December 6, 2023

Global Counsel Awards 2018: Shortlist announced

Global Counsel Awards in association with the Association of Corporate Counsel Lexology are delighted to announce the shortlist for the 12th annual Global Counsel Awards, held in association with the Association of Corporate Counsel. With the help of the ACC, we have conducted in-depth analysis of in-house lawyers and legal departments worldwide. More than 4,500 […]

Client Choice 2018 – winners announced

London, United Kingdom – The winners of the 2018 Client Choice Awards were announced on February 8. Established in 2005, the Client Choice Awards recognise those partners around the world that stand apart for the excellent client service they provide. The criteria for the awards focus on the ability to add real value to clients’ […]

Goldman Sachs Pays $5 Billion in latest mortgage settlement

By Sue Reisinger, From Corporate Counsel Federal prosecutors today announced a $5 billion deal with the Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to resolve claims over Goldman Sachs’ misconduct in packaging and selling mortgage-backed securities from 2005 to 2007. Such misconduct was widespread among financial institutions at the time and led to the economic collapse of 2008. […]

Survey: Many companies are ignoring the risks of ‘Shadow IT’

By Stephanie Forshee, From Corporate Counsel Employees commonly use cloud-based services such as Evernote and Dropbox to share their work, even though these activities often haven’t been sanctioned by the employer’s IT department. This sort of unsanctioned information sharing, known as “shadow IT,” can lead to inadvertent exposure of confidential corporate information. But many companies […]

Client Choice Awards 2016

Client Choice is delighted to announce that all 2016 winners have now been inducted to our fully searchable online resource. Drawing on more than 10 years of research carried out for the Client Choice Awards, Client Choice now offers direct feedback from clients on more than 800 of the best legal service providers in over […]

Latin American Counsel Awards 2016 – Shortlist announced

Lexology and the International Law Office (ILO) is delighted to announce the shortlist for the sixth annual Latin American Counsel Awards in association with the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC). With the help of the ACC, we have conducted in-depth analysis of in-house lawyers and legal departments worldwide. More than 4,500 individual nominations from corporate […]

Top Women Lawyers in the Fortune 500

By Sue Reisinger, Corporate Counsel Browse our interactive chart of women who lead the legal departments at Fortune 500 companies. Aerospace products, automation and high technology, transportation systems—can a woman be a successful general counsel at such a “hard-hat” company? Katherine “Kate” Adams, senior vice president and GC at Honeywell International Inc., is living proof […]