growth

As the health care law takes effect, insurers are bracing for the millions of customers it could create.

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Half-Baked Justice

Corporate prosecutions are all over the map. Lawyers and judges alike are clamoring for consistent rules. Will that ever happen?

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Their Worst Nightmare

It began as an employment dispute with a former in-house lawyer. Now Toyota wonders where it will end.

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When the Whistle Blows

Dodd-Frank's bounty provision has GCs staying up nights.

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Have We Learned Anything?

The repercussions from Lehman's demise continue to reverberate. Here's what corporate counsel take away from it, two years later.

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The State of the Union

Last year, we wondered whether the in-house/outside counsel relationship has changed. It has--in surprising ways.

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Pause. Stop?

The Great Recession leaves its mark on general counsel earnings. Is this a permanent pause, or just a transition to different forms of incentives?

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The Fed's Master Craftsman

The New York branch general counsel helped engineer the bailouts that kept the bottom from falling out of the economy.

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Microsoft: Soft Diplomacy

The software giant's general counsel has recast its aggressive image and come to terms with regulators and competitors alike, while boosting pro bono work.

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The Great Search Forward

How Chinese tech giant Baidu conquered the world's largest Internet market.

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Forum Shopper's Remorse

Chevron thought that Ecuadoran justice sounded great until it got a taste. Now it faces a $27 billion judgment. The only way out: more forum shopping.

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This Year's Model

Ford's legal department has learned how to do more with less.

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Drug Wars

In their long battle with Big Pharma, the feds have held back their nuclear option. Why?

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Call In the Undertakers

How in-house lawyers and outside counsel from around the world dismantled Nortel.

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Seven Sigma

United Technologies is taking outside counsel management to the next level.

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Was He Listening?

Legal advice—whether it was taken or not—is at the center of state and federal probes of Bank of America.

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The Kill Step

Dole had lost toxic torts trials in two countries. But its GC smelled fraud.

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Who Represents America's Biggest Companies: The 2009 Survey

The same big law firms top our annual survey of outside counsel. But this year, the big question is: Are corporate legal chiefs using their greater bargaining power in a bad economy?

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Immune No More

In good times or bad, GC compensation historically drifted upward. But 2008 was not a typical year-and it seems that top corporate counsel aren't immune to market forces

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It's Broken

AIG's federal monitor failed to curtail bad behavior. Is it time to reexamine the program?

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Best Legal Department — 2009

Once again, we read submissions, we talked, and we argued-and we came up with three winners. But only one can grab the brass ring.

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The ICEman Cometh

The feds step up immigration enforcement by going after companies suspected of hiring illegal aliens-and seizing their assets.

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Risky Business

Did compliance programs fail the test during the financial industry meltdown?

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Testing the Waters

The makers of VitaminWater rack up successes in court as they snag would-be imitators with trade dress lawsuits.

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Stayin' Alive

How BNY Mellon's legal team helped the bank weather last fall's financial meltdown.

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Passage to India

Some companies see big savings in "offshoring" legal work. But how's the quality?

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Mission Critical

The British government dropped a bribery probe of BAE, but U.S. prosecutors picked it up. In the meantime, BAE's GC cleaned up its act-enough to fend off an indictment?

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Face the Music

SoundExchange GC Michael Huppe wants Internet radio stations to pay royalties to the artists they play.

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Cleared for Takeoff

Delta and Northwest's CEO-lawyers are smoothing the way for their merger.

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The Power of One

Pfizer took convergence to the ultimate by selecting a single law firm to handle its labor and employment work.

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2008 GC Compensation Survey: Top of the Heap

This year, we ponder such issues as whether CLO salaries track corporate performance-or whether they're immune and on a permanent roll.

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A Promise Is a Promise

The Justice Department pulled its antitrust amnesty deal with Stolt-Nielsen-which then successfully sued to get the feds to live up to their word.

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Vision Qwest

Winner: Best Legal Department. The telecom's legal department gets a makeover-under extreme duress.

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China 2.0

Alibaba goes beyond the China-as-factory model to build an empire in cyberspace.

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The Trial of St. Mark

Jurors thought Hollinger's Mark Kipnis was a nice guy. But that didn't stop them from convicting him for helping flamboyant press boss Conrad Black fleece the company.

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Hard Lessons

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

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Caught in Backdating's Web

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

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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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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. The drug giant's corporate monitor explains how it avoided an Arthur Andersen-like fate.

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