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Your duty to preserve evidence starts before anyone files a complaint. It begins the moment litigation is reasonably anticipated, which can be the day a demand letter arrives, a regulator sends an inquiry, or a senior manager emails a colleague that a departing...

Most growing companies hire their first general counsel long after they needed one. By then the founder has signed a stack of vendor contracts nobody reviewed, the cap table has a few loose ends, and outside counsel invoices have quietly become one of the larger lines...

Most data processing agreements arrive as a vendor's standard addendum, and many get signed without a single redline. That works until the vendor suffers a breach, adds a subprocessor in a country you never approved, or starts using your customers' data to improve its...

Outside counsel guidelines only control spend if your law firms can follow them and your team actually enforces them. A 40-page document that partners skim once at engagement and invoice reviewers never check changes very little about what lands on your desk at month...

A legal secondment puts an outside lawyer inside your legal team for a defined period, working on your matters, under your direction, as if they were a member of staff. When the period ends, they leave, and you have not added permanent headcount. For a general counsel...

Legal departments are being asked to do more, often without the luxury of adding permanent headcount. A new regulatory requirement can appear overnight. A transaction can suddenly accelerate. Contract volumes can increase. An international expansion may introduce...

A contract attorney's hourly rate can run anywhere from $75 to $750, and the number alone tells you almost nothing about whether you're getting a good deal. The gap comes down to three things: experience level, specialization, and how you're sourcing the attorney in...

Six minutes doesn't sound like much, until you multiply a rounding habit across every timekeeper on a legal team for a full year. A firm that consistently rounds up by even one increment per entry can add thousands of dollars in disputed fees, and a firm that rounds...

Most law firm CRM rollouts fail for a reason that has nothing to do with the software. The tool gets selected, purchased, and half-configured, and then nobody owns the ongoing work of keeping intake data clean and workflows current. A legal CRM tracks leads,...