What are the major questions we can’t answer, yet, about law department management?

The field of law department management is strewn with issues for which no answers are known. What are some of our Fermat’s Last Theorems?

 How can we uniformly measure and compare lawyers on productivity?

 What is the balance between minimizing legal risk and maximizing entrepreneurial effort?

 How can we quantitatively show risk avoided?

 Do any structural choices work best?

 What is a dependable measure of value provided by a law department?

 Is there a right formula for providing services inside and buying them outside?

 To what degree does technology improve a law department?