The General Counsel-Compliance Relationship
Tips for Hiring Outside Counsel You'll Want to Keep Working With
ABA Sound Advice: Conducting Civil Rights Audits: Benefits and Best Practices
The Role of Outside Counsel in Crisis Communications - Regulatory Oversight Podcast
The role of General Counsel in Times of Crisis with Maria Feeley, Chief Legal Officer of Washington and Lee University: On Record PR
CyberSide Chats: Yes, you needed a cyber attorney a long time ago (with Erik Weinick)
Sitting with the C-Suite: Integrating Outside Counsel with eDiscovery Partners
Sitting with the C-Suite: How In-House Counsel Can Merge eDiscovery Preferences
4 Key Takeaways | In-House Lawyers' Expectations of Outside Counsel
Key Performance Indicators for the Legal Department
The Importance of Knowing Your Industry and Business Leadership
Day 9 of One Month to Better Reporting and Investigations-The Investigation Team
Day 2 of One Month to Better Investigations and Reporting-Selection of Investigative Counsel
Preview: Silicon Valley In-House Counsel Panel - LMA Bay Area
Lessons Learned from the Parker Drilling DPA and Ralph Lauren NPA
“Insider threats” can come in various forms — fraud, embezzlement, theft of confidential information, failures to follow policy, and more. Employers regularly face threats to their businesses, but when the threat comes from...more
Outside counsel is an integral part of the legal industry. Sometimes companies hire law firms to handle the entirety of a legal issue or dispute, while other times they retain outside counsel only for specific questions or...more
Cybersecurity is a top concern for organizations of all shapes and sizes. Whether it be a global organization or a small business, each will inevitably collect and store consumer data that hackers could attempt to steal....more
Jerich Beason is joined by Erik Weinick. Erik's experience includes privacy, cybersecurity, bankruptcy, commercial torts, defamation/slander, regulatory to name a few. He is also the co-founder of Otterburg’s Privacy &...more
Whether you are a director, or a member of an in-house legal, human resources, or internal audit team, there are sensitive scenarios that occur daily in companies and charitable organizations across industries that trigger...more
The answer, maybe, but it depends on the facts in each case. Merely because a company has its outside legal counsel directly retain a third party service provider for an incident response, i.e., digital forensics, does not...more
The other thing more unexciting than a discovery dispute is reading about someone else’s discovery dispute. But Wednesday’s decision from the Washington federal court in Canyon Estates Condominium Association v. Atain...more
Understanding the boundaries of legal privilege in corporate internal investigations is critical. When counsel, either internal or external, misunderstands these boundaries, the result can be disastrous....more
Dealing with enforcement isn’t at the top of any operator’s favorite things list. It can be a stressful and concerning experience for even the most seasoned operations. Often companies decide to engage with legal counsel...more
A key component of this fair and objective evaluation is the WHO question; that is, who should supervise the investigation and who should handle the investigation? You should have independent counsel should handle any serious...more
Employers can take many steps to help maximize the likelihood that attorney-client privileged information and work product will be protected in the context of employment-related investigations. In the recent case of City...more
Employer Is Entitled To Recover $4 Million In Attorney's Fees From EEOC - CRST Van Expedited, Inc. v. EEOC, 578 U.S. ___, 136 S. Ct. 1642 (2016) - The EEOC filed suit against CRST (a trucking company) alleging...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: California Court of Appeal holds that (1) an outside attorney’s investigation can be privileged even though the attorney simply investigated facts, and (2) the employer does not waive the privilege simply...more
The importance of retaining outside counsel after a data breach was recently underscored in the Target data breach class-action litigation filed by the financial institutions. Plaintiffs filed a motion to compel Target to...more
On August 11, 2015, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued a writ of mandamus supporting the robust applicability of the attorney-client privilege and attorney work product doctrines in the context of False...more
It’s simple—the attorney-client privilege protects from discovery communications between a client and his or her lawyer. It’s challenging—the privilege applies to communications between (some) corporate representatives and...more
There is often a discussion about the retention of outside counsel to lead an investigation of alleged violations of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) so that the company may maintain the attorney-client privilege....more