Corporate Legal

Law Firms Keep Losing Business to In-House Competitors

Even as the legal market begins to improve, law firms are losing out to in-house legal departments, a recent survey has found. The legal consulting…

Casey Sullivan June 18, 2015

Q&A Interview: Law Firms Need to be Pushed by Clients to Embrace Cybersecurity, says Segway’s Shariati

At the Legal Executive Institute’s 5th Annual Law Firm CFO/CIO/COO Forum, held last week in New York, law firm leaders, corporate counsels and cybersecurity experts…

Behrooz Shariati June 10, 2015

Law Firm CFO/CIO/COO Forum: Making your Firm Aware of the Role Cybersecurity Plays

NEW YORK—The role of those who guard the cyber-gates of a company, and especially a law firm, is one of constant vigilance and monitoring even…

Gregg Wirth June 03, 2015

Top 10 e-Discovery Trends in the U.S. in 2015

The overarching theme for 2015 in e-discovery will be continuity. It is highly unlikely that the market will develop game-changing, net-new e-discovery innovation, but—as is…

Edward Sohn May 21, 2015

Practicing In-house: Navigating Potential Internal Conflicts of Interest

In the wake of the corporate scandals in the late 1990s and early 2000s involving misappropriation of resources, bribery, fraud, breach of fiduciary duties, and…

Renato Pontello May 14, 2015

Lessons from a Few GCs

I recently had the opportunity to attend the Legal Marketing Association’s Annual Conference in San Diego. Like so many of these events, the content as…

Bill Josten May 13, 2015

Stanford’s FutureLaw Moves into the Mainstream, Enticing Big Law and Big Ideas

The recent FutureLaw conference at Stanford's CodeX Center for Legal Informatics could have been at a sort of crossroads. FutureLaw is in many ways the…

David Curle May 11, 2015

Transforming Women’s Leadership in the Law

The content on the Transforming Women’s Leadership in the Law page will highlight organizations’ successes in removing barriers to the advancement women and spotlight some of the…

Charlotte Rushton May 09, 2015

The ABA Turns Up the Heat on Legal Service Innovation

The American Bar Association (ABA) conducted a National Summit on Innovation in Legal Services this past weekend at the Stanford Law School. It was a…

Ralph Baxter May 05, 2015

Canadian Legal Technology: Disrupting or Just Evolving?

Corporate law departments under pressure to cut costs may be the main driver behind a revolution in the provision of legal services, but when it…

Jennifer Brown April 29, 2015

Looking Ahead… Welcome (Back) to the New Legal Executive Institute

We are delighted to roll out our new Legal Executive Institute web site. Its fresh look and improved functionality reflect the spirit with which we…

Ralph Baxter April 24, 2015

Breathing New Life Into Professionalism in the Practice of Law

Something important happened at the Harvard Law School on April 10. More than 100 leaders from across the spectrum of legal service came together to…

Ralph Baxter April 21, 2015