James E. Bartlett III, Senior Counsel–Export/Import at Northrop Grumman, compiles and edits the GC Ex/Im Daily Update. He writes in an introductory email that more than 3,000 people receive his update “every business day of every change to the ITAR, EAR, FTR, Customs, HTSUS, and OFAC regulations, plus related news…
Here is a guest post by Sarah Brown, host of Exterro’s blog, E-Discovery 360. “Ralph Losey, a partner at Jackson Lewis and an authority on e-discovery has created the Online Electronic Discovery Law program. Its 61 modules cover the topic well. Students get certified once they’ve proved their knowledge to…
A profile of Indra, a $3 billion IT services company headquartered in Spain, lays out broadly how its 50 lawyers are organized. Iberian Lawyer, July/Aug. 2010 at 27, describes one group as “Secretariat, supporting the Board’s needs and the regulatory, compliance and corporate governance aspects of being a Spanish listed…
A review in the NY Rev. of Books, Jan. 13, 2011 at 40, contrasts critical history and popular memory. Critical historians debunk common but mistaken images of what happened. George Washington never cut down the cherry tree; Soujourner Truth didn’t ask “A‘n’t I a woman?” and Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration was…
As I read through the latest supplement to Robert Haig’s Successful Partnering Between Inside and Outside Counsel (West) I marveled at the large number of articles cited in the various update chapters. True, some of them go back to 2006 and 2007, but if you want to find what has…
The hot-stove league of law department management – would that there were one! – could jaw forever about the All-Stars of concepts. Here I nominate a third group: accountability, competency, competition, expectations (perceptions), diminishing returns, experience curve, power, satisfaction, scope of responsibility, and trade-offs. I would add these to the…
It turns out that my speculations about org charts that convey much more information already has a working prototype (See my post of March 22, 2006: perk up org charts.). For IBM’s 400,000 employees software called SaNDVis “does this by showing a web of relationships around a search term to…
A website created by IBM researchers, Many Bills, analyzes the text of Congressional bills as they move through the legislative process. The site pools the work of other sites that collect and format federal legislation. If XML-type formats are used consistently, along the lines of the coding that must be…
Richard Koch and Greg Lockwood, Superconnect: Harnessing the power of networks and the strength of weak links (Norton 2010) frequently refers to certain kinds of networks as “small worlds.” Nothing to do with planetary size, the term describes a collection of “nodes” – groups that numbers of people belong to…
This post stands proudly at the front of a line of 6,000! Seventy months ago, on Feb. 20, 2005, the first post stood up and since then the procession has conga-lined its way to this milestone. A few thoughts occurred to me as I reflected on the outpouring and commemorated…