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COVID-19 and Managing Law Department Members
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Managing talent during Covid — matter management status updates
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Utilizing the Human Resources Department for Managing Talent
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COVID19 and Talent: Informal emails periodically from the General Counsel
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Confidential, anonymous comment box
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COVID19 and Management — Quick Surveys of Department Members
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COVID-19 and Management Techniques for GCs — drop-in calls
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COVID-19 Techniques — Status Reports
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Covid-19: Management Techniques (one-on-ones)
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Plots with All CAPITAL LETTER axis labels, locations at the left and top and no title
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Plot with useless grid lines, colors without significance, and curious sort order of bars
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Reproducible research regarding legal management surveys – lessons from pharma
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Weighting survey responses so that the findings better represent underlying demographics
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Nything but trivial – the crucial ubiquity of “N = “ in survey findings
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Choices on plots that involve flipping axes, using points instead of bars, and axis labels for intervals
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Attractive spacing and width of bars on plots; informative labels
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Superfluous elements – chart junk – but two useful additions
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Excessive use of colors in a plot; sorting an axis
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Multiple and superfluous typography used on a plot
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Redundant display of data on plots
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Lawyer Resistance to Seeking Feedback from Their Clients
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Show foreign and domestic participants by level (Feb 23, 2015)
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The Importance of Confidentiality in Law Department Client Surveys
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Create a graphic that shows how many participants there were by each level
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Law Department Client Satisfaction
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General Counsel of Fortune 500 companies, company revenue and law school rank
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A Shepard’s diagram of the three legal services companies can enlist
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Leveling off of law school rank and number of general counsel of Fortune 500 companies
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Law schools and their graduates who are Fortune 500 GCs, adjusted for enrollment of law school
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Sure, spreadsheet analyses can mislead, but consider the benefits
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To plot cities of law schools or law firms, you need longitude and latitude values
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A choropleth showing the states whose law schools produced Fortune 500 GCs
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Fortune 500 general counsel and the ranking of their law school
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Which law schools have graduated the most Fortune 500 general counsel?
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Governments are the best sources of data
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One of the Ten Commandments of programmers working with data: record each change you make!
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Subsetting and aggregating: two fundamental programming steps for analysts of data
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Ideologies trump arguments based on data
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A choropleth of state regulatory burdens on small businesses: lawyers keep busy!
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Leading M&A firms and differences in the average size of the deals they have recently worked on
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One way a law department might narrow down the selection of M&A counsel
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If we only had a proxy for the value of a blog post …
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Baumol’s cost disease and why law departments keep paying higher and higher hourly rates
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Sub-topics of blogs after substantive area focus
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Dispersion of branch offices and number of blogs supported by U.S. law firms
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Practice area topics of law firm blogs
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Law firms without blogs and whether number of lawyers might be causal
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Law firms, their blogs, and marketing to corporate legal departments
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Beyond ranking law departments on a metric: show differences from average or show scaling
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Give some thought to how you label the text on an axis: data on large law firms
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What is the basis for Bottomline Technologies claim of “3X”?
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Understanding the underlying metrics: an example from search engine results
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Four years of data from US law departments on total legal spending as a percentage of revenue
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The legal industry loses when legal management data stays guarded and proprietary
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If your external spend is high, consider actions other than outside counsel management
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Why it’s almost certainly wrong to claim that law firm costs “are rising exponentially”
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For lawyers, the importance of “using data to make decisions”
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Graphics and the choice of axis lines
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Poisson analysis can tell us how much data to review to be confident in our findings
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Web-scraping for data and the power of Application Program Interfaces (APIs)
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Benchmarks probably correlate to entropy measures, which show industry concentration
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Create multiple plots to avoid over-plotting of points
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Approximately equal numbers of small, medium and large firms retained by departments?
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What topological maps of benchmark data might tell managers of law departments
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Reproducible research as an aspirational goal for legal metrics
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The “industry” of a company and a way to create an index of diversification with entropy measurements
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Currency conversion and some methodology decisions for benchmark studies
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The data perfection syndrome that may hobble some general counsel
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Might availability of benchmark metrics cause a “race to the top”?
