This examination of the “State of the Union” for insurance defense counsel was commissioned by the CLM and performed by Suite 200 Solutions. It follows on the heels of the CLM’s 2023 Litigation Management Study that surveyed senior claims and litigation executives, and is a follow-up to the CLM’s 2020 Defense Counsel Study, which was the first defense counsel study commissioned by the CLM.

Personal branding can aid professional advancement, but when attorneys engage in personal branding, they must take care to avoid running afoul of the ethical rules governing attorneys’ self-promotion. This whitepaper provides tips for how to safely develop your personal brand and leverage it to advance your legal career.

Many attorneys dream of one day landing a coveted General Counsel position because it’s considered the career pinnacle for in-house counsel. To help inform these job-seekers, I’ve asked successful GCs and CLOs about their tips and suggestions for attorneys aspiring to reach the top seat in a corporate legal department.

Microsoft 365 was already widely-used before 2020, and the rise of remote work since then has caused adoption of this cloud-based solution to rapidly increase. Today, understanding the functionalities – and limitations – of the Microsoft 365 environment and its discovery tools has become essential for legal teams.

As the world’s economies continue to reach across borders, US counsel representing companies of all sizes are more frequently required to gather data from other countries. This paper provides those counsel with practical guidance regarding the logistical and operational challenges that arise in a typical matter requiring cross-border discovery.

Summary Losing a key employee is never easy. They often take with them institutional knowledge, important relationships, and critical skill sets. All this is enough of a challenge, but if they also take

Legal professionals give a lot of lip service to the importance of diversity and inclusion, yet moving the needle in those areas is challenging. Fortunately, there are ways you can change biased hiring and professional practices in order to transform your organization into a more inclusive and prosperous business.

The majority of eDiscovery work takes place in the context of litigation, but a significant amount of it takes place instead in the context of investigations. Although the available ESI and eDiscovery technologies are the same, the realities of handling investigations can be different in some ways important ways.

Despite years of discussion in the eDiscovery industry about the power and importance of sampling techniques – particularly in the context of technology-assisted review (TAR), many practitioners remain unfamiliar with what they can accomplish with them, and when, outside of TAR, they might do so.

Second Requests are high velocity, high volume, and high visibility — under normal circumstances. Now, as legal departments are facing an unprecedented post-pandemic economy and an ever-growing reliance on digital communication, the demands in this final merger step are higher than ever.

Over the decade since TAR first rose to prominence, solutions, acronyms, and new cases have proliferated dramatically. All of this rapid technical and legal evolution has made it challenging for practitioners to get a simple handle on TAR and CAL approaches and what they mean for their matters.

If you’re human, you have biases. There’s no way to change this—the human brain is evolutionarily wired to take shortcuts. In the modern world, these shortcuts cause all of us to have implicit or unconscious biases around race, gender, and other inherent characteristics of our fellow humans.

The metrics-tracking legal department gains actionable insights that it can apply not only to internal operations but also to broader, corporate-wide assessments that impact decision-making.

This white paper reviews what you need to know about self-service eDiscovery, including the problems it’s designed to solve and the benefits it brings to the practice of law.

When working remotely, there are circumstances that can compromise a lawyer’s professional obligations, such as a lack of privacy at home, cybersecurity risks, and the difficulty of supervising others remotely.

In 2015, the first explicit reference to social media appeared in the FRCP. Since then, many new cases involving social media evidence have appeared each year, and the vast majority of law firms have handled at least some cases involving such evidence.

2019 - 2020 Law Department Benchmarking Report Consilio is a leader in legal operations surveys with annual reports on the industry and industry-specific survey reports, such as the 2018 Pharma survey report.

CLM Follow-up Study: Covid-19 Impact on Claim Frequency The CLM (Claims and Litigation Management Alliance) is the industry's largest professional trade association for claims and litigation professionals. With more than 45,000 members, the

Why Now Is the Time for Legal Teams to Invest in Self-Service eDiscovery for Smaller Matters In-house legal departments and law firms often have a steady flow of small-scale matters, including, but not

eDiscovery in a Post-COVID World The COVID-19 pandemic transformed how businesses and their employees work almost overnight. For those of us handling litigation and regulatory matters, the pandemic demanded substantial changes to how