“The former volunteer city real estate adviser who received $9.4 million in payments for two city lease deals also had two previously undisclosed contracts with the city’s landlord, including separate non-disclosure and fee agreements signed before the City Council voted to approve the first lease,” reports Lisa Halverstadt in Voice Of San Diego.

“Those agreements came after then-Mayor Bob Filner, in 2013, appointed real estate broker Jason Hughes as his special assistant on downtown real estate issues and commended him for agreeing to work “without compensation from any party. Less than two years later, as an adviser to then Mayor Kevin Faulconer, Hughes signed.”

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“Which Biglaw firms are most beloved by general counsel for their superior client service? If that seems like it was a steep hill to climb during the pandemic, that’s because it was. The BTI Consulting Group set to find out which firms handled the task with ease with its latest ranking, the Client Service,” reports Staci Zaretsky in Above The Law.

“In case you’re unfamiliar with this ranking, it measures the top 30 law firms corporate counsel identify as delivering the very best in terms of client service. To compile the ranking, BTI Consulting spoke with almost 250 legal decision-makers who were asked to name firms that excelled in 17 different client-service-related activities, seven.”

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“With an impressive 20 Emmy nominations, Ted Lasso was a definitive hit for the streaming service going into the currently airing Season 2. The immense hype surrounding what’s been called one of TV’s most positive shows made it easy for the studio to greenlight a third season in October before Season,” reports Tyler McCarthy in Fox Business.

“Now, according to The Hollywood Reporter, the writers and cast underwent a round of contract negotiations, this time with the leverage of multiple Emmy nominations a Peabody Award and incredibly positive word of mouth. Brendan Hunt and Brett Goldstein made out particularly well in the renegotiations given that they both write.”

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“Mark Robinson assumed the role in June following the departure of Dan Reed II, according to a report from Bloomberg Law this week.A Robinson has reflected the new position in his LinkedIn profile. He has been at GameStop for six years, hired as a senior counsel in August 2015,” reports Aaron Nicodemus in Compliance Week.

“Robinson’s responsibilities as assistant general counsel included his holding the CECO title. He also served as secretary of the company’s audit committee. Reed’s departure as general counsel followed a June 9 management shakeup at GameStop, in which Matt Furlong was named chief executive officer and Mike Recupero chief financial.”

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“Steinhoff has applied to the Western Cape High Court an urgent basis to approve its multibillion-rand settlement proposal, saying doing so will put an end to the “interminable” legal challenges it has been facing. It is time for this saga to be brought to an end,” the retailer’s CEO Louis du Preez said in an,” reports Jan Cronje in their Fin 24.

“It is time for this saga to be brought to an end, the retailer’s CEO Louis du Preez said in an affidavit. The alternative is years of litigation at massive cost and prevailing uncertainty. The sanctioning of the proposal will go some way to restoring the tarnished reputation of SA Inc, he added, saying it would also help secure the jobs of more than.”

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“Court filings show that Canada-headquartered Bausch Health TSX. BHC has agreed to pay $300 million to settle an antitrust suit related to diabetes med Glumetza. The class action suit accused the firm of keeping a monopoly on the therapy by paying off competitors, thereby enabling an eight fold price,” reports The Pharma Letter in their blog.

“First sold by Assertio Therapeutics Nasdaq. ASRT, Glumetza is an extended-release formulation of the common diabetes therapy. Bausch, which was formerly known as Valeant Pharmaceuticals, picked up the treatment subsequently. The antitrust case was initiated in 2019. The legal arguments center around the role.”

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“It’s now mid-September, and some first are just getting around to raising associate salaries. Sure, this trend started back in June, but when it comes to compensation increases for attorneys, the general mood is that it’s better late than never,” reports Staci Zaretsky in Above The Law.

