I quote and comment on two extracts from the online brochure of the US Postal Service’s Law Department. “Over 220 attorneys make up the Postal Service’s in-house ‘law firm.’ Led by a General Counsel appointed by the Postmaster General, the Law Department is composed of a corporate headquarters in Washington,…
Fascinated as I am with Web 2.0 and blogs, I offer some more analyses from free sites on the web. Am I competitive? How Rank figures out rankings of blogs, and my page rank is 3. What does that mean? According to Feedburner, during the period January 16, 2007 –…
Here are the most recent embedded metaposts with URL links (See my post of Feb. 20, 2009: Part XXV.), each of which shows the number of references cited within them. Academics interested in law department management (See my post of Feb. 25, 2009: academics with 16 references.). ASP or SaaS…
Information theory and leakage of information in law departments. According to information theory, each transmission of information diminishes the accuracy of what is transmitted (See my post of May 23, 2008: every relay doubles the noise and cuts the message in half.). Doesn’t that suggest that each summary of some…
My funny American accent doesn’t come through on this blog, but previously I have called out terms that are distinctively British (See my post of Feb. 9, 2006: British terms and references cited; Nov. 30, 2007 #2: charge-out rates; and Jan. 4, 2008: more than 20 trans-Atlantic terms.). A recent…
I want to thank Ute Mehnert, my neighbor, friend, and excellent journalist, for her help with this transation. Rees Morrison, ein erfahrener Jurist und Unternehmensberater, stellt seine Expertise in einem Blog zur Verfügung. Unter LawDepartmentManagementBlog.com sind mehr als 4000 Einträge aus 13 Kategorien abrufbar. Seit über 20 Jahren berät Morrison,…
After a slow start with posts that mention Research & Development (R&D), this blog has picked up the pace. So I did some research and developed this metapost. The bulk of the posts have to do with benchmarks (See my post of Aug. 3, 2005: patents granted per million dollars…
Through the expert assistance of Richard Ramos and LanguageTran, which specializes in Spanish translation services, Spanish-reading in-house counsel can find out more about this blog and Rees Morrison. Rees Morrison, un experimentado asesor de departamentos jurídicos, escribe el blog LawDepartmentManagementBlog.com. Hasta el 1 de febrero de 2009 ha publicado más…
So many management points popped up in a recent Legal Week article (26/06/2008) about ITV’s new legal chief, Andrew Garard, that I decided to choose juicy quotes and embellish them (See my post of Feb. 13, 2009: drastic purge of law firms.). The ITV legal team includes 87 lawyers. “I…
Snarky writing cleverly spoofs the powerful and respected. It pokes sophisticated fun at those in high positions and cleverly mocks them. But there is no snark in law-department land. No general counsel gets lampooned. Why? Money muzzles snark. Simple. Service providers want to sell to general counsel; vendors want buyers;…