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A graph, with nodes and edges, that conveys much about a law department’s use of outside counsel
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You can get Release 4.0 of the GC Metrics benchmark survey: more than 1,100 participants
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A metric proxy for the value of a patent – in how many countries is the patent registered
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US legal system costs for liabilities are higher than those of the Eurozone by fifty percent
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Law department benchmarks are not law department opinions counted up
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Release 1.0 sent to 196 law departments; get a sample if you write me
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The arrival of text mining and its implications for tracking ideas important to law department management
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Indirect sources of performance metrics that law departments have not tapped
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Three uncommon methods to visualize law department data: box plots, mosaic plots and heat maps
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An inverse relationship between the amount of litigation and the amount of regulation
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Here come the conglomerates, and there go the easy benchmark comparisons
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Graphics to explain data need to be both effective and attractive: introducing icon graphs
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The dearth of Japanese participants in the GC Metrics benchmark survey may diminish
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Free Webinar: Insights from the 2012 General Counsel Metrics Benchmark Survey (Release 5)
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$800 an hour rates and a shift noted toward larger and larger law firms
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Final Release of 2012 had 1,001 participants; why don’t you take the 2013 survey!
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Details to obtain free (or low cost) compensation report for law department administrators
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A correlation between the size of city where a law department has much of its staff and its performance metrics
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Online recording (YouTube) about “lawyers per billion of revenue” as a benchmark metric
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YouTube video on total legal spending as a percentage of revenue
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Just shy of 1,000 law departments in Release 4.0 of GC Metrics’ benchmark study
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You can’t take medians and add, subtract, or divide them
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Does data of participation in a benchmark survey reflect significantly different metrics?
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Finding of approximately one-third for GC compensation of salary, bonus, and long-term incentives – but the data is not representative
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Some findings regarding equity awards granted in-house lawyers
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Speculation that comp data of close to 2,000 U.S. GC’s a year are disclosed in annual reports
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Beyond predicting compensation with linear regression: find out the accuracy of the prediction and how close the data fit a line
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Data on penetration of specialized software into US legal departments
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Join Release 3.0 going out this week – 811 participants in the General Counsel Metrics benchmark study!
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A prediction if there come to be many virtual law firms that offer all their services at a fixed cost, such as $150 an hour
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Thoughts on cost differentials based on average hourly rates for litigation associates in 2011
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The methodology of a survey tells you how much you can rely on the data
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How you can predict compensation when you know something about a lawyer, and have lots of similar data from other lawyers
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Some figures on the average budgets of IP departments, and questions
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Nope, a call from a celebrity divorce lawyer isn’t a GC’s worst nightmare
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If HR metrics can be standardized and reported, won’t someone try to do the same for legal metrics?
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An ad of a vendor makes a claim that is hard to credit
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Notaries in Europe and their effects on law department staffing and spending
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Rees Morrison’s Morsels #169: in brevia-blogia veritas
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Size and number of law departments outside the U.S. — Brazil
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Custom software development compared to licensed software
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Some findings about the costs of patent troll litigation
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Software to help in-house lawyers who deal with import/export regulations
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LegalBase picked as a global legal outsourcing 100 rising star
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Projections regarding the number of law departments in countries need to bear in mind local mindsets
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Global competitors tend to be larger than domestic-only companies and thus legally more fit
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Survey respondents like self-service drafting of agreements but most law departments lack the tools
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New content in Release 2.0 of the General Counsel Metrics benchmark study, not to mention 483 participating law departments
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Part LXX in my series of collected metaposts embedded in other posts
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The shape of things to come: in-house lawyers around the world, where revenue comes from
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Debunking some management tools general counsel might consider using
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Evidence-based speculation on the number of health systems that have an in-house legal department
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A general formula based on a recent salary survey to let you see how your pay stands against others who practice in-house
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Customer relationship management as a feeder system, and more, for a law department
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Count full-time, long-serving contract lawyers as employed lawyers for purposes of headcount metrics
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Various ways to get lost with law-department process maps
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Criticisms of scenario planning as undertaken by law departments
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Let the lawyers who report to you deliver good news; you deliver bad news
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Downsides of focus groups as undertaken by law departments
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Five impediments to delegation
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Get the budget right from outside counsel, particularly if you are going to charge back the costs to a business unit or function
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To improve the invoicing process, consider “workload reports” and “progress reports”
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An example of how law departments can encourage their firms to innovate with software, process improvement, and knowledge management
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Global dispersion brings increased legal complexity, but higher legal costs?
