In this CCBJ interview, Olivera Medenica, a partner with Dunnington, Bartholow & Miller, discusses her decidedly non-traditional career path and approach to leadership.
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Drive Success with Process-Focused Decisions
In this interview with Corporate Counsel Business Journal, Alexandra Guajardo, Pricing & Analytics Officer at Shell, and Jared Applegate, Chief Legal Operations Officer with Barnes & Thornburg, discuss the challenges and opportunities inherent in legal technology solutions.…
Trust, Not Tech: Why In-house Teams Are Reluctant Software Buyers
In this interview with Corporate Counsel Business Journal, Melanie Shafer, vice president of customer success and professional services with SimpleLegal, an Onit company, discusses the risks and opportunities corporate law departments face when purchasing software.…
GCs Should Flex Muscles with Flexible Talent
“Overbill me once, shame on you. Overbill me twice, shame on me. Overbill me now – when I have a lot more work and a lot less budget – and it’s time for change,” writes David McVeigh, CEO of Axiom.…
The Humanity of the Managed Review Temp
In this piece from Corporate Counsel Business Journal, Todd Purdy, VP of Epiq, discusses “myth-busting” data points derived from his experience with e-discovery review teams in the U.S. and India. “When you approach a vendor for managed review of documents…
Embrace Technologization
In this piece from Corporate Counsel Business Journal, Herman Raspé, a partner at Patterson Bellknap and chair of the World Services Group Board of Directors, discusses a wide range of topics, including the “technologization” of the legal profession. One hurdle…
Automation: Not Solely an Efficiency Play
In this piece from veteran legal industry observer, Eyal Iffergan, managing director for Epiq’s legal business advisory practice, the legal transformation wave disperses as it progresses.…
Efficiency Emerges as Top Law Department Priority
During the pandemic, corporate law departments, forced to change, gathered, to varying degrees, forward thrust. “The most successful law departments will be those that leverage the momentum of the past two years to actively embrace transformative change, in how they…
Whither Tech?
In the latest edition of Harvard Business Review, the leaders of McKinsey’s technology practice get down to the tricky but serious business of “separating real innovation from hot air.” That’s the difference between a big win and a costly flop.…
ALSPs: Zooming into Hyperdrive
According to the 2023 edition of the biennial report on Alternative Legal Services Providers published by Thomson Reuters Institute, the Center on Ethics and the Legal Profession at Georgetown Law, and the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford, the…