Wal-Mart to require outside law firms to have flextime policies – over-reaching? (Nov. 6, 2009) In light of Wal-Mart’s request that law firms it uses must offer flextime, thoughts on the impositions by a legal department on how its law firms should operate Evaluate firms on attributes, but also ask…
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Seventh set of bloggers I thank for having referred visitors to Law Department Management Blog
This post continues my series of thumbs up for other blogs and websites that have directed readers to Law Department Management Blog (See my post of Nov. 15, 2009: history of this series.). I have accumulated 13 more to acknowledge and thank. decentshred.wordpress.com/ (Shy Alter) gbltd.com/blog/ (Greenfield/Belser’s brandthinking) Geotrupes.com www.geotrupes.co.uk/…
More on rankings and honors for this blog — Wikio
Sorry, I can’t help myself. I am proud of this blog and pour so much time and attention into it I can’t pass by a metric regarding it (See my post of Dec. 13, 2009 #3: Technorati and two other rankings.). Wikio reports monthly on a small set of legal-related…
Ten best posts of October 2009 on LawDepartmentManagmentBlog
Ten thoughtful posts, with the underlined portion what you should click to read the entire post. I welcome thoughts on these posts. Online dispute resolution (the double-blind method) and benefits for legal departments (Oct. 20, 2009) A method not only to resolve amounts to be paid in settlements but also,…
A deep thanks to all of you who helped this blog be chosen as an ABA Journal Blawg 100
Every time I hear from one of you, every comment left here, every cite to a post on another blog, every new thing tried on this blog enthuses me and keeps me going. It’s been brewing almost five years and more than 5,000 posts. Yesterday I learned that from 2,600+…
Some recent firsts on or about this blog
If bloggers don’t tinker and take chances, their blog dries up and blows away. So I keep trying out new things, and welcome ideas for more (See my post of Feb. 20, 2009: first blook, metapost, and article on blog; Feb. 26, 2009: first poll, YouTube video; podcast, and use…
Beyond 5,000 posts, and a menagerie of metrics about my RSS feed readers
Readers who add me to their RSS feed are near and dear to me. One or two do a day and it cheers me up. “Now, there’s someone,” I say to myself, “who has a discriminating eye for blog quality!” During the first 11 days of November, FeedBurner reports that…
Sixth set of blogs that have referred visitors to Law Department Management Blog
This post continues my series of 53 thanks. I appreciate it when other blogs or websites cite one of my posts or include me on their blog roll. In the past three months I ran across another 17 (See my post of June 17, 2009: 14 blogs/websites that have directed…
5,000 posts (!), a million+ words (!!), and 55 months (!!!) on this blog
Huzzah!!!! This is my 5,000th post, just as I leave for a week’s vacation in London. During the 55 months since this blog began late in February 2005, an average of three posts a day have appeared. The total number of words amounts to a bit less than 1.1 million…
Help wanted on blog posts about records retention and legal department management
Send me some bloggable information! Become a guest author or an anonymous contributor! Despite nearly 5,000 posts, this blog doesn’t have much about the role of in-house counsel and corporate document retention practices. Widely scattered posts offer little about this topic, mostly because this blogger doesn’t encounter records policies and…