By Cash Butler and James Johnson. ClariLegal had the pleasure of interviewing Mark Smolik, Vice President, General Counsel, and Chief Compliance Officer at DHL Supply Chain Americas, where he leads the legal, commercial contract management, and compliance teams. After starting out as a law firm associate, Mark moved in-house [...]

By Cash Butler and James Johnson. ClariLegal recently had the privilege to interview Debbie Reynolds, Director of e-Discovery and the Data Privacy Officer at Eimer Stahl. Although her educational and early career backgrounds were in library science, Debbie was always interested in data and data flows. Debbie quickly moved [...]

By Cash Butler. What is value when it comes to the delivery of legal services? Whether you, as a corporation, a law firm, or a vendor of legal services, are a buyer or seller of legal services like litigation or M&A, you may have never asked yourself that question. [...]

Communication is critical during the RFP process – without good communication, poor decisions are made, and time and resources are wasted as non-relevant parties are accidentally looped into the process, relevant parties are given incorrect or unclear instructions, or activities are unnecessarily repeated when less than all parties are looped [...]

In building an effective RFP template for your company’s legal support bidding process, you will want to ensure that the RFP both includes information about your company for the vendor to understand your business, as well as asks for information about the vendor for your company to get to know [...]

Nobody wants to be stuck in a relationship with a service provider with whom they are unsatisfied. Such a situation is more difficult when the service provider is an e-discovery vendor – having conflict with your e-discovery vendor can negatively impact on the quality of work you provide to your [...]