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Creating a Catalyst For Change
Like many other companies, my employer, Rockwell Automation, wanted to become more cost-efficient, have the capability to perform benchmarking, make the best staffing decisions and serve our business proactively by providing legal advice that helps lower and manage the company's risks. However, our inability to monitor and report on our outside counsel spending was holding us back from meeting these goals. With the help of an outside consultant, we were advised to implement a solution that combines e-billing, matter management and reporting ' which was a fairly new concept a few years ago.
Under the direction of Doug Hagerman, our new general counsel (“GC”), I was assigned to lead a team in implementing a legal enterprise management system from Bridgeway Software. Serving as both Law Department Advisor and Project Manager, my role was to help select, design and implement an e-billing/matter management solution, which can be tricky business to say the least. I knew this firsthand because we had already implemented two different solutions over the span of three years. Implementing Bridgeway's matter-management offering, eCounsel, as our second solution was a success due to many factors, but there is no question that lessons learned from the first implementation came in very handy this time around.
The DOJ's Corporate Enforcement Policy: One Year Later
The DOJ's Criminal Division issued three declinations since the issuance of the revised CEP a year ago. Review of these cases gives insight into DOJ's implementation of the new policy in practice.
The DOJ's New Parameters for Evaluating Corporate Compliance Programs
The parameters set forth in the DOJ's memorandum have implications not only for the government's evaluation of compliance programs in the context of criminal charging decisions, but also for how defense counsel structure their conference-room advocacy seeking declinations or lesser sanctions in both criminal and civil investigations.
Use of Deferred Prosecution Agreements In White Collar Investigations
This article discusses the practical and policy reasons for the use of DPAs and NPAs in white-collar criminal investigations, and considers the NDAA's new reporting provision and its relationship with other efforts to enhance transparency in DOJ decision-making.
Bankruptcy Sales: Finding a Diamond In the Rough
There is no efficient market for the sale of bankruptcy assets. Inefficient markets yield a transactional drag, potentially dampening the ability of debtors and trustees to maximize value for creditors. This article identifies ways in which investors may more easily discover bankruptcy asset sales.
A Lawyer's System for Active Reading
Active reading comprises many daily tasks lawyers engage in, including highlighting, annotating, note taking, comparing and searching texts. It demands more than flipping or turning pages.