An open question has been whether the time of participation in a benchmark metrics survey correlates to statistically different samples. Put differently, do law departments that submit data early in the collection period differ materially on key benchmarks from departments that submit their data months later, in the final stages…
You and you law department will benefit from taking part in the 2012 General Counsel Metrics benchmark survey. We are on our way to over 1,000 participating law departments, which gives tremendous reliability and specificity to the metrics. Plus, GC Metrics offers compensation data – more than 1,000 lawyers…
A group of 600 HR managers, academics, and advisers “are drafting guidelines for standardizing measures of workforce diversity, turnover, job training, and the like.” Not only is this massive initiative trying to bring about consistent definitions and data collection methods, it is also trying to outline how companies should report…
In Brazil, half of all businesses are limited liability companies while 45 percent are individual proprietorships. Less than one percent are corporations and of these only about 100 are large companies listed on the Brazilian Stock Exchange. This information comes from Canadian Corporate Counsel Assoc. Mag. (Autumn 2010) at 37. …
“Over the past two decades Spanish companies in sectors where products and services can be traded internationally raised their productivity five times more than their counterparts in purely domestic sectors.” That finding in Fortune, July 23, 2012 at 16, suggests another reason why larger companies enjoy falling levels of total…
As if 25 benchmarks by industry, revenue, and number of lawyers from nearly 500 law departments were not enough, Release 2.0 sent last week offered more. It included an invitation to a free webinar to ask questions about the benchmarks, five trade groups with industry reports, an analysis of matter…
The 2012 General Counsel Metrics benchmark survey has staffing and spending data so far from more than 80 law departments at hospital and health systems. A friend of mine told me that the “Joint Commission” that accredits U.S. hospitals recognized 5,754 of them in early 2012. Their total expenses were…
A point made at the InsideCounsel SuperConference by Kraig Washburn, the General Counsel of Flexera, is sound. He includes in his corporate headcount one or two contract lawyers who have been working for him for a long time. They do not get benefits, it is true, but it gives a…
The larger the business the more global it and its legal department become and thus the greater its need for local in-house counsel. A commenter on my article about benchmarks and matter-management software wrote, as if it were self-evident, that “global law is more expensive than domestic for a ton…
A fascinating article concerns an analysis of causes of action in some 2,500 civil cases filed in Federal courts filed between 2000 and 2008. The research was by Christina Boyd, et al, in “Building a Taxonomy of Litigation: Clusters of Causes of Action in Federal Complaints”, which is available electronically. …