Data on average contract review times by legal departments, but hard to draw a conclusion from it13 Feb 2012

The data reported in Exari’s white paper, Corporate Counsel Contracts Survey Report, Dec. 2011 at 8, appears impressive but upon reflection offers little insight. The company's recent survey of approximately 100 legal departments asked them to esti...

Who wins the battle of the paper; a quarter of all contracts get no review by an in-house lawyer13 Feb 2012

Exari’s white paper, Corporate Counsel Contracts Survey Report, Dec. 2011 at 7, draws on responses from approximately 100 companies. They report that "an average of 67% of their contracts is created on their own paper and 35% of those agreements......

Technology pressures and burdens in-house lawyers, but also offers compensating advantages13 Feb 2012

For all that inside counsel groan about the increasing pace of their work, a pace accelerated frequently by technology, the self-same tools enable them to keep up. It's true that e-mail bombards, instant messages ping, cell phones ring, and PDFs... ...

Rees Morrison’s Morsels #165: the long and the short of it9 Feb 2012

UK matter management software. The UK’s largest friendly society LV= (aka the Liverpool & Victoria) has implemented Proclaim case management software from Eclipse Legal Systems for its inhouse legal and secretariat team to support internal clie...

Government regulations can help law departments, too!9 Feb 2012

Very commonly general counsel and business executives complain vociferously about “regulatory overload.” Spewing out every year hundreds or thousands of new laws, regulations agency practices hobble business. The burden rises – but you know abo...

UBS, Foreclosure Accord, Berezovsky, Commerzbank, MF Global in Court News - Bloomberg31 Jan 2012

UBS, Foreclosure Accord, Berezovsky, Commerzbank, MF Global in Court NewsBloombergThe regulator has invoked the law in at least three other pending cases. The legal battle, which both the SFC and Tiger Asia's founder Bill Hwang have pledged to take to Hong Kong's top court, will determine whether the agency can sue independently for ...and more »

Trustees explain decision to fire Joe Paterno - The Boston Globe19 Jan 2012

The Boston GlobeTrustees explain decision to fire Joe PaternoThe Boston Globe(Baldwin had sat in on the grand jury testimony but was not legally allowed to speak to the trustees about the contents of the testimony, according to Lanny J. Davis, external counsel and crisis management to the office of the Penn State's president ...and more »