Category: Disruptive Forces
Litigation Funding Founder & CEO Susan Dunn Interviewed For #BakersDozen
In 2007 Susan Dunn co-founded Harbour. Subsequently, Susan has been instrumental in raising two further funds meaning that Harbour now advises on over £400 million of assets under management.
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TOP HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY CEO RUSS RUDISH TALKS LEADERSHIP – AND WHAT IT TAKES TO SUCCEED
To speak with Russ Rudish is to tap into one of the richest and most experienced sources of knowledge, intellect and experience in the modern healthcare industry – and to engage one of its sharpest business minds. And to observe the level of technical and digital growth in healthcare, we can’t help wonder if law is any different in its potential for vast change. We managed to get some time with Russ to share his views on leadership – and what it takes to succeed in a highly-competitive industry – here.
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On #LegalMosaic: Mark Cohen Discusses “The Future Lawyer”
HPC Contributor and Advisory Board Member Mark Cohen opines on the future role of lawyers and the special role they still have to play in society. As the lawyers of the future recreate the legal marketplace, they must zealously defend the rule of law. Its defense will be their most important matter, a constant reminder of what it means to be a lawyer and why the profession is so important to preserving the freedoms so many take for granted.
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DAVID E. WHEELER, ASSISTANT GENERAL COUNSEL, VERIZON – ON THE #BAKERSDOZEN
David is enjoying a wonderful career and has been blessed with opportunities for which some wait their entire careers. He’s marshaled several multibillion dollar deals through the regulatory processes.
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Legal Delivery Is Becoming Digitized. What Does That Mean?
The features of digitized legal providers are becoming well-defined– they are customer centric, tech and process enabled, agile, diverse, accessible to clients in real-time, intelligent, globally branded, scalable, multi-disciplinary, and enterprise focused. Few—if any—law firms fit this description. The Big Four accounting firms, Accenture, IBM, and others certainly do. Consider that General Electric recently moved its global in-house tax department to PriceWaterhouse Coopers. Law firms should take notice. This is the next phase of legal digitization: managed legal services.
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On #FearlessLaw: BDO’s Karen Schuler Speaks With High Performance Counsel
My name is Karen Schuler, and I lead BDO’s Data & Information Governance practice, which focuses on helping our clients to identify, manage, protect, and remediate sensitive data sources.
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On #BakersDozen: Startup Lawyer Olga Mack Speaks With High Performance Counsel
Usually what we think of as “impossible” is merely “improbable,” and achieving it is just a question of strategy.
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On #BakersDozen: Alan Bryan of Wal-Mart Talks To High Performance Counsel
Alan is Sr. Associate General Counsel for Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. where his responsibilities include leading the Office of Outside Counsel Management and Legal Operations.
Read More#LegalMosaic: How to Become an Innovative Lawyer
Mark Cohen: Legal Insights and Industry Commentary Our #LegalMosaic Series collects insights from the brilliant mind of Mark Cohen. These pieces may also be found at legalmosaic.com. There is no single path to becoming an...
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#BakersDozen: Author and Counsel, Sterling Miller
I have been a lawyer for almost 30 years. Sounds very weird to me when I say that.
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#FearlessLaw: LegalMosaic’s Mark A. Cohen
Cybersecurity certainly poses a challenge to legal consumers and providers, just as it does to everyone in the digital age. Law firms and in-house departments—especially those in companies that have lots of IP or do large M & A or Government work
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#FearlessLaw: Envoy’s Ralph Schonenbach
Ralph Schonenbach has held senior positions with the firms Andersen and Ernst & Young. Afterwards, he co-founded Trestle Group and Trestle Group Foundation.
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#BakersDozen: Traklight CEO & Founder Mary Juetten
I worked in one of Canada’s largest law firms as a Director of Finance in mid 200s and went back to law school as a second career in 2008. I never wrote the bar and decided instead to start…
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#BakersDozen: Rebecca Tweneboah
Rebecca Yaa Serwah Tweneboah is owner and creative designer of Moi by Yaa, an African-inspired clothing company, and an attorney for New York City
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#LondonCalling: It’s Elementary, My Dear Watson
A fascinating piece of research was published recently. IBM’s AI machine, Watson, was trained by researchers at UCL, the University of Sheffield and the University of Pennsylvania to analyse textual evidence extracted from cases before the European Court of Human Rights…
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#BakersDozen: Jason Moyse
I started as a commercial litigator with a high volume practice focussed on debtor/creditor law, loan and asset recovery and mortgage enforcement. I spent my first six years in private practice and the next six as in-house counsel…
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#BakersDozen: Steven Weisbrot
Steven Weisbrot is a nationally-recognized class action notice expert and one of the premier thought leaders in the class action administration industry.
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#LondonCalling: The Civil Justice System of the Future?
The future is coming to the civil courts in England and Wales. Actually, it’s been coming for a long time. It’s 16 years since I was involved in developing the e-business strategy for the courts here.
Read More#BakersDozen: David Holme
I am a Chartered Accountant by background. I trained at KPMG London and moved into corporate finance and due diligence work early on (auditing really wasn’t for me). I then moved on to Bridgepoint, a large private equity fund.
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