Does heightened employer‐friendly trade secrecy protection help or hinder innovation? By examining U.S. state‐level legal adoption of a doctrine allowing employers to curtail inventor mobility if the employee would “inevitably disclose” trade secrets, we investigate the impact of a shifting trade secrecy regime on individual‐level patenting outcomes. …Read More
Bob Conlin, President & CEO of NAVEX Global, talked about the strategic benefits of embracing a company-wide culture of ethics.…Read More
Ajay Raju, Chairman & CEO of the venerable Philadelphia law firm Dilworth Paxson, discusses his vision for innovative transformation in the legal industry with Mack Institute Executive Director Saikat Chaudhuri.…Read More
Though one-stop shops seem like an obvious business strategy, research finds that client-supplier relationships play a stronger role in value creation.…Read More
Fifteen years into her legal career, Kelly Brown could see that the legal landscape was experiencing changes that were accelerating the need to innovate and transforming law firms into more complex businesses. She wanted to place herself at the forefront of innovation in her field.…Read More
The U.S. legal industry, a nearly $300 billion industry and one of the most profitable in the world, is experiencing fundamental change that is accelerating the need for top law firms to innovate. Relatively flat market demand for the corporate legal services of top law firms has many firms focused on “stealing” market share from competitor law firms and trying to move further up market to preserve high profit margins.…Read More
