LegalTech West Coast and Law Department Operations.
Jason Emanis
Just got back from LegalTech West Coast where Law Department Operations had a measurable presence. With a 2-day track focused on in-house department operations, there was plenty of education and networking to be had.
So, what or who, has been the impetus behind ALM’s newfound love for corporate department operations given their historical focus on lawyering, and, oh yeah, eDiscovery? It started with John Barber way back before LegalTech New York 2012. John is the Law Operations Senior Manager for Amgen, Inc. John has a passion for his role in the marketplace and wants nothing more than to bring his peers together so that they might learn from each other. And, of course, he has not done it alone. He reached out to the “who’s who” in law operations. (read the post)
Leadership workshop grooms women for the GC role
InsideCounsel will host a seminar on the West Coast for women in corporate legal departments
Julie Beck, InsideCounsel
InsideCounsel, in conjunction with the California Minority Counsel Program, is sponsoring the Project 5/165 Leadership Development Workshop on June 4 in San Francisco. Project 5/165 is dedicated to increasing the number of women general counsel in the Fortune 500 (sign up to receive monthly updates from Project 5/165 here), and this workshop is designed to help groom women in corporate legal departments to become the next generation of general counsel. (read the article)
Two simple ways to increase your creativity – vary what you learn and learn in various places
Rees Morrison, Law Department Management
John Brockman, Ed., This Will Make You Smarter (Harper Collins 2012) at 101, presents research that shows we can learn more effectively through situational change. Periodically, read something from a field that is new to you and, here’s the odd part, read it in a different place. So, find out about Renaissance tapestries at a table in the cafeteria; delve into the international notation for opera singers in a conference room; learn something about Mongolian yurts in the reception area. That is, to fertilize your mind and store creative building blocks, we should “invest a few hours a week in reading research that ostensibly has nothing to do with our day jobs, in a setting that has nothing in common with our regular workplace.” (read the post)
The Cost of Compliance
Corporate legal officers must now interpret a swarm of regulations and be prepared to spy on their bosses and tattle to the board of directors. George Melloan reviews “Indispensable Counsel.”
GEORGE MELLOAN, Wall Street Journal
Brought to my attention via right-tasking.com
With “Indispensable Counsel: The Chief Legal Officer in the New Reality,” E. Norman Veasey and Christine T. Di Guglielmo have written a field manual to aid CLOs with their new tasks. More important, the authors have illuminated how Congress, primarily through Sarbanes-Oxley, has inserted the long arm of federal law into executive suites and boardrooms to influence private-sector decision making, using the CLO as cat’s paw. (read the article)
Women GCs climbing the ladder
Leadership opportunities for women with legal backgrounds extend beyond general counsel
Julie Beck, InsideCounsel
Seeing women take up the mantle of general counsel is definitely a step in the right direction, but for several women, their career path doesn’t end there. Some women who have served as general counsel of Fortune 500 companies have gone on to become heads of major divisions, presidents or even CEOs. “Women can be great general counsel, and they can also be great business people,” said Lloyd Johnson, cofounder of The Project 5/165, which promotes awareness of women GCs. “They’re just great leaders and managers.” (read the article)
Jason Emanis
LDOBuzz.com has a new feature-tab, LDO Profiles. This will be the destination for our industry’s law department operations professional profiles. Our first up, Lisa Girmscheid, Rockwell Automation, Inc. (see her profile)
How about you? If you would like to add your professional profile to LDO Buzz.com, I’ll ask you to answer 10 easy questions, I’ll weave together a profile for your review, then, with your approval, I’ll post it with the others on LDO Profiles. Email Me with the subject line, “ldobuzz profile.”
LegalTech West Coast and Law Department Operations.
