“The risk of trying new technology tools available to in-house lawyers is not as high as the risk of being left behind,” says Mike Haven, senior operations and litigation counsel at NetApp, a Fortune 500 data management and storage company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
Someone once described a traditional legal career as a predictable, well-known path that generations of lawyers take. A deviation from it is frowned upon and can be legal career suicide. Thus, many lawyers miss all the scenic routes!
Even though they facilitate their long voyages as private companies, flourishing private secondary offerings are not always an unmitigated good for pre-IPO companies. In particular, without careful management at the company level, employee trading of private company shares can have a disastrous impact on issues like preserving confidential information or valuing options, and can be a distraction within the organization.
Imagine having a fast-paced, high-stakes, high-profile legal job where every interaction with your boss is immortalized by a photographer as you make your recommendations that almost certainly will have implications for the United States and the rest of the world.
The Court of Justice of the EU recently ruled that the current US-EU Safe Harbor Certification Program is no longer a valid method for ensuring adequate privacy protection of data transfers between the United States and the European Union.
We recently caught up with Stephanie Adamson King who serves as general counsel at AdRoll, which is an ad technology company best known as a leader in retargeting products across platforms and devices for Facebook, Twitter, Apple iAd, and millions of other websites.
I recently caught up with Brian Cabrera who serves as senior vice president and general counsel at NVIDIA Corporation, a market leader in visual computing.
