The columns I write for InsideCounsel every two weeks give me the opportunity to go deeper than my blog posts. I can sit back and think a bit, too, and go deeper. My posts that point to the columns to date now number 10. They began in May (See my…
My column for InsideCounsel explains absolute and normalized figures and why normalized figures so importantly contribute to benchmark studies. Click here to read the column. The columns draws on and goes beyond the following posts (See my post of May 1, 2005: normalize structural analysis of departments; May 28, 2005:…
Thirty months ago there were enough posts on statistical correlation for me to assemble them (See my post of Feb.13, 2008: correlations with 16 references.). Since then, many other posts have referred to possible correlations in the intricacies of legal department management (See my post of March 4, 2008: profit…
You still have time to learn from the most comprehensive benchmark study ever done, and at no cost. If you would like to see a mini-version of the report, write me from your corporate address. Or click on this link, put in your staff and spending numbers from the end…
NYU’s Law School Mag., Fall 2010 at 89, has a piece about the research of a Tax Policy Fellow regarding structured settlements. With a structured settlement, “a defendant agrees to resolve a personal-injury tort claim with periodic payments over time rather than with a lump sum.” Defendants enjoy tax subsidies…
A correlation exists, I am sure, between corporate R&D investments and legal investments. More patents mean more in-house patent lawyers or external patent counsel, larger annuity payments, more frequent licensing arrangements (See my post of Dec. 10, 2009: licensing fees cover cost of legal department), and heightened litigation. But what…
Law departments are everywhere, in every country, yet only some of their lawyers speak English, at least well enough to take an online survey. I looked back at the first 910 respondents to the General Counsel Benchmarks Survey to see what language they chose. Not surprisingly, in light of my…
A previous post collected my references here to linear increases, where one number rises in step with another number. As you add lawyers, your compensation paid rises linearly (See my post of July 25, 2010: 11 references to linear changes.). Other phenomenon, however, increase exponentially: as one number increases, another…
The General Counsel Metrics study, exceeding 600 legal departments around the world, has elevated fundamental management metrics to a new level. Far more global than Hildebrandt’s, more balanced by company size than Empsight’s, with much broader coverage than ALM’s, and not only larger than all three, the rapidly improving offering…
With posts here and there about the odds of an internal promotion to the top legal spot compared to a recruitment of a new person to that position, let’s pause to state the shaky reasons why recruitment happens more than it should. More accurately, it happens more than academic researchers…