Five LegalTech power users will reveal how they have radically transformed their legal processes at an exclusive event in New York. Top legal names from Microsoft, eBay, Bain & Company, White & Case, and Community Champions will be speaking at the GC TechMasters Summit (29 January 2018) at an intimate event the night before LegalWeek … Continued
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On December 11, LawGeex is launching The In-House Counsel’s Guide to Change Management—a free, downloadable guide revealing how top legal departments are succeeding in a period of unprecedented disruption. To ensure you get your free copy first, as soon as it lands click here. The book includes practical advice based on dozens of interviews and … Continued
In a series of monthly interviews, LawGeex speaks to top In-House Counsel adopting legal technology to enhance productivity. Here, we speak to Chris Newby, General Counsel and Chief Operating Officer at AIG EMEA How is AIG’s in-house team organized? Size and reporting function? I have 70 lawyers in EMEA. I am based in London acting as General … Continued
In the words of Harvard professors, Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani, the contract process now represents “a rush-hour gridlock trapping a Formula 1 race car”. The International Association for Contract & Commercial Management (IACCM) has found that 83% of businesses are dissatisfied with their organization’s contracting process. The time spent on reviewing paperwork sees hard-pressed in-house lawyers blamed … Continued
We asked our friends at the International Association for Contract & Commercial Management (IACCM) how much a contract costs a business. Tim Cummins, President of the IACCM, says inefficiency is pushing up the price of getting a basic contract signed. Here we are in 2017, with businesses focusing on automation and agility. So surely operational … Continued
On October 15-18 in Washington DC more than 4000 of the world’s top in-house counsels gather and debate on the future of law. It is a golden time for the in-house legal profession. Only last week the Financial Times branded in-house lawyers “the new pathfinders”, arguing that “the most innovative legal expertise is often close … Continued
In a series of monthly interviews, LawGeex speaks to top In-House Counsel adopting legal technology to enhance productivity. Here, we speak to Vicky Lockie, Senior Consultant VBL Consulting, and formerly Associate GC at Pearson. What is Pearson and how is its in-house legal team organized? Pearson is the world’s leading learning company, employing more than 35,000 … Continued
Brian Schmidt is Chief of Staff, and former General Counsel at Trello, a visual collaboration tool that creates a shared perspective on projects. Schmidt says Trello “occupies the organizational space between blank canvas-type tools (e.g. a word doc) and a niche-specific, structure-enforcing project management tool (e.g. Salesforce)“. In his role, Shmidt uses the collaboration tool to make his contract … Continued
