In Part V of this series I offer the last of my guiding observations as you consider consultations with legal counsel: 4. In some circumstances here in the U.S. you may be better off consulting a lawyer in outside, independent, private practice rather than in-house counsel — because of the way…
In Part IV of this series I offer the next of my guiding observations as you consider consultations with legal counsel: 3. Be aware of which legal systems might be used to seek access to information that you want protected. Application of the attorney-client privilege — or its non-U.S. counterparts —…
In Part III of this series I offer the next of my guiding observations as you consider consultations with legal counsel: 2. Once you’ve got the attorney-client privilege, take care to avoid losing it through “waiver”. While in Part II I stated that applying this privilege to a specific situation…
In Part I of this five-part series I wrote that business owners and executives need to take the lead in protecting their companies’ proprietary information — and their own as individuals — from the legal system. And that opposing litigants, criminal prosecutors, and government agencies are all too ready to access…
This five-part series is an extended plea to business owners and executives: Protect your company’s proprietary information — and your own as an individual — from the legal system. Two key points: 1. It’s your job to initiate the conversations with the right lawyers that will secure the protections of…
Last week — when I read that its General Counsel Jeffrey Carr was calling the shots for the law function in targeting 50% savings in Univar’s legal spend — I took notice. I believe that the single most important success factor in the ElevateNext / Elevate Services / Univar collaboration…
The bold collaboration I described in Part I of this series among Univar’s General Counsel Jeffrey Carr, the law firm ElevateNext, and law company Elevate Services is just the latest chapter in legal innovation for each of them. Their respective lengthy and successful records of accomplishment in legal innovation are…
My post two days ago cited an American Bar Association ABA Journal article published just this week about what lawyers want to sell to business: Billable hours. It described the latest and most advanced software for, “ensuring that you capture — and charge for — all of your billable time.”…
Just yesterday the American Bar Association’s ABA Journal posted — under the category “Legal Technology” — an article that described and evaluated some of the latest and most advanced software for the following task performed by attorneys: “These mobile time-tracking tools make it possible to track your time and enter it…
Opening scene: It was a nightmare for my friend Mary. Over the past decade – she and her business partner had created a thriving real estate development firm. With what had been until recently a great working relationship. Now her business partner was in the early stages of Alzheimer’s. Across…