So far, I have collected posts and created metaposts on Cisco, DuPont, FMC Technologies, GE, McDonalds and Microsoft. These six total 154 posts (See my post of Sept. 25, 2008: Cisco with 30 references; June 7, 2009: DuPont with 32 references; June 7, 2009: FMC Technologies with 15 references; July…
As part of a series on posts here about specific companies, General Electric deserved a festschrift for its 35 posts. Many of the GC posts boast of costs and savings (See my post of Jan. 14, 2007: document management and savings from it; Aug. 5, 2008: savings from early case…
Take notice of good counsel on the other side. “Some [legal departments] track their expenditures per matter based on the identity/quality of opposing counsel to determine the best advocate against a thorny opponent or to hire that opposing lawyer away.” Met. Corp. Counsel, Vol. 17, June 2009 at 11 (Marcus…
F-statistic analyses. The F-statistic tests the equality of the means in a group of figures, which is used sometimes to separate sets of figures into categories, as mentioned in Laura Empson, ed., Managing The Modern Law Firm: New Challenges New Perspectives (Oxford Univ. Press 2007) at 99 (Brian Uzzi, Ryon…
Having collected posts on several other legal departments whose management efforts have been well-publicized, I decided to tally them for Microsoft. Setting aside any references on Law Department Management Blog to the software licensed by Microsoft, I found 30 references to what that company’s enormous and active legal group has…
The War of “Legal” Department vs. “Law” Department! The brawl over “Associate” vs “Assistant” General Counsel!! The vicious struggle between backers of general counsel (plural) and general counsels. The endless and cruel conflicts over word choices that go to the heart of one’s self and the meaning of life. So,…
Rapid growth of Starbuck’s legal department. Corp. Bd. Mbr., Vol. 12, 2nd Quarter 2009 at 46, says that after Paula Boggs became the general counsel of Starbucks in 2002, she “tripled the size of the legal department to 147 attorneys.” That is caffeinated growth and adds to this blogs collection…
With 4,500 posts under my belt, I looked back over the distribution of posts by the dozen substantive categories I use. Outside Counsel Mgt. (976) Talent Mgt. (602) Mgt. Tools and Initiatives (566) Productivity (428) Controlling Legal Costs (428) Metrics and Benchmarks (224) Structure (213) Showing Value (166) Client Satisfaction…
Ten more embedded metaposts (See my post of June 7, 2009: Part XXXIII), each embellished with the number of its back references. Law departments of Asia (See my post of June 13, 2009: Asian law departments with 12 references.). Collective actions (See my post of June 10, 2009: joint collaborations…
Imagine! An image on this stodgy blog. Inspired by What About Clients, I inserted an image into a recent blog post. Invoking the Three Tenors of opera fame, I found a picture of them online, figured out how to save it and uploaded it to TypePad, although I did not…