Honored to be on a list of top ten legal blogs. James Dunning, a former UK general counsel, selected Law Department Management for his recent list of top ten legal blogs, calling it “a detailed and frequently updated blog from Rees Morrison for in-house legal teams.” Twitter and its tracking…
Almost three years ago I pulled together several terms from psychology that are relevant to the operations of legal departments (See my post of July 21, 2006: psychology and several of its concepts, all blended into this post.). Thereafter, repression must have set in and I forgot to update the…
A course in law school, “Practicing Law In-House.” Profiled in ACC Docket, Vol. 27, April 2009 at 94, David Benck, general counsel for Hibbett Sports , teaches a course at Samford University’s Cumberland School of Law. His course “teaches aspiring attorneys the details of becoming a practicing member of a…
Having read about Google Trends, I reflexively researched several key terms for this blog. Searchers with Google have had a steady propensity to look during the last several years for “legal department;” searches for “law department” have been tailing off slightly; and those for “general counsel” have held steady. Globally,…
Your humble scribe aspires to no less than a multi-year effort to collect and intelligently comment on as much about management of legal departments as possible. The online corpus, now nearly 4,300 posts, offers visitors much to read and ponder. What I have labored on besides chronological posts is to…
Language structures the way we think and experience the world; the atom of thinking and expressing is the word, so I have steadfastly defined many of the management words used by general counsel (See my post of Dec. 11, 2006: a rich and precise vocabulary; March 12, 2009: distinctions between…
Here are my latest embedded metaposts (See my post of April 5, 2009: Part XXVIII.), each of which shows the number of references cited within them. Approval authorization of invoices (See my post of April 13, 2009: signing off on bill review with 6 references.). Bayesian statistics (See my post…
Morphology. The basic idea is that if you understand the underlying parts of a system (the system’s sub-functions), you will better understand the entire system. Law departments are systems, but it is not clear what are their morphological components (See my post of Sept. 22, 2005: that discipline of systems…
Steve Taylor spoke with me several weeks ago and the profile he wrote came out in Of Counsel, April 2009, at 14. The six-page tell-all is . Possibly off interest in a non-tabloid vein are my thoughts at the end about how this blog aspires to leave a legacy of…
In its April Fool’s Day issue, the National Law Journal announced the “20 most influential general counsel in America.” No doubt every one of them is a distinguished lawyer and person. For sure every one of the general counsel on the list has accomplished much and brought honor to his…