This post was written by Rob Thomas, vice president of marketing for the Corporate segment of Thomson Reuters On the first day of the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) Annual Meeting, one of the better attended early sessions was Exposing Legal Project Management Myths: The Truth Behind What Works and What Doesn’t. Some of the …
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SEC update from Marc Gold at the ACC Annual Meeting
One of the first sessions at the 2014 ACC annual meeting in New Orleans focused on U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission-related developments over the last 12 months that are applicable to corporate counsel. The panel featured: Marc Gold, senior vice president and associate general counsel, corporate & securities, Thomson Reuters; Atiba Adams, vice president, corporate …
Welcome to the 2014 ACC Annual Meeting
This post was written by Bernadette Bulacan, director of market development at Thomson Reuters The great American author, Tennessee Williams, once proclaimed, “America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.” This week, Thomson Reuters will be at the 2014 Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) Annual Meeting in …
Pangea3 named a 2014 ACC Value Champion
Pangea3, a Thomson Reuters business specializing in global legal outsourcing, was recently named a 2014 Association of Corporation Counsel Value Champion, thanks to its participation in Caterpillar, Inc’s “Re-engineering Legal Support” initiative. Like many of the other legal departments honored, Caterpillar made big strides in process improvement and smarter division of labor. The improvements first …
New corporate white paper: Unbundling of legal services and increasing law department efficiency
Thomson Reuters surveyed nearly 600 in-house attorneys to study law department trends and needs, as well as opportunities to improve the quality of legal counsel that is provided, increase efficiency and reduce costs. Law departments have traditionally performed most tasks in-house assigning a portion of work to outside counsel. Due to increased budgetary pressures, many …
Top ten observations from ACC 2013
This post was written by Bernadette Bulacan, director of Market Development for the Corporate segment of Thomson Reuters A famous song proclaims that “it never rains in Southern California,” which was definitely not the case last week as crowds of corporate counsel converged onto the Los Angeles Convention Center for the 2013 Association of Corporate …
Discussing Business Law Solutions at ACC 2013
This post was written by Jen Merwin, senior marketer for Business Law Solutions at Thomson Reuters The Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) 2013 Annual Meeting is well underway in Los Angeles. Corporate lawyers from around the world are gathered to discuss industry trends, participate in more than 100 CLE/CPD programs, and learn about new solutions. Thomson …
Ten predictive coding concepts
Predictive coding has become a buzzword in e-discovery, but when it comes to taking a close look at implementing e-discovery processes, it can become a daunting topic to tackle. Edward Sohn, assistant vice president of litigation solutions for Pangea3, recently shared ten predictive coding concepts with the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC). These top concepts …
Top takeaways from the 2012 ACC Annual Meeting
Was it the lure of a magical kingdom situated on 30,000 acres of developed swamp land in central Florida? Or perhaps the child-like glee to be experienced upon seeing those famous mouse ears? For more than 1,600 in-house counsel from around the globe, the main attraction was the Association of Corporate Counsel Annual Meeting held …
Innovation and collaboration at ACC
Susan Hackett, CEO and CLO of Legal Executive Leadership, and former general counsel of the Association of Corporate Counsel for more than 20 years, spoke with Legal Current about what she was seeing at the 2012 annual meeting in Orlando, Fla. She shares her insight around the valuable CLE opportunities, the excitement from the show …
