The Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) Foundation, in collaboration with Ernst & Young, has presented the “2022 State of Cybersecurity Report, an in-house perspective”. The report shows that 84% of companies now give the chief legal officer (CLO) a key role in the organization’s cybersecurity strategy. The report also covers a broad range of cybersecurity activities: […]
The “2022 Trends in Legal Transformation and Technology Report” shows that while legal departments have made progress in their digital transformation efforts, the results indicate that there is still significant margin for improvement in internal processes. While tech digitization is having a profound impact on the legal industry, a majority of legal professionals say they are […]
According to Mergermarket’s Leauge Tables, in the first quarter of 2020, Bär & Karrer is the first Swiss law firm per number of deals. Looking at the tables by value, Lenz & Stahelin tops the ranking.
According to BarkerGilmore report, interesting in-house figures concern annual salary increase rates, gender pay trends and practice areas.
The number of deals of at least Usd 10 billion in Europe hit the lowest number since 2009, but two out the top five major deal are in Switzerland.
The rapid and sudden growth of interest in the world of artificial intelligence seems to have caught the European and, consequently, the Italian labor market by surprise, according to a survey by the social network LinkedIn. The labor market in the sector is still immature, and that fact shows in the unequal distribution of AI […]
Sustainability, disruptive technologies, privacy laws, data security and protection of a brand’s reputation are among the elements that expand the influence and prestige of the chief legal officer (CLO) in companies around the world. This is revealed by the 2019 CLO Survey of the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC)—the world’s largest international lawyer group, with […]
It’s an annual ritual: the ACC value challenge. The Association of Corporate Counsel announces its list of “Value Champions” of the year. What are they (in case you’ve been on another planet the past few years)? “The 2018 Champions use leading management practices–writing applications, leveraging AI, and applying sophisticated soucing and staffing models—to help the […]
