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Break Down the Silos and Lead Your Firm's Information Services From the Data
Law firms are metrics-driven organizations, and the need for accurate metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) will only continue to increase as law firms answer the client's demands to re-tool service delivery and organizational structure. This need for metrics-driven analysis now extends to the firms' research services, a heretofore last bastion of resistance to technology and measurement. This is simply no longer the case: whether in-house or outsourced, a firm's information services must be as competitively strategic as any other of its operations, which translates in other words to “demonstrable in its efficiency, cost-effectiveness and ability to produce value.” This means metrics and leading from the data.
A law firm's critical information processes depend on quick and accurate communication among the firms' software applications to provide consistent service, deliver business intelligence, and drive additional value to the legal work product ' all while holding down or reducing costs. To that end, the introduction of new content platforms has been a double-edged sword: New market entrants have improved content, service, and delivery choices, but their lack of expertise has been resulting in duplicative content, choice confusion, and/or mismanagement of the content itself.
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.