“The latest firm to increase associate salaries is Robins Kaplan, a national trial firm that brought in $191,065,000 gross revenue in 2020, placing it at No. 158 in the most recent Am Law 200 ranking. The Minnesota-based firm was also recently named by Vault as one of the top firms in the Midwest (#25) and as one of the best firms for formal training overall (#21).”

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“Hour by hour, as billable time ticks away, Biglaw leaders have an important decision to make. Will they further postpone their planned office reopenings due to the hyper-contagious Delta variant of COVID-19? By all accounts, it’s looking more and more like the answer is a resounding yes But just,” reports Staci Zaretsky in Above The Law.

“Perkins Coie, for example, has its sights set on a January 2022 reopening. Attorneys and staff were originally supposed to return to the office on October 4. Instead, the top 50 Am Law firm will join the small handful of other firms that will forgo office life for all of 2021. These firms include Cahill, Cooley, Sanford Heisler, and Willkie.”

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“T-Mobile US, Inc. (NASDAQ: TMUS) announced today that Mark W. Nelson will join the company as executive vice president and general counsel in October. Nelson was named to the position as current General Counsel Dave Miller announced his retirement after 26 years with T-Mobile. Miller will be retiring,” reports Business Wire in their blog.

“With deep expertise in regulatory and global antitrust matters as well as in U.S. civil litigation, Nelson is one of the most highly regarded lawyers in Washington, D.C. He will report directly to Chief Executive Officer Mike Sievert and have offices in Bellevue, Wash, and Washington, D.C. The company also shared that its Board of Directors.”

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“Glaukos NYSE, GKOS announced today that it entered into a settlement with Ivantis to terminate a three-year-old patent infringement lawsuit. San Clemente, California-based Glaukos’ patent infringement lawsuit, initiated on April 14, 2018, in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California,” reports Sean Whooley in Drug Delivery.

“Under the settlement agreement, Ivantis will pay Glaukos $60 million, with $30 million to be paid by Dec. 31, 2021. The remainder must be paid by Dec. 31, 2022, with Ivantis also to pay Glaukos a 10% ongoing royalty through April 26, 2025, based on the Hydrus Microstent’s U.S. sales and any international sales supplied outside of the U.S.”

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“Ohio on Thursday finalized an $808 million accord with the three largest U.S. drug distributors resolving claims they fueled the opioid epidemic, guaranteeing the state would be paid regardless of the fate of the proposed $26 billion national settlement. Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost cited the leverage,” reports Nate Raymond in Reuters.

“An upcoming trial in a case the state filed against the companies to explain why the state could cut a better deal with McKesson Corp, AmerisourceBergen Corp and Cardinal Health Inc than what it could get in the national settlement. That deal calls for the distributors to pay up to $21 billion over 18 years to resolve claims by thousands.”

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Houston – Sidley Austin LLP is pleased to announce that Trent Bridges has joined the firm as a partner in the Energy and Infrastructure Global Practice Group in Houston. He previously served as Vice President and Assistant General Counsel at Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P., an NYSE-listed company headquartered in Tulsa, OK that primarily transports, stores, and distributes liquid petroleum products.
Mr. Bridges has extensive first-hand knowledge of the midstream industry from his near decade of experience at Magellan. He served as the lead lawyer for Magellan on numerous significant M&A transactions and commercial matters, including negotiating and drafting purchase and sale agreements, joint venture arrangements, terminalling and offtake contracts, and pipeline throughput commitments and related tariffs for the development, construction, ownership, and operation of new and expanded pipeline systems, inland storage and marine export terminals, condensate splitter facilities, and other midstream assets.
Prior to his role at Magellan, Mr. Bridges practiced law at the Oklahoma-based law firm of McAfee & Taft representing NYSE and NASDAQ-listed companies in capital markets transactions and Securities Exchange Act of 1934 matters. He also represented public and private companies in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and financing transactions.
“We have known Trent for many years as both a client and across the table and know the quality of his work, his negotiating skills, and his entrepreneurial drive,” said Cliff Vrielink, global leader of the Energy and Infrastructure practice and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. “His experience as an executive at a preeminent energy infrastructure company will help bolster and expand our work for strategic clients and private equity and infrastructure funds as well as grow our midstream transactional and regulatory practices.”

