In an era of shrinking budgets and rising complexity, smart general counsel should rethink how they engage legal services. The solution is matching the right work to the right kind of firm.
Massive surprise offers by activist investors for competitor companies in 2025 reminded businesses seeking to protect themselves from hostile takeovers to look back at almost-forgotten defenses.
The debate over the accounting treatment of stablecoins matters not only to companies, accountants, and auditors, but also to investors, regulators, and markets. Clear financial reporting underpins investor confidence and financial stability by extension.
Private credit funds should bolster their compliance programs, with a particular focus on valuation practices, conflict management frameworks, and underwriting standards.
Anthropic’s $1.5 billion settlement agreement with content creators revealed how the balance of power has shifted away from AI companies attempting to collect data, even when they have favorable legal precedent.
Massive surprise offers by activist investors for competitor companies in 2025 reminded businesses seeking to protect themselves from hostile takeovers to look back at almost-forgotten defenses.
New Big Law associates should act like they want to make partner, regardless of their future career plans.
Campaigns to discredit ESG may be morphing from being a questionable policy position to attorneys toeing the line of violating rules of legal ethics.
If law firms really want to develop an AI tool that can independently write a memo or a brief, they’ll need to create their own custom AI tools trained on the mountains of proprietary information at their fingertips. That’s according to Yale law professor Scott Shapiro, who joined our podcast, On The Merits.
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