Who are the Pavarotti, Carreras and Domingo currently singing the leading roles as law department managers and innovators? Tom Sager of DuPont, Mark Chandler of Cisco, and Jeff Carr of FMC Technologies are center stage and the tenor of their contributions has been projected far and wide. Between the three…
For all my readers in Brazil and Portugal, a little background: Um consultor bem informado para advogados escreve no blog LawDepartmentManagementBlog.com. Há mais de 4,000 arquivos (à partir do primeiro de Fevereiro, 2009) divididos entre 13 categorias. Há 20 anos que, Rees Morrison, um advogado antigo dos Estados Unidos, tem…
Jeff Carr’s eight-lawyer department at $4.6 billion FMC Technologies punches far above its weight when it comes to innovative and publicized management efforts. Consistently he not only comes up with progressive ideas but also publicize them (See my post of June 30, 2006: law departments often in the news for…
DuPont – big, big legal budget, and big on operational improvements, is the company most written about on this blog. Averaging a bit more than a half dozen posts each year, the ideas, innovation, and ink of Tom Sager’s team have been abundant (See my post of April 2, 2005:…
Ten more embedded metaposts (See my post of May 22, 2009: Part XXXII), each draped with the number of its back references. Audits of legal departments (See my post of June 4, 2009: internal audits of law departments with 12 references.). Concentration (See my post of May 29, 2009: measures…
An article in Asian Counsel, Vol. 17, May 2009 at 23, by TranslateMedia’s Rupert Evans offers good advice regarding transation services. Rupert@translatemedia.com Look to see whether a translation agency is a member of the ATA (the American Translators Association) or the ATC (Association of Translation Companies). If they are members,…
Regional patent applications. “With 28,000 cases under management, Canon Europe’s patent department files approximately 200 applications on behalf of Canon Inc every year, in addition to European filings from other group company offices around the world.” Those facts come from IP Rev., Spring 2009 at 37. The next issue, Summer…
Dan Hull, on his What About Clients, flattered me today: “At his well-regarded Law Department Management, Rees Morrison, by far one of the smarter, sager and more experienced lawyer-consultants out there, just asked “Does a General Counsel Make All That Much Difference?” Bitter Lawyer on May 8th goes Hunter Thomsonesq:…
Several posts here have mentioned United Technologies’ legal department (See my post of Dec. 8, 2005: lessons learned from alternative billing; Dec. 19, 2005: difficulty proving savings from discounts; Jan. 6, 2006: captive offshore facility; and Aug. 24, 2006: use of a balanced scorecard.). When I read in Legal Tech.…
That is the headline of one of the six “don’ts” of working-capital management, as laid out in the Harv. Bus. Rev., Vol. 86, May 2009 at 67. Working capital is not the same as legal spending and staffing, I agree, but the point that follows the quote may still apply…