More examples pulled together of legal departments pulling together (Sept. 8, 2010) Commends collective actions by legal departments and notes examples Deep down, law firm leaders may not want law departments to improve (Sept. 8, 2010) Some partners may harbor secret thoughts that the less effective a legal department is,…
Every post I write summons to mind earlier posts that touch on its topic. With 5,800 prior posts looking over my shoulder, I have to decide all the time what they are and whether to find and refer back to them, as in (See my post of May 16, 1952:…
A couple of weeks back I welcomed a law department blawg to the fold and now need to dust off the ceremony again (See my post of Aug. 22, 2010: In-House Rants.). Jon Olson, the top lawyer for Blackbaud, has been hosting his blog, General Counsel Diary, since May and…
My loyal readers don’t miss anything because they subscribe through one of many services that handle RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds. During the past week, Feedburner tells me that this blog averaged 871 feed subscribers and 148 of them visited. They viewed 4,311 posts and clicked through to 1,661. My…
Readers might want to know which of the posts on this blog offer the most value. I wish I knew! Meanwhile here are some methods to move toward an assessment of a post’s relative quality. Each month I look back two months and pick the posts that intrigued me the…
Tim Corcoran, who recently left Altman Weil to join HubbardOne, posted a meaty piece on what he reads. In the midst were four blogs related to legal departments, including those of the ACC and Law.com. Third, Tim brought to my attention a new one for me and I quote his…
Mindsets that ought to undergird effective alternative fee arrangements (June 2, 2010) Six ways of thinking need to mesh for a law department to have confidence that a law firm will perform well under an alternative fee arrangement. The “standard hourly rate” is ephemeral – same timekeeper often bills different…
While looking at Twitter yesterday I noticed “Lists.” With Lists, which cost nothing to start, Twitter users assemble (follow) Twitter posters in a topical area. My tweets, which are Twitter-sized repeats of what I write here, have made their way onto 18 lists that have to do mostly with the…
Nearly 300 readers have subscribed to my newsletter, and I welcome more. If you sign up in the next few days I will send you the latest edition. It contains the four posts that were viewed the most during the past month and further reflections by me on each of…
I reviewed all the comments posted here since the start of 2009, more than 300 of them. The retrospective got me thinking. First, I very much appreciate comments and hope that they increase. Second, I have not made it a practice to reply to comments, but I have written some…