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In-House Legal Departments, like any other business function, must be efficient and effective to deliver the best possible results. They must balance their workload, comply with regulatory requirements, and provide legal counsel to their organization in a cost-effective and streamlined manner. That’s where a Legal Operations professional can help, particularly by prioritizing strategic planning, technology, and information governance to ensure
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Collaboration during litigation is critical to ensure that all relevant information is discovered and reviewed. However, the emergence of various communication platforms like Slack and Teams has made the process more challenging. Collecting data from these platforms can be difficult as messages are stored differently, and there are different types of communications and channels to consider. Additionally, preserving and collecting
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In-House legal departments are under more pressure than ever to reduce costs, improve performance, and provide top-quality work. To achieve these objectives, leaders in legal operations can begin building higher-performing teams through optimization by focusing on these three key aspects: optimizing and maintaining organizational health, practicing operational efficiency, and training and developing the legal department.
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In recent years, there has been an increasing trend for companies to claim environmental sustainability, making public commitments to lower carbon emissions and other eco-friendly measures. However, this rise in environmental claims has also led to the concern of greenwashing, where companies make false or exaggerated statements about their environmental practices. This article delves into the issue of greenwashing, its
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The role of Legal Operations is becoming increasingly important in today’s fast-paced and complex corporate legal department. With more companies expecting their legal departments to contribute to their overall vision and mission, as well as their bottom line, a greater emphasis has been placed on managing and optimizing these departments.
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Collaboration data is essential for many businesses in the digital age. However, determining how long to keep records on communication tools like Slack and Teams has become a challenge due to legal cases. Companies must balance regulatory requirements, business needs, and records hygiene when managing collaboration data. To help with information governance, many organizations are turning to technology. This article
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In recent years, there has been an increasing trend for companies to claim environmental sustainability, making public commitments to lower carbon emissions and other eco-friendly measures. However, this rise in environmental claims has also led to the concern of greenwashing, where companies make false or exaggerated statements about their environmental practices. This article delves into the issue of greenwashing, its
Continue Reading The Downside of ESG: The Dangers of Greenwashing

The rise of collaboration tools like Slack and MS Teams has brought about new challenges for legal departments. While these platforms have become the new water cooler in remote workplaces, they pose unique information governance and ediscovery challenges. This is due to the informal and casual nature of chats on these platforms, which includes the use of emojis, memes, and
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ESG and sustainability are two concepts that have gained significant prominence recently. The World Bank Group’s International Finance Corporation defines ESG as a set of factors that companies and investors consider regarding environmental, social, and governance issues. On the other hand, sustainability refers to organizations’ actions to achieve their environmental, social, and corporate governance goals. This article delves into the
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Why Are ESI Protocols Important for Legal Teams During Ediscovery?
Ensure Preservation of Relevant ESI: ESI protocols help to ensure that relevant ESI is properly preserved, collected, and produced. These protocols can specify the types of ESI that must be preserved, how it should be collected and stored, and who is responsible for ensuring its preservation.
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We Take Search for Granted
Remember the days when you wanted to look for a document using the file manager on your desktop and you’d forgotten exactly where it was stored? It would take forever and sometimes freeze the operating system, and then you still didn’t find the file you were looking for, so you went to each folder on
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