Lawyers and professionals from RumbergerKirk will host a series of virtual professional development workshops for Florida A&M University (FAMU) College of Law students during the 2021-2022 academic year. This is the third consecutive year the law firm has presented the RumbergerKirk Professional Development Series to help prepare future lawyers for real-world experiences.

The series kicks off Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021 at 5 p.m. via Zoom with RumbergerKirk lawyers sharing their experience on the topic, “Transitioning from Government Practice to Private Practice.” Three of the firm’s associates, Latravious Johnson (Miami), Stephanie Calcote (Orlando) and Kathleen Shea (Orlando), will educate law students on the various ways they can successfully shift from a career in government to a career in a private law firm.

RumbergerKirk has assembled a group of presenters including partners, associates and professionals from the firm as well as local judges. This year also includes a presentation by in-house counsel from Harley-Davidson who will talk with students about the in-house career path as well as what clients expect from their outside counsel. Several of the workshops will feature breakout sessions and polling questions to ensure a more interactive and engaging experience for the law students.

Additional presentations in the series include:
 Oct. 21, 2021: In-house Counsel Career Path and What Clients Expect from Outside Counsel, presented by Harley-Davidson
 Nov. 4, 2021: Interviewing Skills Workshop
 Jan. 20, 2022: Judges Panel on Professionalism, Courtroom Etiquette and the Importance of Good Writing
 Feb. 17, 2022: Associate Life: What to Expect Your First Three Years and Securing Clerkships
 March 10, 2022: Path to Partnership: What Does it Take?

Eversheds Sutherland is pleased to announce that Alex A. Goldberg has joined the firm’s Energy Practice Group as senior counsel. With more than 30 years of experience in the energy industry, most recently as general counsel of Continuum Energy, LLC, previously known as Seminole Energy Services, LLC, Mr. Goldberg will advise clients in all matters of energy and energy regulation on the federal and state level.

“Alex brings the kind of deep energy industry experience to the table that perfectly complements our existing practice in this fast-moving regulatory landscape,” said Lino Mendiola, Co-Head of Global Energy at Eversheds Sutherland. “With so many changes on the horizon for the industry, his extensive knowledge and experience are an excellent fit for our practice.”

Mr. Goldberg counsels clients in all matters of energy and energy regulation as they relate to administrative and civil litigation management, federal and state regulatory issues related to rates, tariffs and certificate application, compliance, day-to-day and strategic transactions, company governance, investor and financial community communications, and strategy formulation.

Throughout his career, Mr. Goldberg has provided counsel on matters of energy regulation, including regulatory enforcement and compliance matters before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), state regulatory commissions, and federal and state courts, including significant administrative trial experience and appeals. He has extensive experience advising companies in the power marketing and transmission business and in the natural gas business from the wellhead to the burner tip. Mr. Goldberg has served as lead counsel in significant matters at FERC including interstate natural gas pipeline rate cases, and defending enforcement actions in both the power business and the natural gas business. He has also provided regulatory and general legal services related to crude oil and products pipelines and logistics businesses.

He advises his clients in these processes on a stand-alone basis and as they relate to crisis and litigation management, M&A, asset dispositions, commercial contracts, debt and equity financing, and joint venture formation, transactions, and operations.

Prior to joining Eversheds Sutherland, Mr. Goldberg was general counsel at a large privately held energy company and, prior to this, assistant general counsel at one of the nations’ largest publically held integrated energy companies where he led all legal activities associated with its energy marketing and trading subsidiary and corporate regulatory and litigation management. Prior to his in-house positions, Alex worked as an associate in a mid-sized DC law firm focused on the energy industry.

Mr. Goldberg is also the senior notes editor of the Energy Law Journal where he has been on the editorial board for many years.

