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Squire Sanders Hammonds is part of the international legal practice Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, founded through the combination of Hammonds and Squire, Sanders & Dempsey on 1 January 2011. At Squire Sanders, sound legal counsel is combined with a deep knowledge of the clients' businesses to resolve their legal challenges. The firm cares about the quality of its services, the success of its clients and the relationships that are forged through those successes.
The client base of the firm's global legal practice spans every type of business, both private and public, worldwide. The firm advises a diverse mix of clients, from Fortune 100 and FTSE 100 corporations to emerging companies and from individuals to local and national governments. In the private sector, the firm provides the full range of legal advice required to implement practical strategies and resolve disputes. In the public sector, the firm counsels governments on privatisation of whole industries and on establishment of regulatory systems under which new private businesses can compete. It also serves the regional needs of the countries and cities it calls home.
Whatever is needed, the firm is able to deliver the seamless cross-practice, cross-border and industry-specific support that clients require for success in today's competitive markets.
Clients expect knowledge of their business as well as high-quality legal skills from their law firms. Squire Sanders' combination of legal and industry experience allows the firm to better analyse client requirements and develop the right approach for the matter at hand. Clients receive tested insight and guidance from a team that understands their needs and is able to offer tailored solutions.
Squire Sanders is dedicated to its clients' success, and their satisfaction shows it. The firm continues to advise successor organisations of clients that it represented at its formation some 120 years ago.
Squire Sanders operates as a ‘one-firm firm' rather than a loose confederation of separate offices or practices. With 1,275 lawyers in 36 offices located in 16 countries on four continents, the firm's global legal practice is in the markets where its clients do business. Squire Sanders also has strong working relationships with independent firms in Europe and the Middle East, as well as the Squire Sanders Legal Counsel Worldwide Network, which includes independent firms across Latin America.
The firm's extensive practice and industry knowledge is shared throughout Squire Sanders via one of the most robust technology platforms in the legal business, as well as ongoing rotation of lawyers to its offices around the world. In addition, it applies knowledge- and project-management tools to implement continual business process improvements and enhance the value of their legal services.
Squire Sanders emphasises quality, efficiency and alignment with client goals as core standards to improve continually its service delivery and the value of what it does for its clients. Squire Sanders encourages and manages processes and tools to improve pricing models, training and resource optimisation, knowledge management and more, all centred on the firm's core focus - delivering the services its clients want, when and where they want them and with the value they deserve.
www.ssd.com
Legal Week is essential reading for business lawyers, offering clear reporting and hard-hitting analysis of the biggest and most up-to-date news in the legal profession, as well as investigating the issues behind the stories from the UK and around the world. Legal Week Events manages high-profile events, creating unrivalled programmes and networking opportunities while legalweek.com provides an indispensable online resource with daily news bulletins and an archive of over 27,000 news stories.
www.legalweek.com
IntraLinks is a leading global provider of Software-as-a-Service ("SaaS") solutions for securely managing content, exchanging critical business information and collaborating within and among organizations.
Our solutions enable organizations to control, track, search and exchange time-sensitive information inside and outside the firewall, all within a secure and easy-to-use environment. We help our customers eliminate the inherent risks and inefficiencies of using email, fax, courier services and other existing solutions to collaborate and exchange information.
More than 1 million professionals in industries including legal, financial services, pharmaceutical, consumer, energy, industrial, insurance and technology, as well as government agencies, have utilized IntraLinks' easy-to-use solutions.
www.intralinks.com
Winston & Strawn LLP is an international commercial law firm with nearly 1,000 attorneys in 11 offices, including Charlotte, N.C., Chicago, Geneva, London, Los Angeles, Moscow, New York, Newark, N.J., Paris, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. More than 150 years old, the firm has a proud tradition of professional excellence and dedicated client service, a diverse as well as collegial culture, and a commitment to pro bono representation. Understanding that our clients face many challenges on a daily basis, Winston & Strawn provides realistic solutions to legal issues to help make our clients' business lives simpler.
To learn more about the firm and its attorneys, please visit www.winston.com
Regulatory and risk management pressures are driving law firms and corporate legal departments to elevate information governance to a critical business function. With the ability to manage petabytes of data and understand the meaning of complex information, Autonomy enables disciplined and automated information management. IDC recently recognized Autonomy as having the largest market share and fastest growth in the worldwide search and discovery market. Autonomy's technology allows computers to harness the full richness of human information, forming a conceptual and contextual understanding of any piece of electronic data, including unstructured information, such as text, email, web pages, voice, or video. Autonomy's software powers the full spectrum of mission-critical enterprise applications including pan-enterprise search, information governance, end-to-end eDiscovery, records management, archiving and business process automation, and is used by over 10 of the Top 10 Global Banks, 19 of the Financial Times' Top 25 financial institutions, 1,700 law firm customers, including 77 of the Global 100 legal firms, and over 25,000 corporate clients.
As a leading commercial law firm we listen to our clients' issues and objectives and think hard about their business and markets. Our clients are major UK businesses and public sector organisations who come to us for excellent commercial, corporate, real estate and dispute resolution legal support. Our success has been built on forging strong, long term client relationships, which enable us to deliver effective commercial advice. We're committed to delivering not just results, but an excellent service experience. Our clients have access to more than 600 people nationwide, including 77 partners and over 360 other legal professionals.
