They hyper-active Paul Lippe of Legal OnRamp continues to embrace new collaborations. Recently, GC Roundtable linked up with his online network and now a major vendor to legal departments has joined. I learned about this from Charles Christian’s American Legal Technology Insider, March 2010. CT TyMetrix “announced a partnership with…
Recovery of legal fees for successful defense of the Crown’s criminal action. Law departments in the UK have the right to recover the legal fees they pay in defense of criminal charges, if acquitted. For example, the engineering firm Balfour Beatty and Network Rail, which runs the UK’s trains, recovered…
In case you missed them, here are the “Editor’s Choices”: Survey your law firms, but observe some courtesies (Jan. 5, 2010) Your firms can provide all kinds of information to you, but ask judiciously and always share the feedback Data on the costs of intellectual property litigation and recent increases…
Oops, I have egg on my face. I divided numbers of lawyers by 5 instead of multiplying by .05. Big oops. So the original header said "40,000" but should have said "10,000". I will deal appropriately but sternly with my fall-down-on-the job staff of fact checkers! Rees Morrison Data from 2004 compiled by…
The “world rank” of this blog, Phi Beta Blogga, and other memorabilia. According to SiteLogr.com, on February 11th, the “world rank” was 1,256,081. Now that the applause has died down, it can also be revealed that this site placed an “Estimated Value” of $1,353 on my pride and joy and…
For those readers who have endured or been affected by the monsterous snowfalls on the East Coast, here is what my house looked like from the igloo next door. Fortunately, neither rain nor 22+ inches of snow keep this blogger from his duly appointed posts. Long bouts of shoveling does,…
Attorney-client privilege may soon apply to in-house lawyers in France. As reported in the European Lawyer, Issue 92, Jan. 2010 at 21, the Rapport Darrois proposes to allow lawyers who go in-house to remain as members of their local bar, and thus afford their clients the protection of the attorney-client…
Laura Stein, the general counsel of Clorox, describes her role and department in Practical Law, Feb. 2010 at 96. From that profile we can make several comments. Benchmarks. The $5.3 billion company employs 30 lawyers, which means slightly fewer than six lawyers per billion. That seems somewhat higher than one…
I picked these out of around 95 posts in November on my blog. Click on the link to read the full post. Seven variations on rate freezes from the traditional choice of one or two years (Nov. 17, 2009) Seven ideas, all eligible for variations and combinations. Any logic to…
An early and focused in-house litigation lawyer (Chanel 1928). According to a review in the London Rev. of Books, Jan. 7, 2010 at 33, early in her business career the legendary Coco Chanel struck what she felt was a terrible deal with the businessmen who marketed her perfumes. By 1928,…