About Eversheds Sutherland
As a global top 10 law practice, Eversheds Sutherland provides legal services to a global client base ranging from small and mid-sized businesses to the largest multinationals, acting for 70 of the Fortune 100, 61 of the FTSE 100 and 128 of the Fortune 200.

With more than 3,000 lawyers, Eversheds Sutherland operates in 74 offices in 35 jurisdictions across Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the United States. In addition, a network of more than 200 related law firms, including formalized alliances in Latin America, Asia Pacific and Africa, provide support around the globe.

Eversheds Sutherland provides the full range of legal services, including corporate and M&A; dispute resolution and litigation; energy and infrastructure; finance; human capital and labor law; intellectual property; real estate and construction; and tax.

Eversheds Sutherland is a global legal practice and comprises two separate legal entities: Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP (headquartered in the UK) and Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP (headquartered in the US), and their respective controlled, managed, affiliated and member firms. The use of the name Eversheds Sutherland is for description purposes only and does not imply that the member firms or their controlled, managed or affiliated entities are in a partnership or are part of a global LLP. For more information, visit eversheds-sutherland.com.

Sidley Austin LLP is pleased to announce that Trent Bridges has joined the firm as a partner in the Energy and Infrastructure Global Practice Group in Houston. He previously served as Vice President and Assistant General Counsel at Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P., an NYSE-listed company headquartered in Tulsa, OK that primarily transports, stores, and distributes liquid petroleum products.

Mr. Bridges has extensive first-hand knowledge of the midstream industry from his near decade of experience at Magellan. He served as the lead lawyer for Magellan on numerous significant M&A transactions and commercial matters, including negotiating and drafting purchase and sale agreements, joint venture arrangements, terminalling and offtake contracts, and pipeline throughput commitments and related tariffs for the development, construction, ownership, and operation of new and expanded pipeline systems, inland storage and marine export terminals, condensate splitter facilities, and other midstream assets.

Prior to his role at Magellan, Mr. Bridges practiced law at the Oklahoma-based law firm of McAfee & Taft representing NYSE and NASDAQ-listed companies in capital markets transactions and Securities Exchange Act of 1934 matters. He also represented public and private companies in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and financing transactions.

“We have known Trent for many years as both a client and across the table and know the quality of his work, his negotiating skills, and his entrepreneurial drive,” said Cliff Vrielink, global leader of the Energy and Infrastructure practice and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. “His experience as an executive at a preeminent energy infrastructure company will help bolster and expand our work for strategic clients and private equity and infrastructure funds as well as grow our midstream transactional and regulatory practices.”

With 2,000 lawyers in 20 offices around the globe, Sidley is a premier legal adviser for clients across the spectrum of industries. Follow Sidley on Twitter @SidleyLaw.

ROANOKE, Va. (September 14, 2021) – The Virginia law firm Gentry Locke is pleased to announce that Roanoke partner Todd A. Leeson was named to Virginia Lawyers Weekly’s 2021 class of “Leaders in the Law” and Richmond associate D. Scott Foster Jr. was named to the publication’s 2021 class of “Up & Coming Lawyers.” All recipients will be honored during an awards ceremony on October 19 and will be profiled in the publication.

Now in its 16th year, the Virginia Lawyers Weekly Leaders in the Law awards recognize lawyers across the commonwealth who are setting the standard for other Virginia lawyers. “Leaders” are changing the law, serving the community, changing practices, or improving Virginia’s justice system, among other accomplishments. The Up & Coming Lawyer program, now in its sixth year, recognizes lawyers across the commonwealth who are making their mark within their first 10 years of practice.

Leeson is a member of the firm’s Employment and Labor practice and advises Virginia employers in employment and labor law matters and litigation. He regularly defends clients in Virginia courts and before government agencies including the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), Department of Labor (DOL), Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and the Virginia Division of Human Rights (DHR). Leeson regularly drafts, enforces, and/or litigates non-compete agreements and executive employment contracts. In addition, Leeson has experience representing management in labor union matters including union avoidance campaigns, unfair labor practice charges and labor arbitrations. He also represents Virginia colleges in various student conduct matters including Title IX and sexual misconduct complaints.