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Offer video-game software to help train clients in preventive law and compliance
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Standards and audits for e-discovery vendors as complied with by doeLEGAL
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An expedited RFP process from Kaplan Inc.’s legal department
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Steps taken by Telstra to protect the attorney-client privilege after an appellate court questioned the privilege
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Law-firm invoices are considered tax documents in the European Union
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We interview prospective hires poorly, but we don’t recognize our ineptitude
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Spectral clustering of ten thousand causes of action and some management implications for the future
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Some managerial consequences of a large and widely-distributed legal department
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Minimum compensation levels set for in-house Brazilian lawyers
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Metrics on the Korean legal market and some extrapolations from them
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Excellent data from Australia’s largest state on government and corporate lawyers
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An exalted vision of the role of the Renaissance General Counsel
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A convention to identify and show extreme values in a set of data using a box-and-whisker plot
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Trumpet fanfare! Announcing my new-look blog, and some comments on posts by category
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Reverse mentoring whereby less experienced lawyers tutor more experienced lawyers
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Several advantages when you have your in-house lawyers present to the rest of the legal team
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Statistics compilation débuts in Release 2.0 of GC Metrics benchmarks, along with data 500+ companies – why don’t you join in?
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Obiter dicta on costs of patent litigation and the extravagance of discovery
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A methodology, albeit with much data missing, to estimate judgments paid by corporations in the United States
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A small attempt to stimulate collective thinking on law department operations
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A benchmark metric worth fighting for: lawyers per army combatants
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Reflections prompted by publicity regarding the ACC’s 2011 Census Report
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Wisdom about law departments and metrics from a GC serving as an interim CEO
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If there are something like 80,000 publicly traded companies in the world, how many privately held companies with law departments might there be?
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Rates and cost per hour comparisons between inside lawyers and lawyers at law firms in the United States
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Two “proven” profitability techniques of law firms that law departments should refuse
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Five categories for how your law firms might be rating you
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Somewhat misleading data about law departments and e-billing: leading and laggard countries
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Rees Morrison’s Morsels #168: the long and the short of it (in brevia veritas)
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Budget-busting when a company pays the defense costs of a director or officer
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Metrics on prevalence among law departments of refusal to pay for newbies out of law school
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Introverts compared to extroverts — general counsel as leaders and their personality styles
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An annual strategic planning process that involves a law department’s staff
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State-owned enterprises that have law departments probably differ from private-enterprises in their benchmark metrics
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Don’t bother with formal acknowledgements by law firms that you have retained them
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Web-based offering that prepares litigation decision trees
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Another software package to track diverse attorneys who work on your adversarial matters
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More progress toward the empirical turn for law department management
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Contract drafting and review tool made available by the Association of Corporate Counsel
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A clever and funny send-up of law departments and their reviews of marketing material
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Industry is the dominant basis for insights from staffing and spending benchmarks
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Four reasons why the oft-predicted transformation of the legal industry post-2008 has not materialized
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Columbia Law School and its successful effort to place graduates in legal departments
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The cost per hour of meetings in law departments, and related comments
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A method that would shed light on the relative cost of lawyers across different countries
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Little known about relationship between publicly disclosed settlements and those that are confidential
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Specialized survey on document management for intellectual property
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Lawyers posted overseas and then repatriated may have high rates of turnover
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First release of the General Counsel Metrics benchmark survey with 332 participating companies
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Four approaches to forecast the amount a law department will spend in a given month
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The start of a network for procurement professionals who are interested in legal department spending
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The impressive activities in Asia of the In-House Community
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Three clusters of software for matter management according to ground-breaking report
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An example of a secondment to be a company’s corporate secretary
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When profit margins of big firms are five times those of big companies, why not try to reduce fees a smidgeon?
