State percentages as natural frequencies rather than percentages or decimals (May 5, 2011) Five sources within your company of people who can help you with statistical analyses (June 16, 2011) Seasonality of invoices from law firms (July 8, 2011) The pros and (more) cons of a law department that relies…
Not one to eat, shoot and leave, I wish to leave my imprint on law department management in the full regalia of grammatical grace. Toward that end, my powerful search software ferreted out these bibelot: Plural of general counsel (See my post of March 22, 2006: proper plural of “general…
A portent of the future: apps on tablet computers for in-house lawyers, supported by SAP and Tata Consulting (Oct. 10, 2011) Two big players and the advent of tablets and apps for law departments. Sumptuary laws in 14th century Florence and their echoes in outside counsel guidelines on disbursements (Oct.…
More law department sales. Vendors, let me know of your successes. I still hope to announce license arrangements. So, to prime the pump, note that LexisNexis CounselLink was chosen by Fannie Mae and Hawaiian Electric, according to Met. Corp. Counsel, Nov. 2011 at 41. Arguments by analogy are fallacies. “Almost…
Bet the company lit (See my post of Oct. 27, 2011: bet-the-company with 8 references.). Fulbright litigation survey (See my post of Nov. 26, 2011: F&J litigation survey with 21 references.). Leadership II (See my post of Oct. 19, 2011: leadership with 10 references.). Legal research online by law firms…
Some things to do differently on the second iteration of a fixed-fee arrangement (Sept. 5, 2011) Four recommendations for what to do differently to improve the second process and outcome. Social-choice theory, Arrow’s impossibility theorem, and group decision-making (Sept. 5, 2011) Kenneth Arrow laid down five elementary axioms that any…
Many blogs and websites have directed readers here and I have thank over a hundred of them in previous posts (See my post of Nov. 15, 2009: history of this series; Jan. 4, 2010: seventh set; May 28, 2010: eighth set; and Jan. 18, 2011: ninth set of referral sites.).…
QR (Quick Response) codes are everywhere these days. A QR code (in effect a barcode for mobile phones) will link to a piece of text, a phone number, an SMS message or URL. Law department lawyers will increasingly see them in publications. For vendors and law firms the URL is…
Why is “bet the company litigation” (aka “bet-the-company litigation”) consistently among the most popular search terms for those who arrive at my blog? On October 26th I looked on SiteMeter under Referring Search Words Ranked by Visits. Number one (13 searches) was the unhyphenated version and number seven (8 searches)…
Complexity III (See my post of Sept. 21, 2011: complexity with 17 references.). Cottage industry III (See my post of Sept. 22, 2011: cottage industry with 9 references.). Hotlines (See my post of Sept. 21, 2011: hotlines with 6 references.). Matter management system benefits (See my post of Sept. 26,…