Free Post Law Overview of Corporate Structures New series on corporate structures, like limited liability companies and corporations.
Free Post Law General Counsel as Risk Management Leader It is almost a cliché now to say that the general counsel is also a risk manager. Risk management is top of the agenda for most general counsel. What does it mean to say that the general counsel is a risk manager? The answer depends on the general counsel’s role.
Free Post News Contested Visions: The Value of Systems Theory for Corporate Law Activist investors have used the rhetoric of shareholder value as a cudgel to browbeat boards into selling assets, repurchasing shares, and cutting payroll and research and development to achieve short-term share price increases.
Free Post Business Use the Contract Hierarchy for Better Results It is time to rethink contracts and document management. Understand the contract hierarchy to improve profitability, collaboration, and risk management. The contract hierarchy unifies the legal concept of a contract, document management, and business analysis.
Free Post Law General Counsel Caught Between Contract Speed and Risk Management General counsel must find ways to both manage contract risk and increase contracting productivity on a limited budget. No legal department wants to be the bottleneck for contracts.
Free Post Finance Minimizing Taxes: Keeping it all in the Family Issues and developments for tax strategies that use trusts to allocate taxable income.
Free Post Law What is Legal Entity Management? General counsel, business lawyers, and corporate paralegals serve a vital role in corporate compliance. Without their diligence, the corporate veil would blow away in the wind. The exceptional growth in
Free Post News Changing Role of General Counsel in Germany A tension exists for the legal function between becoming too close to business and becoming isolated in a functional silo.
Free Post News Value Creation, Risk Management and US Bank Holding Company Governance An executive committee... may create an atmosphere of “elitism.” Yet, holding companies with such committees were priced with higher price/book valuations
Free Post Law General Counsel Guide to Entity Management Gone are the days of corporate secretary duties performed in isolation. General counsel are under increasing pressure to deliver and demonstrate value to the organization.
Free Post Law Legal Department, the Business Interruption Team Sales people, managers, and executives mutter about lawyers being the “business interruption team” while the general counsel tries to balance objectives: fast contracts and careful risk management.
