Category: #Features
On #BakersDozen: Mark Yacano of MLA Global In Interview With High Performance Counsel
High Performance Counsel interviewed Mark Yacano for #BakersDozen. Mark is Global Practice Leader for Major, Lindsey & Africa’s Managed Legal Services Practice.
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On #BakersDozen: John Thacher of RICOH In Interview With High Performance Counsel
We spoke with John Thacher of RICOH for this #BakersDozen interview. With 18 years in the industry, we were struck by his sound perspective on the future. He is enthusiastic about some of the newer, exciting elements and changing market dynamics. He speaks clearly, from experience, to today’s drivers in the modern legal economy: “Low price and high quality are now fully expected. Client service is once again becoming paramount in the client experience and their decisions to buy from a vendor a second time.”
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On #BakersDozen: Tom Trujillo – EVP, Deputy GC & COO, Wells Fargo Law Department – In Interview with High Performance Counsel
Tom speaks with refreshing authenticity from a rich well of experience in the legal industry. His voice speaks clearly to both the challenges and opportunities ahead for lawyers and the industry we embrace. As we congratulate him on his new appointment as Deputy General Counsel & COO with Wells Fargo’s Law Department, we invite you to share in what he has to say about the road ahead.
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On #BakersDozen: Monica Zent, Founder & CEO of Foxwordy In Interview with High Performance Counsel
Monica Zent is one of the bright shining lights in modern law. With her upbeat, “can do” attitude she is one of the driving forces at the epicenter of legal industry change via innovation and smart enabling technology. A valued HPC Advisory Board member, and a force to be reckoned with, here she tackles the infamous #BakersDozen.
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On #BakersDozen: Brendan Burnett In Interview with High Performance Counsel
My first job was to lead recruiting for sales/trading and investment banking at one of the big banks. They had a trading business in London and wanted to replicate it in New York.
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On #BakersDozen: Roger O’Sullivan, General Counsel of Cogstate In Interview with High Performance Counsel
Mr. O’Sullivan has extensive experience as legal counsel for the healthcare and life sciences industries, bringing broad, frontline experience establishing strategic alliances and structuring and negotiating complex commercial/corporate transactions.
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Webinar Alert: Ethics and Social Media in Court – presented by LawPay and ACEDS
In this webinar, we’ll examine a variety of real-world cases demonstrating the many ways lawyers have intentionally or unintentionally breached the rules of ethics or trial procedure with the use of common social media platforms and messaging apps
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On #BakersDozen: Sonya Olds Som In Interview with High Performance Counsel
We interview Sonya Olds Som aka “The Connector” in our latest episode of #BakersDozen.
A consummate professional herself, Sonya is a source of advice, insight and inspiration to countless legal professionals in today’s legal industry.
We like what Sonya is about. We think you will also. This is a must-read.
GDPR Meets E-Discovery: Privacy Comes Out On Top
If you think the looming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is just a European anomaly that won’t have much impact ‘across the pond’, think again. Leading expert on #GDPR and Founder CEO of edt, Jo Sherman, opines.
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On #BakersDozen: Jared Coseglia, Founder & CEO of TRU Staffing In Interview with High Performance Counsel
Tell us a bit about yourself and how you came to be in (or a customer of) the legal business?...
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Sonya Olds Som, Partner at Major, Lindsey & Africa, Honored as Executive of the Year by the National Bar Association General Counsel Invitational
Sonya Olds Som, a partner with legal search firm Major, Lindsey & Africa (MLA), has been honored as “Executive of the Year” by the National Bar Association General Counsel Invitational (NBA GCI) at its third annual conference in New York City.
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Event Alert: Join HPC Partner ACEDS and the Masters Conference in Chicago – May 22, 2018
Whether you’re dealing with e-discovery in a new, socially networked world, find your company expanding globally and thus facing international discovery issues, or planning for the future of e-discovery in your firm or company…
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On #BakersDozen: Doug Ellenoff of Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP In Interview with High Performance Counsel
Doug Ellenoff is a partner in the NYC-based 80 lawyer firm of Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP (EGS), which recently celebrated its 25th anniversary. He is also Chairman of iDisclose, which is a legal technology company. On #BakersDozen, he speaks truth to the changing face of law, the opportunities and challenges that technology represents for modern practitoners and the possibilities for meaningful innovation.
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On #BakersDozen: Laura Maechtlen, Partner at Seyfarth Shaw LLP In Interview For The #BakersDozen
My first career was in music — violin performance. During my junior year of college, I began researching next steps in my educational journey and realized that auditions for a masters or PhD in music would be ridiculously competitive, and that my career path in music would remain that way.
