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Zero to Hero: Legal Ops Leaders Discuss How to Start an Operations Program From Scratch

Caroline Spiezio | April 24, 2018

At CLOC's annual conference in Las Vegas this week, Mike Haven of The Gap and Steve Harmon of Cisco Systems gave some pointers on how to build an ops function where there wasn't one before. "It’s not a sprint, it’s a marathon," Haven said.

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In-House Leaders at Starbucks, Northwestern Mutual Share Diversity & Inclusion Tips

Caroline Spiezio | April 24, 2018

Lisa Kremer Brown of Starbucks, Lisa Brzycki of Northwestern Mutual and other legal department decision-makers shared their best diversity strategies at the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium's annual institute.

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SEC Wallops Yahoo With $35M Penalty Over Breach Disclosures—or Lack Thereof

Ross Todd | April 24, 2018

The company, now known as Altaba, has settled SEC claims that it misled investors about a 2014 data breach which affected more than 500 million user accounts.

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Airline Bankruptcy Lands Lawyer CEO in Contempt

Scott Flaherty | April 24, 2018

A regional airline's bankruptcy case has put the CEO, an attorney and son of a prominent Louisiana lawyer and political fundraiser, on the hook for contempt.

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Maybe AI Can’t Do Everything, but Corporate Legal’s Still Trying to Adopt

Zach Warren | April 24, 2018

Legal operations directors from Walmart and Nationwide gave their artificial intelligence adoption strategies at the 2018 CLOC Conference.

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Microsoft Appoints Dev Stahlkopf as New General Counsel, Reporting to CLO Brad Smith

Sue Reisinger | April 24, 2018

Stahlkopf will be in charge of most of the tech behemoth's legal work in her new position.

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Del. Supreme Court Upholds Discount in Appraisal Lawsuit Stemming From Telecom Deal

Tom McParland | April 24, 2018

The Delaware Supreme Court on Monday upheld a Delaware Court of Chancery ruling that found Sprint's $3.6 billion acquisition of telecommunications firm Clearwire in 2013 had valued Clearwire at more than twice what it was actually worth.

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Margo Smith Leaves Apttus After 10 Months for Snowflake Computing

Stephanie Forshee | April 24, 2018

Smith replaces Barbara Walkowski in the CLO role at the cloud-based data warehousing company.

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When it Comes to Diversity, Female GCs Want More Than Mere 'Tokenism' From Outside Firms

Caroline Spiezio | April 23, 2018

At the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium's annual institute in Las Vegas, top female in-house lawyers explained what they want from outside firms. To impress these powerful attorneys, it's clear law firms will need to practice what they preach on diversity.

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Fourth Circuit Rejects Appeal of Decision Nixing Table-Saw Antitrust Claims

Michael Riccardi | April 23, 2018

The Fourth Circuit held that Oregon-based saw-maker SawStop's allegations that the companies had colluded to boycott its patented injury-prevention technology were barred by the four-year statute of limitations for antitrust claims.

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10 Reasons To Be Glad You're Not An In-House Lawyer at Michigan State University

Sue Reisinger | April 23, 2018

The university where Larry Nassar abused athletes for two decades is facing investigations on almost every imaginable level.

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Contracts Are More Than a Document: Finding the Value in Your Data

Zach Warren | April 23, 2018

A 2018 CLOC panel explored how to use data like contracts and intellectual property to drive company value outside of common legal work.

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Lawyers Continue to Dominate Legal Ops Role, CLOC Study Shows

Stephanie Forshee | April 23, 2018

New data from CLOC and LawGeex shows that attorneys are parlaying their skills into legal ops roles.

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#MeToo Comes to CLOC, as Female In-House Leaders Share Their Stories of Workplace Sexism

Caroline Spiezio | April 23, 2018

On its opening day, the CLOC Institute featured a frank discussion between female in-house leaders about gender and the very real problems they've faced in their careers just because they are women.

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Standardized Legal Security Assessment Should Be Reality, Says CLOC

Zach Warren | April 22, 2018

An opening-day session from the 2018 CLOC Conference explored the potential for a streamlined cybersecurity questionnaire from the corporate legal department and law firm perspective.

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What Peabody Energy’s GC Expects From Outside Counsel

Stephanie Forshee | April 20, 2018

Peabody’s chief legal officer Verona Dorch and one of her outside firm partners, Joe Glynias of Husch Blackwell, told Corporate Counsel how the firm made it on to the energy company's latest panel, and how they've used the opportunity to work together in new and interesting ways.

