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Keys to the Successful Acquisition of a Foreign Company
Your CEO comes to you and says the company is considering acquiring a company in Europe. What do you do? First of all, you need to determine why your...Read more

Ronald Prague
Executive Vice President & General Counsel, Synchronoss Technologies Inc., USA
Data Analytics: The Future of Legal

During the 2002 season of Major League Baseball (MLB), the Oakland Athletics and New York Yankees both won an astounding 103 games, a feat only topped three times by any...Read more

Jeremiah Chan
Legal Director, Google Inc., USA
eDiscovery for In House Counsel
eDiscovery is on the rise. In 2015, we’ve seen an uptick in data breaches and cybersecurity threats. With the Internet of Things and the information flooding in the cloud and...Read more

Joseph Bambara
Attorney at Law, WithersworldWide/UCNY, USA
Experience: A Patent Infringement Litigation in China
The intellectual property rights (IPR) protection of China has become a worldwide hot topic. China, as a manufacturing giant, will inevitably become a country with a large number of intellectual...Read more
Jeffrey Thurnau
Assistant General Counsel for IP, Gates Corporation, USA
Why Companies Screw Up: It's the Culture... Obviously
As more and more companies have made big compliance mistakes and have been caught by governmental authorities, pundits have been attributing these miscues to company culture. These incidents include the...Read more

David Birk
Managing Director, Black Belt Compliance, LLC, USA
Compensation Philosophy for Inside Counsel: Not as Obvious as You Might Think.jpg&w=256&q=75)
For compensation purposes, most companies probably treat their inside lawyers just like everyone else. This means that they do market studies to determine what “market” compensation is for different levels...Read more
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Mark Ohringer
Global General Counsel, Jones Lang LaSalle, USA
On Giving Advice: Maximizing Value for Your Client

The practice of law is a service. Yet few in-house lawyers are assessed on the quality of their service and fewer still actually inquire about it. After nearly a decade...Read more

Bryan Yeazel
Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer (Former GC), Stock Building Supply Holdings, Inc., USA
'Wrapped' Up: Hidden Terms and the Corporate Risk of Online Contracting

Managing contractual obligations is a key role of in-house legal departments. Many times, the process is clear: prospective agreements are reviewed, and obligations are identified and communicated to the appropriate...Read more
Phil Goodin
Senior Vice President & General Counsel, UnitedLex Corporation, USA

Greg Mitchell
Counsel - Litigation Services, UnitedLex Corporation, USA
Cybersecurity: Overview of United States Guidelines


As the number of high profile data security breach headlines continue to mount around the world, so do the concerns for in-house counsel of how to prevent your company from...Read more

Rachel Stern
Senior Vice President, Strategic Resources, General Counsel , FactSet Research Systems Inc., USA
Dolores Longo
Corporate Attorney and Senior Business Analyst, FactSet Research Systems Inc., USA
Assessing Commercial Success at the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board


U.S. patents increasingly are challenged on validity grounds through inter partes reviews at the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB” or “board”). In fact, from September 2012 through June...Read more
John Jarosz
Managing Principal, Analysis Group, Inc., USA
Robert Vigil
Managing Principal, Analysis Group, Inc., USA