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On #BakersDozen: Mary Mack of ACEDS In Interview with High Performance Counsel
On #BakersDozen: Mary Mack of ACEDS, the Association of Certified E-Discovery Specialists
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How Much Cash Ya Got?
Picture this: someone knocks on your door. When you answer, the first thing they ask is: “How much cash ya got?” Expert Contributor on Board Governance, Nancy May, shares a few thoughts on the challenges and opportunities presented for Board governance by activist investors.
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A Cybersecurity Action List for Law Firms
Expert Contributor on Cybersecurity, Chuck Brooks, addresses the risk to law firms. Here he provides a list of basic questions that can set the foundation of how firms can access vulnerabilities in data protection and take steps to protect themselves.
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ON #FEARLESSLAW: PEARSON GC & CHIEF LEGAL OFFICER BJARNE TELLMANN
Bjarne P. Tellmann is Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel of Pearson and a member of its Executive team. A FTSE 40 company with 36,000 employees in over 70 countries, Pearson provides a range of education products and services to institutions, governments and individual learners. Here he talks to High Performance Counsel as part of our exclusive #FearlessLaw series.
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On #BakersDozen: Rashda Rana SC (QC) – Leading Barrister, Mediator and International Arbitrator
On #BakersDozen: Rashda Rana SC (QC) – Leading Barrister, Mediator and International Arbitrator. A reluctant lawyer, Rashda has proven to be one of the very best – demonstrating professional excellence and a passion for advocacy on the critical issues of equality and unconscious bias. #BakersDozen is an exclusive series of interviews with top professionals in the legal, finance and consulting sectors – presented by High Performance Counsel.
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On #BakersDozen: Steph Corey, Co-Founder Of UpLevel Ops
For anyone following the growth of the Legal Operations (#LegalOps) discipline in modern law (and if not, why not) Steph Corey is one of its brightest shining lights. Fresh thinking, great energy – she speaks to where the industry is heading. Here, she takes on the infamous #BakersDozen.
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On #BakersDozen: Ken Grady In Interview with High Performance Counsel
Ken Grady is one of the finest minds in the modern legal industry and we love sharing his #BakersDozen interview.
We particularly enjoy the practicality of his perspective and his mindset: “acknowledge success, but focus on reality.” We find this to be acutely relevant and timely as the legal industry seeks to define its future self. Those in the sector – or contemplating it professionally – could do no better than to read what Ken has to say.
On #BakersDozen: Jennifer Silverman In Interview with High Performance Counsel
I head the Intellectual Property practice at Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP, a mid-sized general practice firm in NYC.
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ZorroSign Presents: Security of eSignature and Post-Execution Forgery Detection
Akbar Jaffer of ZorroSign: Historically, the legal industry has been very conservative when it comes to adopting new technology. That’s more true for electronic signature and digital transaction management (DTM) solutions, and for good reason. This is primarily so because of post-execution forgery detection, or lack thereof. Now there are ways to address this challenging issue.
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Faster Horses? Think Again.
Ford understood that of which he spoke. Clients may call for speed – and some solutions may seem easier than others in the short-term – but this legal innovation race will never be won by “training faster horses”. This is the time to dream – and stretch – much further.
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High Performance Counsel Unveils New #FoundersDozen Interview Series for Legal Industry Founders and Entrepreneurs
Following the success of its #BakersDozen and #Bakers18 formats, High Performance Counsel today unveiled the #FoundersDozen Interview Series for Legal Industry Founders, Entrepreneurs and High-Performing Individual Contributors. Read more.
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On #BakersDozen: Akbar Jaffer, CMO of Award-Winning ZorroSign – In Interview with High Performance Counsel
I am a marketer by passion, products guy by heart, and a technologist by profession. Currently I serve as a member of the Board and as the Chief Marketing Officer of ZorroSign.
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High Performance Counsel Presents Its Inaugural #Bakers18 In Association With ACEDS
2018 will be a landmark year in the legal industry so we assembled a crack team, the best of the best, the creme de la creme – the #Bakers18 – to share their thoughts on how this year plays out. It’s a bit like Ocean’s Eleven. Only much, much better. Happy new year from all of us at High Performance Counsel.
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- On #BakersDozen: Mark Yacano of MLA Global In Interview With High Performance Counsel
- From Strength To Strength: ContractPodAi Reports Another Big Enterprise Win, Rollout
- On #BakersDozen: John Thacher of RICOH In Interview With High Performance Counsel
- On #BakersDozen: Tom Trujillo – EVP, Deputy GC & COO, Wells Fargo Law Department – In Interview with High Performance Counsel
- On #BakersDozen: Monica Zent, Founder & CEO of Foxwordy In Interview with High Performance Counsel
- On #BakersDozen: Brendan Burnett In Interview with High Performance Counsel