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ATLANTA, March 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ A recent survey by the Association of Corporate Counsel Georgia Chapter and its in-kind sponsor and communications agency, Poston Communications, highlights a shift in the role of in-house counsel.
Distributed in January, the survey, titled The Role of In-House Legal Counsel in Corporate Communications, assessed ACC Georgia members responsibilities overseeing corporate communication, the integration of legal and corporate communication departments, and their knowledge of and comfort executing communications initiatives on behalf of their organizations.
This quick-pulse data reinforces current trends in cross-functional collaboration as all consumer markets continue to become more belief-driven and shareholder value is increasingly derived from community engagement.
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On a weekly basis, I receive multiple emails about how to make the transition from law firm lawyer to an in-house counsel and how to write a legal resume that properly conveys those transferable skills. Before you begin writing and retargeting your legal resume, it’s important to carefully distinguish between the nuances of the different skills in law firm roles versus corporate counsel roles.
In my own decade-plus legal career, I worked in law firms and served as in-house counsel to two companies (a privately held one and a Fortune 200 one). Today, more than 60% of my clients are attorneys 80% are senior corporate counsels, general counsels, and chief legal officers with an average of 15-to-20-plus years of experience at multinational companies, private equity companies, and start-ups. Their career trajectories often run the gamut of corporate strategy, financial transactions, contract negotiations, governance, comp
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When parties choose arbitration to resolve their IP disputes, there are certitudes to guide them on arbitration law and procedure, and how their case will be handled: the courts will help enforce their arbitration clause; an impartial tribunal will be selected to judge the case without a jury; and the final award will be widely enforceable in the signatory nations of the New York Convention.
[2] But the details of what the particular procedure will be like are often not well known in advance, and in no area are these uncertainties greater than in the procedure the tribunal will adopt for the most important phase of fact-finding in IP and other disputes: disclosure and discovery – that is, the exchange among the parties of relevant documentary and testimonial evidence that can be used to build, or confirm, the legal arguments in the case.
March 08 2021
The proportion of women in senior
management roles globally stood at 29% in 2020, according to advisory firm
Grant Thornton. This compares with 30% in the EU, 29% in North America and 27%
in Asia-Pacific. Female leaders around the world have told IFLR that gender
diversity in senior management is improving but there is a lot more to be done,
especially when it comes to company and government policies that can help.
Women on the world stage
An unmistakably positive trend has been the rise of female role models
in positions of power around the world. These include European Central Bank
president Christine Lagarde, IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva, EU