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Compensation of in-house attorneys in Brazil, Dubai, and the United States – a need to adjust for income tax levels
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Rees Morrison’s Morsels #167: the long and the short of it (in brevia veritas)
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Part LXIX in my series of collected metaposts embedded in other posts
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An initiative underway to resolve e-commerce disputes online without someone from the company being involved
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Four surveys with data-based findings regarding alternative dispute resolution
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Tension between quarterly or semi-annual budgets and the requirement of Finance for an annual budget
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Activity budgets compared to cost budgets, and the final touch to both
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Pay data obtained mostly from large law departments makes lawyers in smaller departments feel bad
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A secular trend toward less regulation as governments try to increase national competitiveness
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A method to quantify co-location of in-house lawyers, and thus their value to the company
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Imitation, under-publicized, yet more likely to succeed than innovation
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Less or different work ahead for legal departments when companies can buy rights to use a patent on an exchange
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External spend per lawyer varies by matter management system: $10,000 per week processed per lawyer
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Some data about the cost of a matter management system
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Preliminary compensation data on general counsel in smaller law departments
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On the order of 100,000 in-house lawyers in the United States?
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According to an innovative report, three clusters of matter management systems (MMS), by average number of lawyers
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The broadest measure of legal-related spending by corporations – one-third for each portion?
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Country-based and language-specific matter management systems
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Innovative report combines data on matter management systems (MMS) with benchmark metrics
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Early findings on the relative frequency of matter management and contract management software
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Six observations gleaned from patent activity by a company that rarely seeks patents
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Two ideas to spur full discussions at a meeting
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General counsel who leave and take up consulting to law departments, other in-house lawyers, and even non-lawyers
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It would benefit in-house attorneys to keep a learning log and steadily improve and enrich it
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Four uncommon ways to harvest ideas for management improvements
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Six techniques to unleash your creativity
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Neuroscience will help in-house counsel think more effectively
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Metrics plus further thoughts on the substitution of an in-house lawyer for outside counsel
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Widening roles of corporate counsel over five years, according to Deloitte survey
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Try a de Finetti game on your law firm that estimates odds of success for a lawsuit
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References to law departments of government agencies and a surmise on their size
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A controversial recommendation by a consultant to rotate business unit generalists periodically
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Three ways survey respondents believe their legal department demonstrates value
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U.S. general counsel rank higher in their company than do their non-U.S. counterparts
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Canned reports, dashboards, and data analytics – different levels of insight
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As an alternative to secondment from a law firm, consider providers of in-house counsel on an as-needed basis
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An update on firms that invest in lawsuits of companies
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Five methods whereby external counsel deliver their advice, with email surging in popularity during the past five years
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Private equity investments in companies that sell to law departments
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A clamor over the putative trend toward contract attorneys and outsourcing, but evidence from reliable data is absent
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Marketing review and ad claims – use of a claims matrix
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The corporate security function under the general counsel of AmerisourceBergen
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Common reasons for people leaving a law department
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Languages spoken by lawyers in a legal department: three levels of proficiency
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The positive side of law firm bills as marketing tools
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Braggadocio if law departments hold themselves out as gifted, strategists, beacons of integrity, and patron saints of corporate social responsibility
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Two unusual responsibilities of Ford’s General Counsel
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To clarify two contributions of outside counsel: specialized expertise vs. assistance with complexity
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A third of your time on e-mail, and more ideas to be effective during that time
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Higher pay, poorer performance for two years, and less job stability for external hires
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Preferred management levers redirect behavior, they don’t try to reform culture
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Rees Morrison’s Morsels #166: the long and the short of it
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Twitter followers of this blog, or me, and changes in RSS patterns
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Small companies can have very odd profiles of lawyers per billion or lawyers per thousand employees
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If one of your lawyers leaves to take a general counsel post, are there smiles or bile?
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Your search firm as a source of feedback for a new general counsel
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The reverse of musical chairs when you promote from within the department
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Is there something unique about legal departments not possessed by other support functions?
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Reactions to a very high standard set for what constitutes a “successful law department”
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Additional thoughts about the five practice areas with the highest total cash compensation
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Again, not surprising that even large legal departments don’t segregate and track e-discovery costs
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As newly-arriving general counsel, should you bring along your former assistant (no) or use you predecessor’s (probably)?