Supplier of the world's leading document automation software ContractExpress, Business Integrity has over ten years of experience developing and supporting advanced online document assembly, self-service contract creation and contract management solutions that elevate the business of our customers and their clients. We have blue-chip references at the world's leading corporations and law firms including Allen & Overy, Amazon, AXA PPP Healthcare, Cadence, Cisco Systems, Clifford Chance, Eversheds, Henkel, Latham & Watkins, Linklaters, Littler Mendelson, Microsoft, Perkins Cole, Pepsi, PetSmart, Reed Smith, Simmons & Simmon, Sodexo, Standard Chartered and Wilson Sonsini.
EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations, helping organizations store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset - information - in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way.
To address Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) regulations surrounding discovery of electronically stored information, EMC offers expertise in, and solutions for, eDiscovery, information governance, archiving, and records management. With expanding rules and regulations, EMC makes it possible for organizations to defend the corporate interests, meet governance challenges, and ensure regulatory and audit compliance, while balancing risks and expense.
For more information about the EMC capabilities and solutions, visit www.emc.com/ediscovery or www.emc.com/informationgovernance.
Huron Consulting Group provides guidance and business services to assist organizations confronted with the challenges of today’s legal environment. These results-driven services add value to corporate law departments, law firms and government agencies by helping to reduce legal spend, enhance client service, and increase operational effectiveness. Our team delivers results such as sustainable cost reductions ranging from 15 to 40 percent, process and technology assessments followed by successful implementations, and discovery cost savings of up to 60 percent. For more information on Huron Consulting Group, please visit www.huronconsultinggroup.com
IBM's Information Lifecycle Governance (ILG) solutions enable customers to more effectively retain and archive information, efficiently meet ediscovery obligations, and defensibly dispose of information, to lower both cost and risk. The ILG solution portfolio provides capabilities in the following areas:
-- Smart Archive solution set helps IT stakeholders control the explosive growth of multiple information types, including email, files, SharePoint and SAP applications, to reduce costs and optimise infrastructure
-- eDiscovery Management solution set which provides Legal stakeholders with more rigorous and more efficient eDiscovery processes to lower risk, and enables Legal stakeholders to conduct earlier assessment to improve outcomes and lower cost
-- Records and Retention solution set helps Records Management and Compliance stakeholders meet regulatory and legal obligations associated with records and manage retention for all information, to reduce risk and cost
-- Governance and Disposition Enablement solution set which, when used in conjunction with the other bundles, enables IT to consistently, defensibly dispose of unnecessary information, retire applications and reclaim infrastructure to stem the rising information tide and dramatically lower operating costs.
www.ibm.com/software/ilg
As the region's economic development agency, provides the strategic vision for the Financial Services, ICT and Business Services sectors in Northern Ireland and is at the forefront of the drive to further increase and diversify the region's capability for inward investment.
Northern Ireland is a well established location for outsourcing and shared services centres attracting global companies primarily because of its pool of well-educated people who have a professional attitude and strong work ethic. The availability of talented people is complemented by competitive costs, a favourable macro-environment and sophisticated infrastructure. Recent investments and reinvestments by companies such as Allen & Overy, Herbert Smith and Citi is testament to Northern Ireland's compelling nearshore proposition for international firms seeking an optimum mix of high quality labour in a low risk, cost-effective location.
For more information:
www.investni.com
Used by 95% of the FTSE 100, the Lexis Legal Intelligence suite of products provides the legal resources in-house lawyers need to protect and grow their business. Our practical guidance, handbooks and online legal information services give you the answers you need, when you need them - helping you to work more efficiently and making sure you add value to commercial negotiations and keep your company compliant. Our range of webinars and conferences help you stay up-to-date with legislative changes that could impact on your firm, and enable you to network with and learn from your peers.
http://www.lexislegalintelligence.co.uk/intelligence/in-house
MLex Market Intelligence is the largest independent agency in Europe devoted specifically to covering regulatory and policy developments in and among European institutions. We provide exclusive market intelligence, analysis and commentary to finance, investment and legal professionals worldwide. MLex offers a range of services including MLex EU, MLex E3 ( energy, emissions and environment) and MLex FS ( financial services) and has recently expanded its coverage to the US antitrust market as well as publishing a quarterly magazine to support our core offering. We have a proven ability to uncover regulatory risk and supply our clients with the latest in-depth coverage of regulatory threats and opportunities ahead of the curve. Without MLex, you simply do not have the whole story.
For more information about MLex Market Intelligence please contact:
Telephone: +44 207 618 7908
Email: customerservices@mlex.com
Website: www.mlex.com
Nabarro is a major corporate law firm renowned for our positive, practical approach. Our aim is to deliver the highest quality advice as clearly and concisely as possible no matter how complex the situation. We are an ambitious partnership with 125 partners offering a broad range of corporate legal services to major national and international clients. The firm's headquarters are in central London with a network of offices in Singapore, Sheffield and Brussels. We draw on longstanding relationships with an international network of selected firms for cross-border work and work with our alliance partners in Europe. For further information visit www.nabarro.com
Nabarro LLP, Lacon House, 84 Theobalds Road, London WC1X 8RW.
