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The rapid evolution of software development and technology across industries has changed corporate legal functions — especially the shape and responsibilities of the in-house counsel. Areas requiring legal review have grown and increased in-house counsel responsibilities, but also offers the opportunity for Legal to have a more leveraged business impact.
One of the emerging domains the General Counsel must support is engineering and product development. Not only tasked with bringing efficiency into the legal organization, but many now also embed a “Product Counsel” within Engineering, IT, Product, and Design teams to help make crucial, risk-mitigating decisions that shape the strategic direction of the company’s product.
The Next Generation of In-House Counsel: Emerging Legal Responsibilities Across Product and Digital Transformation discusses:
Up to 90% of any piece of software is from open source, creating countless dependencies and areas of risk to manage. FOSSA is the most reliable automated policy engine for security management, license compliance, and code quality across the open source stack.
With FOSSA, engineering, security, and legal teams all get complete and continuous risk mitigation for the entire software supply chain, integrated into each of their existing workflows.
FOSSA enables organizations like Slack, Snapchat, Okta, Puppet, Epic Games, and UiPath to manage their open source at scale and drive continuous innovation.
