Dan Cooperman, Former Apple GC, & Yours Truly on Firm/Client Dynamics

by | September 27, 2010 | About the Site, Articles, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy

Gerson Lehrman Group
Under Pressure – Understanding
the Dynamics
Between In-House Counsel and Law Firm Management
With Former Apple General Counsel,
Dan Cooperman
and Bruce MacEwen, Founder of Adam Smith, Esq.
Please join two of Gerson Lehrman
Group’s leading legal experts Dan Cooperman, General Counsel of
Apple (2007-2009), and Bruce MacEwen, Founder of Adam Smith,
Esq., for a complimentary Teleconference regarding the changing
economics in the legal marketplace.

Mr. Cooperman and Mr. MacEwen will focus on the unique pressures
and demands in the relationship between corporate legal
departments and the law firms they hire.

Discussion Topics:

  • Current challenges facing
    in-house legal departments and the evolving role of the general
    counsel


  • Assessing law firm responses
    to pricing and service pressure from in-house counsel


  • The alternative fee
    landscape: What works and what does not

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    Thursday, September 30, 2010
    2:00 PM EDT / 11:00 AM PDT

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    ABOUT OUR EXPERTS

    Cooperman

     

    		 Dan Cooperman is Lecturer in Law at Stanford Law School,
    where he teaches a new course entitled, “The Role of the Modern General
    Counsel”.  He is Of Counsel at Bingham McCutchen’s Silicon Valley Office,
    a strategic advisor to Institutional Venture Partners, a member of the Advisory
    Board of Best Lawyers and the editorial advisory board of California Lawyer
    magazine, and serves on the Advisory Council for the Law, Science and
    Technology Program at Stanford Law School. He is the immediate past president
    of the Association of General Counsel and has served on the board of several
    trade associations in the software industry. Mr. Cooperman stepped down as
    Apple’s General Counsel in November 2009, reporting to Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs,
    he was responsible for all aspects of Apple’s legal department. Prior to Apple,
    Mr. Cooperman was Oracle’s General Counsel for nearly 11 years    .

    MacEwen

     

    		 Bruce MacEwen is a lawyer and
    consultant to law firms on strategic and economic issues. He
    founded and is Editor-in-Chief of Adam Smith, Esq., which
    generates on average over 350,000 page views per month,
    providing insights on the business of large, sophisticated law
    firms. Since the site’s launch in late 2003, over 1,000 articles
    have appeared on Adam Smith, Esq. covering such topics as
    strategy, leadership, globalization, M&A, finance, compensation,
    cultural considerations, and partnership structures. Previously,
    Mr. MacEwen practiced securities law in-house for nearly 10
    years at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter (now Morgan Stanley Smith
    Barney), and practiced litigation and corporate law with Shea &
    Gould and with Breed, Abbott & Morgan in New York.
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