+44 (0) 20 7524 6000
www.nabarro.com
NCTM is one of the top independent law firms in Italy. With offices in Milan, Rome, Verona, Brussels, London and Shanghai and approximately 270 professionals, including 42 equity partners, NCTM has both the resources and expertise to handle the most important and complex deals in Italy and internationally. The firm offers full legal services across all corporate sectors to both international and domestic clients through its network of offices in all of Italy's major commercial hubs, Brussels and London. The cornerstones of NCTM's practice are the excellent technical competence, the high quality of services offered, the efficiency of internal processes and the relationships with customers. NCTM offers its services in almost twenty areas, standing out in the market for a specific focus in M&A, Private Equity and Tax, guaranteeing customers a comprehensive service for all their different needs with multidisciplinary teams. The client base includes multinational companies, investment funds, banks, insurance companies as well as family owned companies.
Practical Law Company (PLC) is the leading provider of practical know-how, market intelligence and transactional analysis for lawyers. We deliver and maintain the practical guidance, analysis and materials lawyers need daily. To do this, we employ over 200 legal experts, all with significant experience in leading law firms, companies, professional services organisations and the public sector. No other organisation employs this quality of experienced professionals dedicated to providing continually maintained online know-how. We change the way lawyers work, improving the confidence of their advice and efficiency of their practice.
Thunderhead changes the way companies engage with their customers, enabling measurement and learning from every interaction to drive greater loyalty and profitability.
Our innovative business user-driven software, Thunderhead NOW, delivers new levels of personalization, context and compliance with true multi-channel capability - the right information, to the right person, at the right time, in the right format.
Founded in 2001, Thunderhead has insurance, retail banking, government and capital market customers on three continents. They optimise their customer engagement - we help them make every communication count.
www.thunderhead.com
TransPerfect Legal Solutions (TLS)
TransPerfect Legal Solutions (TLS) is the world's leading provider of translation services to legal professionals worldwide. Our full suite of legal support solutions includes digital forensics, web-based hosting and review, interpretation, on-site document review, court reporting, and more. With over 60 global offices, TLS offers round-the-clock service and the industry's fastest turnaround times.
www.transperfectlegal.com
Everyone from your CEO to your shareholders wants you to improve efficiency and reduce costs. That's why it's so important to be able to quickly get an accurate view of where your department stands, and share that view with others. Ironically, even with all the data your department generates, it's not always easy to get the clear picture you need. Chances are, your financial data, matters, and documents are in three separate systems. Since you never see it all in one place, it's hard to make sense of it, quickly generate reports, or, more importantly, use it to guide your matter or departmental decisions.
CT TyMetrix offers solutions to help corporate legal departments reduce costs, make better decisions and improve collaboration with outside counsel. CT TyMetrix solutions enable corporate law departments to capture critical metrics that drive internal and external expense management, better manage internal staff and law firm performance, strengthen engagement decisions, and increase profitability. The data gathered through CT TyMetrix system is channelled through desktop reports enabling these organisations to reduce costs, manage outside counsel and vendor relationships fairly and efficiently.
www.cttymetrix.com
ZyLAB's industry-leading, modular e-Discovery and enterprise information management solutions enable organizations to manage enterprise data in any format and language, to mitigate risk, reduce costs, investigate matters and elicit business productivity and intelligence.
The ZyLAB e-Discovery system is directly aligned with the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) and the company's products and services are used by corporations, government agencies, courts, and law firms, as well as on specific projects for legal services, auditing, and accounting providers.
ZyLAB has received numerous industry accolades and is one of the few companies to be positioned in Gartner's "Magic Quadrant for Information Access Technology", its "MarketScope for E-Discovery and Litigation Support Vendors", as well as its "MarketScope for Records Management". Headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and McLean, Virginia, ZyLAB also serves local markets from regional offices in New York, Barcelona, Frankfurt, London, Paris, and Singapore.
www.zylab.co.uk
The Winmark CLO (Chief Legal Officer) Network, chaired by Sandie Okoro of Barings, is a sector powerhouse for general counsel and heads of legal, with over two hundred members involved, representing £2bn of legal spend globally. A third of the FTSE 100, seven central government departments and numerous Fortune companies are members. The network is designed to enable its members "to be the best they can be in their role". Indicative members include Vodafone UK, Barclays, Marks & Spencer, BAE Systems and Home Office.
www.winmarkeurope.com/cloprogramme
Legal Week Law is a resource centre for in-house lawyers. It provides Legal Week's large and growing readership of company lawyers with a free and easy-to-use digital library of legal briefings that is updated on an hourly basis. Briefings, which are provided by many of the world's leading law firms, are categorised according to their practice area, business sector and jurisdiction so that users can find them quickly. Users are also directed to the latest and most popular briefings, editor's picks and related documents. It is also possible for users to set up tailored email alerts so they are notified whenever there is an update within the practice areas that interest them.
www.legalweeklaw.com
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