Live Conference:
Tuesday, May 3, 2:30 p.m.,
New York, NY

Bloomberg BNA will present a live conference titled Big Law Business Diversity & Inclusion Conference: A Call to Action, the third in the series of Diversity & Inclusion events, where Big Law Business will begin to take the next steps toward driving results and holding our profession accountable for progress.

The event will be on Tuesday, May 3, 2016 in New York, NY, beginning at 2:30 p.m. EDT and ending with an hour-long reception at 5:30 p.m. It will be at  the Harold Pratt House at 58 East 68th Street. General Counsel News readers may attend at no charge. (Registration form)

General counsel and their legal teams play a unique and important role in the conversation regarding Diversity & Inclusion in the legal profession – as the buyside of legal services, they are well-positioned to drive and influence the quality of legal services they receive. They are also currently moving more legal work in-house and the department’s ability to ensure diversity of ideas and thought leadership within their own teams is critical.

During this exclusive event, Big Law Business will convene chief legal counsel and their corporate senior diversity officers as well as law firm managing partners to focus on actionable results, accountability, and drive movement forward toward diversity in the legal profession.

The event is an opportunity to explore the success Big Law practices are having meeting their own workforce diversification goals, plus:

• Interviews and presentations on best practice
• Methods law schools, law firms, and the judiciary can utilize to collaborate to feed the in-house pipeline
• Ideas to take back to legal departments for immediate and long-term action

The conference agenda is available online.

Register for the conference.

Webinar: Thursday, April 28,
10 a.m. PDT

SecureDocs, a virtual data room provider for secure document sharing and storage, and Corum Group, a seller of technology companies globally,will host a webinar focused on examining the growing trend of Asian buyers eagerly seeking technology acquisition and investment opportunities, particularly in North America and Europe. The webinar also will consider what this means for the technology industry across the globe.

This webinar titled, “Is Your Company’s Buyer in Asia?,” will be on Thursday, April 28, 2016 at 10 am PDT.

This webinar is especially relevant for the business leaders from the technology industry who are interested in understanding and capitalizing on the shifting tide of buyers from Asia, and their huge appetites for growth companies located in North America and Europe, SecureDocs says in a release.

During this 60-minute webinar, featured speaker Jim Perkins, Vice President at Corum Group, will present an in-depth analysis of what buyers from Asia are after, how to reach them, and what the ramifications are of doing business overseas. Additionally, Perkins will introduce and examine critical elements of working with buyers from Asia, including:

-Why Asian buyers are so eager for North American and European technology acquisitions.
-Why Asian buyers are doing deals of all sizes, from very large to moderate.
-How to best reach and leverage the potential acquirers in Asia.
-What it’s like working with a buyer in Asia.

Register for the webinar.

From the SecureDocs release:

About SecureDocs Virtual Data Room:
SecureDocs is a Virtual Data Room for businesses raising funds, going through M&A, licensing Intellectual Property, and those who recognize the importance of safeguarding their most critical business documentation. SecureDocs has an easy-to-use solution that keeps businesses organized and ready for opportunity, without breaking the bank. Created by the engineers and team who helped develop GoToMeeting, GoToMyPC, AppFolio, and Rightscale, the team is dedicated to building software solutions that are highly secure, easily adopted, and affordable for any type or size of business.

About Corum Group:
Corum Group is the global leader in merger and acquisition services, specializing in serving sellers of software and information technology companies worldwide. With offices globally, Corum has completed over US $7 billion in software M&A transactions over the last 30 years, spanning six continents. Corum’s M&A advisors are highly experienced former tech CEOs, who are supported by the industry’s leading researchers, writers and valuators.

Economic uncertainty, increased regulatory scrutiny and the rise of Big Data are just a few realities disrupting business as usual. How are innovative corporations managing the legal challenges of a new highly cost-sensitive, minutely examined and digitally connected world? According to Jason Parkman, CEO of Mitratech, the leading provider of Enterprise Legal Management (ELM) solutions, they are turning their legal departments into their organizations’ best-run business units.

In his new White Paper “10 Ways to Transform Your Legal Department,” Parkman provides the blueprint to evolve a legal department from a cost center to a revenue-generating micro-business. Parkman instructs general counsels how to take charge of corporate and legal data through analytics, integrated technology and software, strategic and global thinking, impactful training, and purposeful collaboration among business units. Parkman points out one particular game-changer his company has witnessed recently: Legal departments employing a director of legal operations focused on operational excellence and with an understanding of business, technology and law are achieving increased performance.

Parkman concludes that legal departments function best when lawyers are allowed to practice law rather than become mired in redundant tasks better left to automation.

Download the white paper.