Charles Christian and his informative Orange Rag, which targets mostly law firms, had in the most recent issue a note that “eBay has selected CT TyMetrix 360 as its global legal spend management platform. eBay’s legal department currently works with over 250 law firms around the world and will be…
The Executive Director, Darren Lee, of the National Association of Distinguished Neutrals, wrote me. I looked briefly at the group’s website which claims that “With over 400 members throughout the United States, the NADN is the largest public roster of experienced ADR attorneys on the internet.” The list is available…
One tiny game I have been playing has been to search this blog for references to large law departments when they submit data for my General Counsel Metrics benchmark survey. Recently, Bank of America did so I played the pied piper (See my post of April 13, 2007: Bank of…
One tiny game I have been playing has been to search this blog for references to large law departments when they submit data for my General Counsel Metrics benchmark survey. Recently, Bank of America did so I played the pied piper (See my post of April 13, 2007: Bank of…
Here are four points drawn from Legal Strat. Rev., Summer 2010 at 23, which interviewed Sony Ericsson’s general counsel, Jonathan Pearl. (As an editorial note, these points – and other collections of points about a particular legal department – don’t justify a full post but neither should they be tossed…
A recent post summarizes IBM’s establishment of global legal delivery units (See my post of Sept. 9, 2010: two centers with dozens of lawyers.). The same article from which that development came, Legal Strat. Rev., Summer 2010 at 14, contains several other worthy points about legal department operations. One is…
At a conference, it is easy to daydream, lose yourself with your iPhone, edit a memorandum, and generally miss what the panelists say. Or, you can focus on extracting from even the dullest presentation nuggets that inspire you about law department management. Well, I can at least. The InsideCounsel SuperConference…
References on this blog to legal departments in Africa are hard to find. I am sure hundreds and hundreds of them thrive and manage very well, but their exploits have only rarely come to my attention (See my post of Sept. 17, 2005: De Beers group general counsel retired but…
Hard as it may be to get traction for a change within a single legal department, it is significantly harder to corral several law departments to march in one direction. Yet it happens. Several general counsel agree to do something jointly and the resulting shared effort, a consortium, can achieve…
The General Counsel of LG Electronics spoke at the InsideCounsel SuperConference on May 25 th. I note three of his practices. One is that his lawyers train ad agencies on the basics of intellectual property, such as trademarks and copyrights. His department also prepares a list of trademarks and usage…