The Art of Negotiating a Software Audit
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You have more room to negotiate an audit than you likely realize. Here are some questions to keep in mind when you negotiate with software publishers demanding audits across your enterprise IT infrastructure.
Dykema Adds Government Contracts Attorneys in San Antonio
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Dykema has added government contracts attorneys John C. Dulske and Bryan Kost to its Government Policy & Practice Group in the firm’s San Antonio office. Prior to joining Dykema, both practiced at Dulske & Gluys in San Antonio, which Dulske formed in 2002.
Quarles & Brady Names New Office Managing Partners in Indianapolis, Tampa
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Quarles & Brady LLP announced that partners Lucy R. Dollens and Kelli A. Edson have been selected as new office managing partners inn the firm’s Indianapolis and Tampa offices, respectively.
Andrew Hartnett Joins Greensfelder Securities & Financial Services Industry Group
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Andrew M. Hartnett, who most recently served as Commissioner of Securities for former Missouri Secretary of State Jason Kander, joins Greensfelder as an officer. He also has served in a leadership role with the North American Securities Administrators Association.
Invitation: General Counsel to Discuss Cost Control
Event, Feb. 23, 3 p.m. CST
Bloomberg Big Law Business, in partnership with Catalyst, will convene corporate counsel to discuss the need to control rising legal costs particularly related to litigation at the complimentary event, Controlling Litigation Costs – Managing Your Legal Department for Success.
2017 Corporate E-Discovery Hero Award Winners Honored
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The Corporate E-Discovery Hero Awards, presented by Zapproved, honors e-discovery experts and corporate legal professionals who demonstrate excellence in e-discovery strategy, technology, process, teamwork and overall influence and achievement.
Management Needs to Own Core Programs
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Management ownership of core programs is critical not just for maintaining effective governance practices but also in ensuring company business objectives and strategies are met.
USSC Nominee Gorsuch and Free Speech Issues
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Dallas media lawyer Shannon Teicher of Jackson Walker LLP suggests that Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch’s record on the First Amendment is vitally important given the new administration’s already strained relationship with the press.
Charles ‘Skip’ Watson Joins Texas Oil-and-Gas Law Boutique
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Midland, Texas-based energy law boutique Davis, Gerald & Cremer has added Texas appellate specialist Charles “Skip” Watson to its Austin office.
NACD Webinar: How Progressive GC Use Board Evaluation
Event, March 23, 2 p.m. EST
The National Association of Corporate Directors will present a complimentary webinar discussing how progressive general counsel use the board evaluation process as a tool to effect positive change in the boardroom.
Former Legaltech News Editor Erin Harrison Joins Baretz+Brunelle
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Erin Harrison, former editor-in-chief of ALM’s Legaltech News and InsideCounsel, has joinedBaretz+Brunelle as a managing director.
Hogan Lovells Expands Global International Trade and Investment Practice
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Hogan Lovells adds Andrew Keller to the International Trade and Investment practice in its Washington, D.C. office.
Federal Judges Survey: Featured E-Discovery Case Law Report
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For the third consecutive year, federal judges do not feel the typical attorney has the required knowledge to be effectively counseling clients on e-discovery matters, according to Exterro’s Third Annual Judges Surve
Neil Gorsuch: Scalia’s Views Mixed With Kennedy’s Style
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Gorsuch may be more conservative than Kennedy when it comes to expanding individual rights, but he seems to lack Scalia’s fervor for overturning liberal precedents from decades past, according to The Los Angeles Times.
Many More Legal Challenges Likely for Trump’s Executive Order on Immigration
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Scholars say that President Trump’s executive order on immigration is likely to face a series of new legal challenges about whether it violates a 1965 anti-discrimination law and the Constitution, The Washington Post reports.
IRS Rolls Out New Compliance Campaigns for Large Businesses
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The Internal Revenue Service’s Large Business and International division is taking a new approach to tax compliance, with a series of 13 campaigns aimed at cracking down on tax evasion, reports Accounting Today.
Is Trump Immigrant Order Repeating History? An Attorney Says Maybe
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The First Amendment prohibits government action that favors one religion over another, and the current executive order clearly does so by giving non-Muslims priority status, says David Coale of Lynn Pinker Cox Hurst.
Manatt Adds Payments and Consumer Financial Services Lawyer In New York
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Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, announced that Anita L. Boomstein has joined the New York office as chair of the firm’s global payments practice, joining the firm from Hughes Hubbard and Reed LLP.
Stradley Ronon Lands Patent Attorney from Pepper Hamilton
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Stradley Ronon announces thatpatent attorney Paul K. Legaard, Ph.D., has joined the firm as a partner in its Malvern, Pennsylvania, office. He was most recently a partner at Pepper Hamilton.
Addressing Environmental Claims and Obligations in Chapter 11
Event, Feb. 8, 1 p.m. EST
Practical Law and IWIRC NY offer a complimentary webinar addressing environmental claims and obligations in Chapter 11 with leading bankruptcy attorneys and advisors.