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In-House Leaders From Facebook, Uber and Others Discuss the Complexity of Consent in GDPR

Caroline Spiezio | April 20, 2018

Are companies seeking too much consent to process data? Too little? It's a situation that poses challenges for in-house lawyers far and wide.

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Documents: Feds Hit Wells Fargo for $1B Penalty for Consumer Abuses

Mike Scarcella | April 20, 2018

The $1 billion penalty imposed by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau marks the largest in the agency's history.

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Amid Nassar Sex Scandal, MSU General Counsel Received $436,000 Severance Deal

Sue Reisinger | April 19, 2018

Robert Noto left Michigan State University under less than ideal circumstances earlier this year. But he was still paid handsomely on his departure.

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Singapore GCs Eyeing Higher Impact, Chief Executive Roles, Report Finds

Stephanie Forshee | April 19, 2018

General counsel in the city-state seem to be an ambitious bunch—and may have their eyes on the CEO or COO's chair.

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A Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower’s Challenge to Social Media Collection

Ian Lopez | April 19, 2018

A veteran of data collection for political campaigns and social media, Brittany Kaiser says technologies like smart contracts can help build a framework for personal data as personal property.

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New Guide Warns GCs of Anti-Corruption Compliance Challenges in Latin America

Caroline Spiezio | April 19, 2018

New anti-corruption laws are taking hold in Latin America, and GCs, even those based in the United States, should take note.

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Southwest Airlines Passengers Looking to Lawyer Up After Emergency Landing

Samantha Joseph | April 18, 2018

Less than 24 hours after a Dallas-bound Southwest Airlines jet made an emergency landing in Philadelphia Tuesday, attorney Ladd Sanger had already fielded two calls from passengers.

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Former ClearSlide GC Olga Mack Joins Quantstamp as VP of Strategy

Caroline Spiezio | April 18, 2018

Mack, who was formerly in-house at ClearSlide and Zoosk, was going to take some time off, but then found a job that she couldn't turn down.

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Breast Implants Maker Names First GC

Kristen Rasmussen | April 18, 2018

Jeremy Livianu comes to New York City-based Establishment Labs Holdings Inc. from Redwood City, California's Nevro Corp., where he built the legal department from scratch and helped take the company public.

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Retail GCs Now Waiting for Supreme Court Decision in Online Sales Tax Case

Stephanie Forshee | April 18, 2018

In-house legal leaders had plenty to say about South Dakota v. Wayfair. Oral arguments in the case were heard on Tuesday at the Supreme Court.

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Microsoft, Cisco and 32 Other Companies Sign 'Cybersecurity Tech Accord' to Build Global Trust

Caroline Spiezio | April 17, 2018

"By putting ourselves out there in this way, it will result in civil society and other organizations looking for other ways to hold the industry to account, in an age where talk is cheap," Cisco GC Mark Chandler told Corporate Counsel on Tuesday.

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Experts: Hackers, Insiders and Regulators Are Among Companies' Biggest Threats

Kristen Rasmussen | April 17, 2018

In-house data privacy and other cybersecurity experts spoke during a panel discussion at the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association’s Southeast Regional Conference in Atlanta last week.

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US Slaps China's ZTE Corp. With Export Ban Over False Statements

Sue Reisinger | April 17, 2018

The move was spurred by the government's assertion that, contrary to terms of a 2017 settlement, ZTE paid full bonuses to employees that had engaged in illegal conduct and failed to issue letters of reprimand.

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Tales From the Legal Tech Startup Community: Fundraising While Pregnant

Gabrielle Orum Hernández | April 17, 2018

Basha Rubin and Mirra Levitt, the co-founders of Priori Legal, managed to land a major tech incubator investment, but dealing with fundraising and pregnancy at the same time wasn't easy.

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Employees Sue Security Analyst Behind Infamous Spying Claims, Raising New Issues for Uber

Stephanie Forshee | April 17, 2018

Though Uber is not a named defendant in the complaint, experts said the company will still have plenty of work on its hands in dealing with a defamation suit recently filed against former Uber security analyst Richard Jacobs.

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U.S. Steel Finds Its New General Counsel in Duane Holloway

Stephanie Forshee | April 17, 2018

Holloway most recently led the legal department at Ascena Retail Group.

