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Getting to the Heart of The Business: How Legal is Moving up The Value Chain: Driving Efficiency and Effectiveness in a Global Legal Team

Abstract

In the post financial crisis world of greater regulatory scrutiny and a stronger focus on corporate governance and compliance, the enforced modus operandi for many legal and regulatory teams is to do more work with the same - or fewer - resources. At the same time, as commercial and competitive pressures grow, companies are increasingly expecting their legal teams to be true business enablers - dispelling perceptions of “Legal” as business blockers. Indeed, in many organisations today, the legal team has become far more involved in the broader business strategic agenda, either through necessity or proactive inclusion, and, in the process, has moved up the value chain.

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Ruth Daniels
General Counsel, CPA Global Management Services Limited, UK

As General Counsel, Ruth Daniels has global responsibility for CPA Global's legal function, which includes IP Legal Services. Ruth brings a strong legal and commercial management background to the Company, with particular experience in the e-commerce, technology, multimedia and social networking sectors. She began her legal career with DLA Piper in the UK, where she originally qualified as an IP lawyer, before moving in-house.

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CPA Global Management Services Limited

CPA Global is the world's leading intellectual property (IP) management and IP software specialist, and an international provider of outsourced legal services. With offices across Europe, the United States and Asia Pacific, CPA Global supports many of the world’s best known corporations and law firms with a range of IP and broader legal services, helping them to manage risk, cost and capacity, and realise greater value for their businesses and IP assets. CPA Global helps corporates and law firms in managing valuable IP Rights, such as patents, designs and trademarks, ensuring that IP portfolios are protected, maintained and regularly reviewed in order to maximise value. Working closely with its clients, CPA Global ensures they have the best information on which to base IP decisions, and the best support in terms of helping implement those decisions. Services include patent portfolio optimisation; patent research and analytics; patent and trademark renewals; as well as other IP support services such as docketing, trademark watching and domains management. In IP software, CPA Global offers four market-leading IP management software solutions (FoundationIP, Inprotech, Ipendo, and Memotech) tailored towards different types of clients and their specific needs; First To File, the market-leading electronic document management system for IP; as well as Discover, one of the world’s most advanced patent search platforms. CPA Global is also a leading player in the outsourced legal services sector, providing high quality and cost-efficient legal support services such as transaction support, contract management, anti-bribery and compliance, and legal research through delivery centres in the US and India. Founded in Jersey, Channel Islands in 1969, CPA Global today employs more than 1,700 people, serving clients’ needs in 200 jurisdictions through its own offices and an extensive agent network. CPA Global’s diverse client list ranges from major global corporations, headquartered in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific, to small and medium-sized enterprises and innovation start-ups; and from top international law firms to national and regional law and IP firms.

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