Maintaining the edge in today's rapidly changing business and legal environment is a significant challenge for businesses and the law firms that advise them.

Globalization, emerging markets, complex financial instruments and new technologies present both opportunities and challenges. These opportunities – creating global brands, investing with foreign partners, setting up operations overseas and building proprietary product lines – come with increased risk for fraud and deception, as well as financial, regulatory and legal exposure.

Further, the complexities of cultural, regulatory and work place environments can create their own set of problems, including employment-related litigation, internal theft and reputation-related issues.