Drawing on data from 109 legal departments in France, consultant Helene Trink of Profit & Law reports that lawyers as a percentage of total legal staff is much higher than in American law departments. Her median figure: 77% of the total legal staff are lawyers (1st quartile 63% and third…
In her most recent benchmark report, Helene Trink, head of the French consultancy Profit & Law, published 2010 data on 75 law departments in France and their lawyer headcount. At the median, the number of lawyers per billion Euros of revenue was 8.5. If we take the Euro exchange rate…
Profit & Law, Helene Trink’s consultancy in France, recently published its survey report of 119 heads of legal (directeurs juridiques) in France. Of that group, 62 provided enough data to permit Trink to calculate their total legal budget, covering both internal and external costs, as a percentage of their 2010…
One of your law firms might volunteer to analyze the bills you have paid and bring to bear more talent than you have available. KMWorld, Feb. 2012, at 11, brought the possibility to mind as it describes how Byran Cave has a Practice Economics Group. The firm created the Group…
The more ideas and possible mixes and matches a law department manager has available to choose from, the more … We know intuitively that as the number of choices increase, the number of possible combinations of those choices increases even faster. The mathematics that makes explicit how those combinations increase…
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Not many law departments calculate rolling averages, such as for what they spend per month on outside counsel, but it is a useful tool to show up-to-the-month patterns in time-interval data. Rolling averages can show your progress since they convey recent trends rather than overall averages. I write about rolling…
A few days ago my online column appeared at InsideCounsel.com. It offers thoughts on scatter-plots (aka scatter-grams). They and their usual sidekick, trend lines, provide a compelling way to present a lot of data so that some message from the pattern comes across immediately. If you want to read the…
If general counsel understate the cost of an in-house attorney hour, perhaps by assuming a high number of chargeable hours a year or only including base salaries, they are mistaken. In the ABA J., Jan. 2012 at 26, for example, a general counsel of a huge real estate management firm…
The Fifth Release of the GC Metrics global benchmark survey will go this week to 829 participating law departments. That is a record increase of 24 from last year. There are now 27 industries detailed, with the addition of special analyses for airlines, automotive suppliers, medical devices, national labs, semiconductors,…