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An overlooked obstacle in legal departments to effective control of law firm fees – split motivation by the lawyers who manage them
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Seven semi-advanced math concepts that count for general counsel
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Over time, the geographic distribution of in-house lawyers will match the sources of revenue of global companies
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Some more tips for the e-mail burdened corporate lawyer
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Five ways to organize how we might organize our thinking about law department management
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Five highest paid practice areas, according to 2011 compensation study, and their fully loaded cost
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Distributions of data: Gaussian, power-law, exponential, Pareto, Poisson, and barbell
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Anecdotes and desires don’t equal empirical data, as proved by all the talk about alternative fee arrangements, yet inadequate studies
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What factors determine whether an in-house lawyer gets a salary increase? Survey findings
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A general counsel’s budget means little if the company wages war on all fronts, including litigation onslaughts
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Views on obstacles to investment in legal technology from French in-house counsel
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Legal departments as nonlinear, complex systems
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After the third e-mail on a given topic, pick up the phone or visit and talk
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Advantages and disadvantages of staff counsel
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No! Don’t think that the “legal team should be an active participant in all critical corporate decisions”
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Why aren’t IP lawyers ever more ascendant in legal departments?
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Legal departments, among other corporate functions in Europe, don’t get enough CEO guidance on focus
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Three broad eras asserted to differ in the influence of general counsel, but no evidence
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“Legal metrics that matter with defense counsel”
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A way to quantify industry dynamism so that benchmark metrics have more context
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Things that do not work to promote knowledge management in legal departments
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Nine benefits to the use of specialized legal software ranked by French in-house counsel
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A method to predict the likelihood of patent disputes
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Predictive analytics will extend from claims management to litigation management
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How might we determine whether managerial nous has improved in legal departments during the past two decades or so?
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Eleven software systems used by legal departments for patent and trademark docketing
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Speculations on metrics revealed by a survey on e-discovery and law departments
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All numbers used by managers of in-house counsel are inexact
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Management experiments that a general counsel might try
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Are the key benchmark metrics of early participants in a survey materially different than those of later participants?
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2012 GC Metrics benchmark survey exceeds 100 participants early on – we encourage you to take part
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When we say some number of things equals another, we often glide over differences
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Two simple ways to increase your creativity – vary what you learn and learn in various places
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Value delivered by law firms: the perspectives of consequentialism and deontology
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Careful reading, how in-house lawyers prefer to take in information, can’t be sped up
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General counsel should thoughtfully balance plumbing and poetry
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With so many banks in the U.S. by the late 19th century, surely there were some law departments?
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Getting to the core of the Central Limit Theorem
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If commercial law falls short of moral acceptability, what a tension that creates for in-house counsel!
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Self-quantifying, which entails measuring your personal indicators, could increase productivity
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A link between more specialists in larger departments, more innovation, and legal cost control
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When we say some number of things equals another, we often glide over differences
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The limits of metrics in law department management – but save the baby
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How many corporate law departments are there in the United States, based on publicly-traded companies compared to privately held
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If you manage outside counsel and act like a jerk, how likely is it that your law firm will decide not to represent you?
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The attractions of an in-house legal job compared to private practice, according to 820 Canadian lawyers
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How Canadian in-house lawyers describe their work day
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In the UK, fixed fees for all legal services, for small companies
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Average number of hours worked per week by Canadian in-house lawyers: 47 – roughly 1,800 chargeable hours a year
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Predominance of small law departments among Canadian companies
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Non-compete constraints on in-house lawyers who move to a competitor’s law department
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Most law departments, being small, have few or no diversity initiatives, since only the largest departments report them
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French legal departments are a much more lawyer-heavy than U.S. legal departments
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Rees Morrison’s Morsels #165: the long and the short of it
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Ten dollars on law firms for every dollar spent externally other than on law firms
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Fixed-fee agreements should be matched by the law firm’s rights to influence business practices
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Clichéd and monotonous examples when people cite certain law department management practices
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Two restrictive definitions of the term “direct report”
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Lawyers per billion dollars of French law departments is higher than for U.S. departments
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Diagrams, flow charts, sketches to depict and clarify complex agreements
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Psychology compared to cognitive science, with a nod to sociology and evolutionary development of the human brain
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Lower total legal spending as a percentage of revenue for French legal departments compared to U.S. departments
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The dead hand of path dependence lies on all law departments
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Talents compared to skills of in-house lawyers
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It is wrong for a law department to negotiate a fixed fee, but pay actuals aif they are less
