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As businesses grow their global footprint, the demand for fast, accurate, low-cost translation is mounting. With pressure coming from stakeholders to increase cross-border transactions in developing countries, legal spend is...Read more

In practise, benchmarking is a comparison method in order to assess and/or to evaluate a performance making a comparison with others performances of the same type. The comparison can be...Read more

Australia has seen a significant growth in the number of corporate counsel over the last 20 years. Companies continue to recognise the value of cultivating legal expertise internally, from better...Read more

There will come a time, if you are in-house, when an issue will cross your desk that you just can’t help but want to take to trial yourself. Maybe the...Read more

Most companies now have fairly extensive enterprise risk management programs. Public companies even have to discuss in their disclosure documents how their programs work. But they obviously aren’t working all...Read more

The Sword vs. the Shield concept, or philosophy, was presented to me in my first year of law school by my contract law professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law, in...Read more

The changing dynamic between inside and outside legal counsel has resulted in a dramatic change in the nature of legal practice. Inside legal counsel is subjected to financial and time...Read more

Australia’s legal profession today has a particularly different look to it than it did a decade or so ago. By and large this is as a result of businesses looking...Read more

I work as an in-house lawyer for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (“EBRD”). As a public institution, EBRD is subject to strict procurement rules whenever it engages contractors....Read more

Mergers and acquisitions professionals often disagree on whether the use of earnouts is advisable for completing business acquisitions. Although earnouts can certainly help the parties complete a deal, experience has...Read more