Foster assists businesses with their land use, real estate and corporate law needs. He is a member of the firm’s Legislative Affairs and Solar and Renewable Energy teams and handles solar and energy storage land use matters across the Commonwealth. In 2010, Foster became the first college student to be elected to the Williamsburg City Council, where he served as Vice-Mayor from 2016-2018. He was instrumental in the adoption of the 2013 City of Williamsburg Comprehensive Plan, advocating for additional residential density in Williamsburg’s downtown, which led to major reinvestment and development of that area. He currently serves on the William and Mary Real Estate Foundation Board of Directors.

DALLAS – For the second consecutive year, readers of Texas Lawyer magazine have selected the trial firm of Lyons & Simmons, LLP, among the top Dallas-based personal injury law firms.

Fighting for the rights of their clients is the hallmark of Lyons & Simmons. With a focus on large, complex personal injury, wrongful death, and high-exposure business dispute cases, the trial firm’s founders, Michael Lyons and Christopher Simmons, are devoted to representing those whose lives have been torn apart by the actions of others.

“Without a doubt, I take on my clients’ problems as if they are my own. I have a hard time not thinking about their situation and how it has impacted them. It’s what drives me every day,” said Lyons. “I am consumed not only with what needs to be done to help them move on with their lives but also how to prevent it from ever happening to someone else.”

Each year since 2013, the editors of Texas Lawyer have surveyed members of the legal community to identify the top industry support companies in Dallas, Houston, and Austin. The firm’s focus on results led to Lyons & Simmons’ selection when personal injury firms were added to the survey in 2020.

Most recently, Lyons and Simmons secured the largest-ever verdict in Midland County, Texas, for a personal injury case, representing a woman whose three children died in a highway collision caused by a worker speeding to a jobsite in inclement weather. The firm also successfully represented the family of one of five victims of the worst oilfield accident in Oklahoma history and the deadliest in the U.S. since the 2010 Macondo Deepwater Horizon blowout.

Earlier this year, the firm was honored among the 2021 National Law Journal Elite Trial Lawyers finalists. Lyons and Simmons also have earned multiple individual honors from Texas Super Lawyers, Lawdragon 500, and D Magazine.

Results of the “Best of 2021” survey are published in the September/October issue of Texas Lawyer and can be found online at www.texaslawyer.com.

About Lyons & Simmons LLP
Dallas-based Lyons & Simmons, LLP is a trial boutique representing clients in wrongful death, personal injury, products liability, and complex “bet-the-company” business litigation matters across the country. To learn more, visit http://www.Lyons-Simmons.com.

Eversheds Sutherland is pleased to announce that Alex A. Goldberg has joined the firm’s Energy Practice Group as senior counsel. With more than 30 years of experience in the energy industry, most recently as general counsel of Continuum Energy, LLC, previously known as Seminole Energy Services, LLC, Mr. Goldberg will advise clients in all matters of energy and energy regulation on the federal and state level.

“Alex brings the kind of deep energy industry experience to the table that perfectly complements our existing practice in this fast-moving regulatory landscape,” said Lino Mendiola, Co-Head of Global Energy at Eversheds Sutherland. “With so many changes on the horizon for the industry, his extensive knowledge and experience are an excellent fit for our practice.”

Mr. Goldberg counsels clients in all matters of energy and energy regulation as they relate to administrative and civil litigation management, federal and state regulatory issues related to rates, tariffs and certificate application, compliance, day-to-day and strategic transactions, company governance, investor and financial community communications, and strategy formulation.

