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Making the Leap: Being a Lawyer in a Non-Legal Role

Maybe the business unit you support as in-house counsel is so impressed with your work that they want you to join them. Maybe you work long hours and look longingly...Read more

Erika Ringseis
Manager, Compliance, Diversity & Mobility , TransCanada PipeLines Limited, Canada
Consigliere, Juggler and Business Partner - Today's In House Lawyer
“…I don't want a Lawyer to tell me what I cannot do; I hire him to tell me how to do what I want to do.”
J.P. Morgan’s thoughts...Read more
Faiz Chapra
General Manager Legal, Engro Corporation, Pakistan
Public Enemy Number One: The Current Standing of Banks in the United States

Since the financial meltdown of 2008, highlighted by the Lehman Brothers collapse on September 15, the standing of banks in the United States has declined precipitously, with no current prospects...Read more
Bruce Ortwine
General Counsel (retired), Americas; Adviser, Global Legal and Compliance (Retired), Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Limited and Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings, Inc., USA
Consumer Empowerment in The Internet of Things: A Silent Unfolding of a 'New Normal' Where Code Trumps Rights?
The Internet of Things (IoT) is already here, estimated to encompass just short of 30 billion connected devices by 2020. These devices are made up of a physical object;...Read more

Hanne Melin Olbe
Director Global Public Policy, eBay Inc., Switzerland
Electronic Money: Special Aspects of Legal Regulation in Russia
The regulatory sphere of electronic money rose in 2011 by adoption of the Federal Law ? 161-FZ of June 27, 2011 “On the national payment system” (hereinafter referred to as...Read more

Valeria Steblyuk
Senior Lawyer of Legal Department, Commercial Bank “Garanti Bank - Moscow” (ZAO), Russian Federation
Trade Secret Mediation: A Mediator's Perspective
Trade secret litigation often involves deep levels of distrust, heated emotional exchanges, suspicion and anger on the part of parties and counsel. One source of the problem lies at the...Read more

Erica Bristol
Intellectual Property Attorney, Mediator, EB Resolution Services, USA
Governance and Organisational Dilemmas in Building up Your
Due Diligence Process

In modern corporate times, due diligence investigations into third parties cannot be left solely to the initiative of the virtuous employee or to the goodwill of the competent manager. They...Read more

Lorenzo Mecocci
Senior Legal & Compliance Counsel, Aerospace & Defence, Sirio Panel S.p.A., Italy
Regulation of Hybrid Financial Instruments Proposed by the OECD
Nowadays, more and more companies are involved in cross-boarder transactions. One of the mechanisms to obtain tax advantages from such transactions is the usage of hybrid financial instruments. In last...Read more

Ekaterina Pleskova
Tax Analyst, Netherlands
Contract Drafting and Negotiation in Multiple Languages
Having managed legal and contractual matters in multiple jurisdictions, I have heard over the past years many professionals based in the US and in the UK raising this usual question:...Read more
Pablo Cilotta
International Senior Legal Counsel & Head of Contract Management (EMEA & Latin America), Argentina
Bounds and Pitfalls When Splitting the Choice of Law 
For most in-house lawyers dealing with international contracts is a daily and ordinary task. In the multi-state context where the contract has a connection to more than one jurisdiction the...Read more

Andreas Schønbeck
Attorney-at-law, Vestas Wind Systems A/S, Denmark