How do new general counsels – and veteran ones, too – 'bend the legal curve' to deliver maximum business value? By taking these steps proven to transform law departments from cost centres to value contributors.
Law departments and law firms need to understand the trade-offs between managed solutions and interim legal talent as far as flexibility, cost, scalability, legal expertise, quality assurance, oversight, and risk management.
Two years on, the Elevate Women’s ERG is going strong. Its members continue providing each other connection, support, and inspiration through ‘Pressure to Do It All’ Roundtables, HerStory presentations, and monthly virtual coffee bars.
Disjointed approaches to a company's transactions create inefficiencies and unnecessary contracts-related risks. The solution? A new type of business department with a new type of leader.
In a
Law360 article, Elevate's General Counsel and COO Steve Harmon stresses the benefits of AI in the legal industry but underscores the importance of a strategic, balanced approach for successful implementation.
Of total data-incident response costs, 25% (averaging up to US $5.4 million for large companies) are for forensics to analyse breached data, determine impacted individuals, and conduct other work, according to the most recent report on cyber risk management and response from NetDiligence.
In the three months since the US Securities and Exchange Commission began requiring companies to disclose cybersecurity incidents, 17 companies have done so – an average of slightly more than one per week.
Elevate not only made
Newsweek's annual list of America’s 1,500 greatest workplaces for diversity but was one of just 30% of listed companies to earn a five-star rating for diversity.