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Supreme Court Ruling Ends Microsoft Email Privacy Case

Tony Mauro | April 17, 2018

“No live dispute remains between the parties over the issue with respect to which certiorari was granted,” the court stated in a three-page order.

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Microsoft Attorney Julie Brill Announces Parent Consent Plan to Comply With GDPR

Sue Reisinger | April 16, 2018

Microsoft is again offering the public some insights into its plan to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation, which goes into effect in May.

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An Exxon Mobil In-House Leader Looks Back: A Q&A With JoAnn Lee

Rebekah Mintzer | April 16, 2018

Lee, a veteran of the legal department at Exxon Mobil, has a lot to say about the law and the legal profession's persistent diversity problem.

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Delta's Top Lawyer 'Begging' for Project-Based Billing

Kristen Rasmussen | April 16, 2018

The issue of alternative fee arrangements was among many topics that Delta’s Peter Carter and other top lawyers at Fortune 500 companies, including UPS, AIG and Union Pacific, discussed during a panel at the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association’s Southeast Regional Conference in Atlanta last week.

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Wells Fargo in Talks With Regulators Seeking $1B in Sanctions

Sue Reisinger | April 13, 2018

The troubled bank reported in its first quarter financial results that it may be taking another big hit from regulators.

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With GDPR Fast Approaching, How Should Companies Fill the Data Protection Officer Role?

Caroline Spiezio | April 13, 2018

Many companies will need to hire or appoint a data protection officer under GDPR. But who should they go for?

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China Hacks on US Corporations Rising, With Law Firms, GCs Prime Targets

Ian Lopez | April 13, 2018

While China has been largely compliant with an agreement with the U.S. to not hack for intellectual property, new data indicates M&A info and contracts are viewed as fair game.

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VirnetX Scores $502.5M Verdict Against Apple

Scott Graham | April 12, 2018

It's the second nine-figure verdict obtained by the company and its Caldwell Cassady & Curry lawyers in the last year. But Apple says the PTAB has already invalidated all of the patents.

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In Expanded Uber Settlement, FTC Hammers Home Security Message

Ben Hancock | April 12, 2018

The regulator warned tech companies to make sure their software development environments are secure. Uber's 2016 breach came after an engineer stored an access key to a cloud database in code hosted on GitHub.

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Business Groups Sound Alarm as EU Proposes Law to Permit Consumer Class Actions

Sue Reisinger | April 12, 2018

Lisa Rickard, president of the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform, worried the proposal "could make the EU a major global hub for abusive litigation."

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The Reviews Are in for Zuck: His Big Performance Sounded Scripted, But Is That Bad?

Caroline Spiezio | April 12, 2018

Attorneys and other experts weighed in on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's big week in D.C., explaining how some facets of his testimony proved effective, while others may not have worked as well.

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5 Takeaways From IPForward's 2018 Conference

Caroline Spiezio | April 12, 2018

Here's some of the knowledge that a high-profile group of in-house IP specialists shared at the San Mateo conference on Wednesday.

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Deadline for The American Lawyer Awards Approaching

Gina Passarella Cipriani | April 12, 2018

Check out the categories in our American Lawyer Awards for which submissions are due week. Some exciting new opportunities for those in the industry to show how they are revolutionizing the way legal services are delivered.

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PTO Director: 'Something Must Be Done' to Clarify Section 101

Scott Graham | April 11, 2018

In a speech to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Andrei Iancu also promised wide-ranging review of Patent Trial and Appeal Board operations and standards.

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HHS Lawyer Now Agency's Acting Assistant Secretary for Administration

Kristen Rasmussen | April 11, 2018

HHS Principal Deputy General Counsel Heather Flick will fill the role until that position is filled permanently. She previously served as HHS’ acting general counsel.

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Illinois Biometric Privacy Law—and Effort to Carve Out Exceptions—Gets Moment in Spotlight at Facebook Hearing

Ross Todd | April 10, 2018

Business interests are aiming to roll back portions of an Illinois law meant to protect biometric identifiers such as fingerprints and facial structure.

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Mark Zuckerberg Brings In-House Legal, Lobbying Entourage to Capitol Hill

C. Ryan Barber | April 10, 2018

As he testifies before nearly half the U.S. Senate, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has his company’s in-house legal and lobbying teams at his back.

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DXC's Jim Gallagher Named General Counsel of New IT Services Company

Sue Reisinger | April 10, 2018

Gallagher will join Perspecta, which will be formed through the merger of DXC and two other businesses.

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