Every month the 22 lawyers of Coca-Cola in Europe dial in for a conference call. (Every quarter the entire legal staff calls in.). For the monthly calls, according to a supplement in the ACC Docket, June 2010 after 32, “the chair, who sets the agenda for the calls and distributes…
Every month the 22 lawyers of Coca-Cola in Europe dial in for a conference call. (Every quarter the entire legal staff calls in.). For the monthly calls, according to a supplement in the ACC Docket, June 2010 after 32, “the chair, who sets the agenda for the calls and distributes…
A complimentary dummy book from EMC on in-house discovery groups. I had to smile at the recent SuperConference when I saw that EMC was handing out complimentary copies of the familiar yellow and black explanations for morons: Jake Frazier, Bringing eDiscovery In-House for Dummies (Wiley 2008). The 38-pager offers very…
The gradual move toward more and better data for general counsel has continued of late, or even picked up. We might be in the first year of a Decade of Data, given the developments and potentialities of the kind summarized below. Real Rate Report of TyMetrix on billing rates of…
Proportion of complex legal work in law departments is low and complexity does not equal high value (April 6, 2010) As a quote suggests, a general counsel might look to offshore providers to dispatch routine work and hope thereby to elevate the amount of complex and valued work done inside.…
New embedded metaposts, one for each finger, as well as the number of posts they cite (See my post of May 24, 2010: Part XLVII). Bidders’ teleconferences (See my post of May 28, 2010: bidders’ conferences in connection with RFPs with 6 references.). Budgets from outside counsel, inflated (See my…
A table in the FTI Journal, Spring 2010 at 39, counts new filings of international arbitrations per year going back to 2000. It covers 14 arbitral institutions. In 2008, the top four by number of new filings were AAA-ICDR (US, 703), the International Chamber of Commerce (France, 663), the Hong…
Almost as ubiquitous as little blue pills are posts on this blog about the world’s largest pharmaceutical company. Here they are about Pfizer in chronological order (See my post of Oct.1, 2005: Laura Kibbe and internal discovery team; Feb. 14, 2007: standard for handling litigation documents; Feb. 25, 2007: secondees;…
Embedded metaposts, ten more of them, as well as their census of back references (See my post of April 21, 2010: Part XLVI), plus their back references. Artificial intelligence (See my post of April 21, 2010: AI and legal applications with 9 references and 2 metaposts] Law firm innovation (See…
GCs who report to the CEO are paid more, and a few thoughts on reasons why (March 2, 2010) It could be that they report to someone lower than the CEO, with a lower compensation ceiling. Or they are less experience or manage fewer functions. Legal departments of US companies…