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Optimizing the Legal Spend: A Better Approach for GCs

Given the current state of law firm economics and the surge in demand for legal services, those in charge of corporate legal departments would be wise to reframe their fiscal mandates. Instead of looking to take a hatchet to their budgets for outside counsel, GCs should be focused on optimizing the legal spend and viewing their lawyers and law firms as assets to be leveraged. But how can GCs derive a return on their legal spend investments?

By Seth Darmstadter

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Series on Contracting Challenges: It Is All About the Process

By Lucy Bassli

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Law.com Trendspotter: Labyrinthian Outside Counsel Guidelines Are Straining Law Firm-Client Relations

By Zack Needles

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Time to Reconsider Training for the Future of the Legal Industry

By Louise Firestone and Memme Onwudiwe

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Beyond the Mission Statement

Trendspotter: In a Booming Legal Tech Market, Buyer (and Seller) Beware

There has never before been such a plethora of legal technology options on the market. Whether or not that's a good thing, however, depends on your perspective.

By Zack Needles

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What In-House Leaders Have Learned From Remote Working

By Phillip Bantz

CORPORATE COUNSEL ADVANCE

Embracing Antifragility and Navigating Black Swan Events

By Abigail Harris

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'Everyone Is Entitled to a Work-Life Balance': KBC Group GC on New Ways of Working

By Linda A. Thompson

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Lean Adviser GC

GC to Outside Counsel: Embrace Data, Technology to Help Me Drive Strategy

Technology generates data for lawyers to harness, as well as helping them to automate tasks that can be done more efficiently. So higher-value lawyers focus first on figuring out what your priorities and strategies are, and then the means to mine, analyze, and act on the data that helps deliver them.

By Lean Adviser GC

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GC to Outside Counsel: Communicate the Right Way to Provide Value

By Lean Adviser GC

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GC to Outside Counsel: Give Me Value Adds That Are Actually Useful to Me

By Lean Adviser GC

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GC to Outside Counsel: Be There for Me, Have My Back and Never Blindside Me

By Lean Adviser GC

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Women, Influence & Power in Law (WIPL)

From GC to CEO: Another Company Promotes Their Head of Legal to Lead the Company

Luisa Suárez has helped transform Vitalmex from a family-run services firm to a private equity-backed multinational since joining in 2014.

By Amy Guthrie

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Title Insurance Giant First American Promotes Company Veteran to CLO

By Trudy Knockless

Private Equity Firm One Rock Hires JP Morgan Lawyer as GC

By Trudy Knockless

NASCAR Lawyer Exits for First Ever General Counsel Role at Opendorse

By Phillip Bantz

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