Throughout his career, Mr. Goldberg has provided counsel on matters of energy regulation, including regulatory enforcement and compliance matters before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), state regulatory commissions, and federal and state courts, including significant administrative trial experience and appeals. He has extensive experience advising companies in the power marketing and transmission business and in the natural gas business from the wellhead to the burner tip. Mr. Goldberg has served as lead counsel in significant matters at FERC including interstate natural gas pipeline rate cases, and defending enforcement actions in both the power business and the natural gas business. He has also provided regulatory and general legal services related to crude oil and products pipelines and logistics businesses.

He advises his clients in these processes on a stand-alone basis and as they relate to crisis and litigation management, M&A, asset dispositions, commercial contracts, debt and equity financing, and joint venture formation, transactions, and operations.

Prior to joining Eversheds Sutherland, Mr. Goldberg was general counsel at a large privately held energy company and, prior to this, assistant general counsel at one of the nations’ largest publically held integrated energy companies where he led all legal activities associated with its energy marketing and trading subsidiary and corporate regulatory and litigation management. Prior to his in-house positions, Alex worked as an associate in a mid-sized DC law firm focused on the energy industry.

Mr. Goldberg is also the senior notes editor of the Energy Law Journal where he has been on the editorial board for many years.

About Eversheds Sutherland
As a global top 10 law practice, Eversheds Sutherland provides legal services to a global client base ranging from small and mid-sized businesses to the largest multinationals, acting for 70 of the Fortune 100, 61 of the FTSE 100 and 128 of the Fortune 200.

With more than 3,000 lawyers, Eversheds Sutherland operates in 74 offices in 35 jurisdictions across Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the United States. In addition, a network of more than 200 related law firms, including formalized alliances in Latin America, Asia Pacific and Africa, provide support around the globe.

Eversheds Sutherland provides the full range of legal services, including corporate and M&A; dispute resolution and litigation; energy and infrastructure; finance; human capital and labor law; intellectual property; real estate and construction; and tax.

Eversheds Sutherland is a global legal practice and comprises two separate legal entities: Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP (headquartered in the UK) and Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP (headquartered in the US), and their respective controlled, managed, affiliated and member firms. The use of the name Eversheds Sutherland is for description purposes only and does not imply that the member firms or their controlled, managed or affiliated entities are in a partnership or are part of a global LLP. For more information, visit eversheds-sutherland.com.

The Centre for Information Policy Leadership, a global privacy and security think tank founded in 2001 by leading companies and Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP, is celebrating 20 years of working with industry leaders, regulatory authorities and policy makers to develop global solutions and best practices for privacy and responsible data use.

To mark this occasion, CIPL will publish a volume of short “thought pieces” later this year under the general title of Perspectives on Privacy and Effective Data Use in the Global Digital Economy and Society. This compilation will feature contributions from academics, technologists, former regulators and other thought leaders in privacy. Prior to the release of the full compendium, CIPL will release the contributions individually on a weekly basis on CIPL’s blog, “A Very CIPL Solution.”

During the past two decades, CIPL has evolved into a global organization at the forefront of cutting-edge policy issues. Perhaps most notably, CIPL is known for its extensive work on privacy accountability and its advocacy for the implementation of accountability frameworks and measures by organizations around the world.

Building on this prior work, CIPL has most recently been working with experts in the EU and multinational companies who are leaders in AI, to collect best practices and emerging trends in AI accountability. CIPL’s objective in this work is to inform the current EU discussions on the development of rules to regulate AI.

“Our guiding mission has always been to create and implement information best practices for our members that increase accountability, safeguard individuals and establish meaningful benchmarks to map the future of data privacy and legislation,” said CIPL president, Bojana Bellamy.

About CIPL
The Centre for Information Policy Leadership is a global think tank which encourages responsible information governance. Through collaboration with industry leaders, civil society, consumer organizations and government representatives, it explores innovative and pragmatic approaches to global policy issues, seeking to build privacy and data protection in practice while balancing economic and societal needs and interests. More details about the Centre can be found at www.informationpolicycentre.com.

About Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
With over 900 lawyers in the United States, Asia, Europe and the Middle East, Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP serves clients across a broad range of complex transactional, litigation and regulatory matters. We are known for our strength in the energy, financial services, real estate, and retail and consumer products industries, as well as our considerable experience in more than 100 distinct areas of practice, including privacy and cybersecurity, intellectual property, environmental, and mergers and acquisitions. Our full-service litigation practice is one of the largest in the country, with particular depth in key litigation markets such as Texas, California, Florida and the Mid-Atlantic.

Ironclad Announces Clickwrap, Brings Click-to-Accept to CLM
The Digital Contracting company unveils industry-first product developments fueled by recent acquisition at keynote event

SAN FRANCISCO (September 9, 2021) — At today’s State of Digital Contracting event, Ironclad unveiled Clickwrap, a new product for managing online agreements, and a never-before-seen set of features for Ironclad’s contract lifecycle management (CLM) product.

Clickwrap contracts (also known as clickthrough, click-to-accept contracts) are digitally native, legally binding online agreements that don’t require a signature. They are executed when the user clicks on a button that displays acceptance language or checks a box next to acceptance language. The use of clickwrap contracts has continued to rise with billions of agreements processed each year.

Ironclad Clickwrap (formerly Pactsafe, which Ironclad acquired earlier this year) helps companies manage the agreements embedded in apps, websites, and other digital experiences. The product handles millions of agreements per month for brands like Doordash and Wayfair, while capturing evidence to ensure the contracts are legally enforceable. Today, Ironclad announced that Clickwrap will now be available alongside CLM on Ironclad’s digital contracting platform.
Bringing click-to-accept to CLM
As ubiquitous as clickwrap contracts have become in consumer experiences, they are rare in B2B agreements, where eSignature is the common standard. At today’s event, Ironclad asserted that in the future, businesses will strategically choose the best mode of acceptance to optimize for contract speed and counterparty experience.

“Clickwrap will have a profound impact on how businesses handle all types of contracts — not just terms of service,” said Brian Powers, GM of Clickwrap at Ironclad. “By combining these proven technologies with Ironclad CLM, our customers will unlock consumer-type contracting speeds for contracts in sales, procurement, and legal.”

Ironclad announced a new set of features for CLM that allows for clickwrap and eSignature to be used interchangeably across all types of B2B agreements — a first among CLM providers. Additionally, new Public Workflow features provide public-facing links and dynamic launch forms, enabling completely self-service workflow for B2B counterparties.

“As a legal operations professional, I’m always looking for ways to improve our processes. So when our legal engineer approached me with the idea to try clickwrap, I was excited to test it out. We decided to start with our creative service agreements, which are high volume, transactional agreements that had been experiencing some friction,” said Sheena Loren Ferrari, Head of Global Legal Operations at Snap. “Since converting these to clickwrap, our time to acceptance is down, our sales reps are happier and our legal team has saved dozens of hours each month.”

The new product and features were shared at Ironclad’s latest State of Digital Contracting event in which attendees learned about the strengths, limitations and enforceability of self-service online agreements at scale. Attendees also saw how Ironclad customers, such as DoorDash and Snap, solve transactional agreements at scale without slowing down the business.

To learn more about Ironclad Clickwrap or the State of Digital Contracting summit, visit ironcladapp.com.

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About Ironclad
Ironclad is the leading digital contracting platform. L’Oréal, Staples, Mastercard, and other leading innovators use Ironclad to collaborate and negotiate on contracts, accelerate contracting while maintaining compliance, and turn contracts into critical carriers of operational business intelligence. It’s the only platform flexible enough to handle every type of contract workflow, whether a sales agreement, an HR agreement or a complex NDA. The company was named one of the 20 Rising Stars on the Forbes Cloud 100 list, and is backed by leading investors like Accel, Y Combinator, Sequoia, and BOND.

To learn more, visit www.ironcladapp.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

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