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In short: mergers between healthy firms work, Hugh Simons explains, detailing data that shows adding an unhealthy firm into the mix is a recipe for multi-year declines in PEP rank.        

In-house staffers say in a new survey that they want law firms to provide better visibility into their costs and processes. But the respondents gave the firms high marks for the quality and responsiveness of their communications and for how they collaborate on strategy.        

The firm plans to soon expand the platform into Cooley D+O 2.0, which will include additional features such as scalable initial public offering filings.        

Inflexion is investing in the £20 million-revenue A&O affiliate, but that the law firm will retain a ‘significant minority stake’.        

“The complaint’s theory of liability would turn this act of finding out how to obey the law by speaking with counsel into a self-incriminating exercise.” according to the Association of Corporate Counsel’s brief.        

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“There’s a lot of people trying to play a little bit of catch-up, and they’ll run out of opportunity runway if there’s a recession,” said Mark Medice, a principal at LawVision and law firm consultant.        

The law firm vowed to continue the program after the American Alliance for Equal Rights threatened litigation earlier this month.        

In the current environment of changing privacy laws and an uptick in litigation in the area, the defense bar is warning companies that it might be time time to take a hard look at compliance in the wake of a wave of class action lawsuits.        

This complaint was first surfaced by Law.com Radar.