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Two points on whether innovation flourishes more in larger or smaller law departments
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Ten functional areas overseen by general counsel or other executive
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The productivity of in-house counsel
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Approximately one out of four law departments reported use of e-billing software in a survey
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The larger the department, the fewer women report to the general counsel
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Contracts for outsourced services were infrequent as found by a recent survey
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To avoid becoming a legal malpractice plaintiff – five steps, but three are implausible
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Cultivate and appreciate your Brodmann area 10, especially if you are churlish
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Survey data from French companies about responsibilities and reporting of heads of legal
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Collective action by groups of legal departments – potential large but realization small
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As law departments spread offices around the globe, the patchwork of attorney-client privilege worsens management concerns [metapost attorney-client privilege II 13]
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Part LXIII in my series of collected metaposts embedded
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Link documents to emails, blog and wiki posts, instant messaging
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ROI, risk avoided, and value delivered always depend on assumptions, which are probabilistic and problematic
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How far we are from gauging relative ROI of software that is common among legal departments
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Clearer terminology for software and when law departments modify it
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More often than not, the legal department owns contract management for both sales and purchase contracts
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Data on time tracking by legal departments in recent survey
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Perceptions by law departments of law firms’ obstacles to AFAs; gaps between rankings
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Turn to a law firm to analyze your spending data and perhaps combine it with similar data from other companies
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As a software strategy, all-in-one compared to best-in-breed (and a word on platforms)
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Kudos to a law firm that re-engineered processes and software to meet the demands of a client
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Morrison on Metrics: the mathematics of permutations
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Wormhole as Best in Show at LegalTechNY?
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This blog, seven years old today!
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The largest law departments among U.S. companies in the Fortune 500
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Survey data about numbers of law firms retained and firms per lawyer
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A matter management system vendor with 400 law departments – Legal Suite
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Most of the internal budget for a legal department is compensation and benefits
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On to 1,000 marches the 2012 GC Metrics benchmark survey! Please join!
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Accommodation theory sounds impressive but does it inform the mundane world of law departments and their operations?
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Outside counsel on a retainer fee for colleges and universities without a legal department
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Terminology about what you can license: applications, programs, software packages, solutions, and systems – but no clear distinctions among the terms
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An unexpected prevalence of contract management systems
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Data on average contract review times by legal departments, but hard to draw a conclusion from it
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Who wins the battle of the paper; a quarter of all contracts get no review by an in-house lawyer
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Rees Morrison’s Morsels #165: the long and the short of it
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Government regulations can help law departments, too!
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Curious lack of interest in e-billing software, according to recent survey
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Behind the proliferation of awards to law departments – cherchez la buck
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“Most Innovative Technology in a Corporate Law Department” – a choice of legal hold software?
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Survey data regarding the distribution of in-house lawyers by practice area
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Rolling averages as a way to show more accurately the current trend
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SharePoint and offerings built around it were plentiful at LegalTechNY
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Matter management dominates at LegalTech NY for in-house lawyers, and a few consultants appeared
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From where do law departments hire
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If your department creates specialized software, two reasons to relinquish it – cost and continuous improvementIf your department creates specialized software, two reasons to relinquish it – cost and continuous improvement
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Data regarding the number of general counsel who also hold the corporate secretary title
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Learn 39 contract management software packages when you let me know the one your department uses
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Law Department Management group on LinkedIn now has more than 1,000 members!
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Metrics about heads of law department operations, IS and finance
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Management concepts that are important to those who lead in law departments (Part 4 of a series)
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Collected thoughts on scatter-grams
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A catchy spectrum to describe general counsel in terms of willingness to change operational aspects
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Chief Legal Officer title compared to General Counsel title
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Odd gaps between average billing rates of U.S. litigation associates and partners
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U.S. litigation firms charged a blended rate of $385 an hour, according to TyMetrix research
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Transparency Labs and its guidance on how to make contracts more understandable
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Rees Morrison’s Morsels #164: the long and the short of it
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No, average costs in the U.S. for an in-house lawyer are not $125 an hour; think at least 50 percent higher
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Chipsters, a group for women lawyers who are IP chief counsel
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Five suggestions related to decision-making
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After noting 15 direct reports to the general counsel of AIG
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As a general counsel, administering compared to managing or leading a law department
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If law firms are chronically over-staffed, why aren’t they more amenable to AFAs?
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A record 829 law departments in the Fifth Release of GC Metrics’ benchmark survey – and you can get it
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