Today’s edition of The Wall Street Journal includes yet another great article (most of it subscription protected) about companies continuing their efforts to push big law firms to abandon the billable hour fee structure in lieu of flat or fixed fees based … Continue reading
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Can I prohibit my employees from discussing any and all information regarding the company, its business plans, its partners, its policies, new business efforts etc?
By Karen Ward. The surprising answer is no. A Federal District Court ruled that employees could reasonably interpret the rules unqualified prohibition of the release of “any information” regarding “its partners” to unlawfully restrict employees’ discussion of wages and other … Continue reading
Use of Interim Executives
Cerius Interim Executive Solutions has a great white paper called ” Top 8 Reasons Why Leadership On-Demand Makes Economic Sense Today” which makes outstanding points (eight of them) of the economic benefits of using interim executives. Let me know … Continue reading
WHAT A GENERAL COUNSEL CAN DO FOR A CEO
In today’s economic times, CEO’s of emerging and mid-sized companies can ill-afford to incur unanticipated risks or see a badly structured transaction or contract erode hard-earned company profits. That is one of the many reasons that a CEO’s team should … Continue reading
How to Cost Effectively Manage Legal Issues
Last month, there was an excellent article in the New York Times about the imminent death of the billable hour at law firms. It identified the common complaint of law firm clients that the practice of billable hours can encourage … Continue reading
Cost-effective In-house Legal Solutions
Jason Mendelson at Mendelson’s Musings discusses his frustration about start-up lawyers and raises many significant issues that start-up companies and in-house counsel have been trying to address for many years – the high cost and opportunity lost of traditional law … Continue reading
The Overburdened CFO
A recent white paper from Tatum, LLC describes today’s CFO as being under “intensifying performance pressure”, at “high risk, and with a job “virtually impossible for one person to do”. In the face of these ever growing burdens, Tatum calls … Continue reading
In-House Counsel – The Risk Increases
The Legal Affairs column in the August 6, 2007 issue of BusinessWeek contains a chilling message for in-house counsel. It discusses the fact that a former in-house attorney at Hollinger International, Inc. was convicted by the same jury that convicted … Continue reading
In-house Counsel Bloggers
There is a very good discussion by Dominic Jarr on his blog about some of the potential reasons why in-house counsel may not be active bloggers. I think that all of the reasons he discusses are good ones but I … Continue reading
How In-house Counsel Make Sense of Litigation
Mike Dillion, Sun Micro’s GC, had a great post on his The Legal Thing blog yesterday. The post, titled Litigation…(Azul) illustrates the value of having a business-savvy GC.