A post on visual analytics drove me to imagine uses of it in legal departments (See my post of Feb. 10, 2010: a future of software that helps in-house counsel make decisions on data.). More generally, the reports software produces make or break them in terms of value delivered, especially…
Many groups cater to the operational and administrative interests of in-house lawyers and their departmental colleagues. This first cut at a compilation of those groups includes a dozen that exist or may exist (and several metaposts that I have linked). Please let me know of others. Contracts. For example, the…
Out of 30 contract terms most frequently negotiated, the top five in 2008 were (1) limitations of liability, (2) indemnification, (3) “price/charge/price changes,” (4) intellectual property, and (5) confidential information/data protection. These results come from a survey conducted by the International Association for Contract & Commercial Management (IACCM) that collected…
Mikk Putk, an energetic Estonian from Tallinn , has assembled all these blogs. He has created an impressive online footprint while he works at a patent agency, NotaBene. Putk’s IP Blogs Search Engine is available on the main page of IPNetwork. For more information, here is a succinct quote from…
“Evidence-based management (EB Mgt.) is the systematic use of the best available evidence to improve management practice.” In the management and organization sciences, say the authors of an article in Acad. Mgt. Perspectives, Vol. 23, Nov. 2009 at 5, scant evidence exists, at least from their thorough and rigorous review…
I urge members of LinkedIn to join my group, Law Department Management. We have more than 250 members and welcome everyone. Foraging more widely on LinkedIn, I have found at least 35 groups for lawyers. Not in-house counsel exclusively, but lawyers or support functions for lawyers. In the aggregate, tens…
One of the selling points for matter management systems is that astute managers can comb through the data collected and spot issues before they boil over (See my post of March 19, 2009: matter management system data needs analysis.). Unfortunately, human nature and our mental machinery work against that promise.…
A recent book provided ample grist for this blog mill. David Galbenski’s Unbound: How Entrepreneurship is Dramatically Transforming Legal Services Today (2009) elicited eight posts (See my post of Oct. 12, 2009: lawyers not admitted in the US as GCs of US companies; Oct. 12, 2009: finance staff do not…
The International In-house Counsel Journal, established in 2007, publishes papers written exclusively by in-house counsel from around the world covering major areas of interest. Its website says “The papers are peer reviewed by an international editorial board of leading in-house counsel from across the world, each with an expertise within…
At the end of a train of governance documents for legal departments such as mission statements, corporate policies, and contract templates, an article in Int’l In-House Counsel J., Vol 2, Summer 2009 at 1299, closes with the ambulance: “risk management checklists.” The author proceeds to explain each of the terms,…