Building Strategic Partnerships: Maximizing Relationships with Outside Counsel (May 15)
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In-house counsel play a pivotal role in navigating legal landscapes, managing risks, and ensuring the success of their organizations. Yet, to truly excel in their roles, they recognize the importance of establishing robust partnerships beyond mere fee structures with their outside counsel. Join us for an insightful discussion as we delve into the strategies, tools, and best practices necessary to transform your relationships with outside counsel into strategic alliances that drive value and innovation for your organization.
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Paul Liu
General Counsel
PacketFabric
Paul is an award-winning builder of legal teams and functions with over 15 years of experience in managing legal functions, including commercial contracts, litigation, employment law, compliance, and intellectual property.
He has been described by his colleagues as “‘an excellent thinker, and most importantly, he gets things done.’” (Modern Counsel). He has been recognized in leading industry publications such Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) as one of “The World’s Leading IP Strategists.”
Paul is General Counsel at PacketFabric, a global telecommunications software company. At PacketFabric, he leads a team of five professionals and oversee the company’s legal department, including commercial contracts, litigation, employment law, legal compliance, and intellectual property.
Paul was previously Deputy General Counsel and Global Head of Intellectual Property at TuSimple. At TuSimple, he built teams in the US and abroad and harmonized the company’s processes and strategies with global best practices. This has resulted in, among other accomplishments, more than doubling the average patent strength/quality (measured by LexisNexis’s Competitive Impact metric), resulting in over 70% of the US-originated patent assets to be rated within the Global Top 10% of patent families according to LexisNexis while growing the patent portfolio size by over 400% to achieve the largest and most impactful home-grown patent portfolio held by any trucking-focused autonomous vehicle company.
He also built various compliance programs, policies, and training in areas such as export control and open source, abating risks such as fines and negative treatment from external parties and regulators. Additionally, he oversees company agreements throughout the contract life cycle, such as by implementing software, playbooks, and processes that preserve millions of dollars of enterprise value.
The functions that he has built created value to better leveraged the company to achieve positive outcomes in strategic alliances, investor presentations, and earnings calls.
