Mark Andrews

Commercial lawsuits are occurring in record numbers at the same time legal departments are trying to control the cost of litigation. Here are three tips to help keep a lid on costs without sacrificing...

Super Typhoon Haiyan recently roared through the Philippines with devastating consequences for many residents. The economic impact will take months to assess, but early estimates show that Typhoon...

General Counsel of major corporations around the world continue to worry about the costs and uncertainties surrounding preservation of electronically stored data and the impact of social media on the...

Corporate Counsel magazine recently published its first-ever 2013 Legal Process Outsourcing Survey, which polled law departments to ascertain their views on legal process outsourcing (LPO). The...

Following the global financial crisis, businesses are facing increased regulatory compliance pressures. To tighten regulatory oversight in the UK, the UK government restructured financial regulation...

Legal consulting firm Altman Weil released its fifth annual Law Firms in Transition Survey, which revealed that since the survey's inception in 2009, there has been wider acceptance of legal...

The legal services industry continues to shift as both in-house and outside counsel grapple with perplexing issues involving efficient and effective delivery of legal services. These issues are...

Social media presents new challenges for in-house counsel when responding to discovery requests. There are numerous social media sites today, such as Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn, and all have...

Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) arrangements often involve the management of large volumes of personal information about an organization's customers or employees. Often, this information includes...

The Global Outsourcing Association of Lawyers (GOAL) will return to New York City for the 4th Annual New York Global Litigation Conference and Exhibition in 2014. The conference theme of ‘Tactics to...

With compliance requirements on the rise in many industry sectors, the demands on in-house compliance teams have intensified. The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, U.S. health...

For lawyers, tracking and billing time is a way of life. But for the client/lawyer relationship, the billable hour can become a burden or even an obstacle. Yet despite recent outcries for reform, the...

Given sweeping patent reform in the US and Europe coupled with exponential growth in the global IP industry, the Global Outsourcing Association for Lawyers (GOAL) is producing an international...

With the ascent in outsourcing and with more and more global organizations outsourcing business processes and IT services to India, there has been a formidable number of legal issues related to both...

The most popular Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) destinations include China, Israel, Philippines, Sri Lanka and, of course, India. For a decade, India has reigned as the world's premier outsourcing...