In-house counsel are paying close attention to recent developments in a proposed class action lawsuit in Pennsylvania state court, in which a plaintiff is attempting to prevent ESPN from enforcing a binding arbitration agreement in a data privacy dispute. ESPN...
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) relies on the Justice Manual to guide prosecutors through specific factors they should consider in conducting an investigation of a company, determining whether to bring charges, and negotiating pleas or other agreements. Among...
Organized labor is riding a wave in successful union organizing in 2022, after years of declining influence. Between October 2021 and March 2022, union representation petitions filed at the U.S. National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) increased 57% from the same...
By Catriona Collins Intellectual property assets long ago supplanted physical assets as the most valuable components of the typical corporate balance sheet. A recent analysis of the 500 largest public companies in America indicates the dramatic scope of that...
By Randi-Lynn Smallheer and Anna Haliotis The waves of commercial litigation triggered by the impact of COVID-19 continue to build and crash ashore. Corporate legal departments in every industry are seeing a pace and volume of lawsuits related to the pandemic...
By Timothy Haney In the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, corporate legal professionals engaged in months of speculation about how the Biden Administration might bring a different approach to antitrust enforcement than we saw in recent years. We now...
By Aba Acquaah Today’s increased corporate focus on climate change, social justice, diversity and inclusion, and overall employee wellness corresponds with an added company stakeholder push to strengthen environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG...
By Randi-Lynn Smallheer The new Biden-Harris Administration has signaled its intentions to intensify government oversight in a number of industries and most major law firms with government investigations practices are forecasting that a sea change is on the way...
By: Elias Kahn , Esq., Sr. Product Manager Labor & Employment, Tax, and Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation There was no corporate legal department manual for how to navigate the past year. The COVID-19 pandemic was a true black swan event that...
By Meg Vernal and Caroline Yoon In-house legal departments are reporting an increase in corporate transactions as the global economy rebounds from the pandemic-induced reduction in M&A activity, according to Gartner’s 2021 survey of corporate legal...
By: Randi-Lynn Smallheer The Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC) released its 2021 State of the Industry Report in May, which revealed a stunning shift in priorities for in-house legal departments this year. CLOC’s new survey found that six in...
By: Chad Perlov Businesses around the world are fighting a common battle against an exponentially growing wave of cybersecurity threats. In fact, 87% of organizations have already experienced an attempted exploit of an existing vulnerability, according to a recent...
Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of one-on-one interviews with leaders of corporate legal departments in the U.S. This month we spoke to Kermit Lowery, who is retiring in June 2021 after a 33-year career at LexisNexis. Kermit has served as the...
Editor’s Note: This is the latest installment in a series of one-on-one interviews with leaders of corporate legal departments in the U.S. This month we spoke to David A. Green, who is General Counsel of the National Bar Association, the nation’s oldest...
Editor’s Note: This is the latest installment in a series of one-on-one interviews with leaders of corporate legal departments in the U.S. This month we spoke to Bruce Jackson, who is Associate General Counsel of Microsoft Corporation, the largest software...