You are all invited, at least those of you who review and approve legal bills, to test drive my new polling capability. The question is on the upper right, below my blook notice. Pick your answer from the choices and we can all see instantly how the results shape up.…
Polar diagrams. Florence Nightingale used a polar diagram, similar to a pie chart, to depict illnesses and injuries, according to Gregory Berns, iconoclast: a neuroscientist reveals how to think differently (Harvard Bus. Press 2008) at 43. A polar diagram shows the magnitude of a quantity in several directions. A global…
My friend and fellow blogger, in-house counsel Hanna Hhasl-Kelchner, has kicked off a new way to help people with legal management questions. People are invited to submit questions and I will do my best to answer them. On her “Ask the No Nonsense Lawyer” website she recently posted an announcement…
Here are the most recent embedded metaposts with URL links (See my post of Jan.30, 2009: Part XXIV.), each of which shows the number of references cited within them. Accounting concepts such as accrual (See my post of March 18, 2007: accounting terms with 15 references; Aug. 12, 2008: options…
Until I spoke recently with Elizabeth Chambliss, a professor at NY Law School, I had only thought of law firms, some of the large ones at least, as having a single (and perhaps part-time) “general counsel” (See my post of Sept. 22, 2006: general counsel of law firms.). Chambliss mentioned…
After a corporate spin-off, such as when Kraft left the Philip Morris orbit, Catalent emerged from Cardinal Health, or Cendant broke itself into pieces, a spanking new law department enters the world (See my post of March 2, 2008: spin-off; and April 9, 2006: mentions Tyco, Cendant and Wendy’s.). The…
In To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch calmly deals with a rabid dog. He shoots it. Similarly, a number of statements quoted on this blog have triggered in me a metaphorical desire to do the same. After telling off another quote I disagree with (See my post of Feb. 15,…
Cost savings in discovery from the use of translation software. If discovery produces documents that are not in a language you or your litigation lawyers can read, t can be dramatically cheaper to have software do the brunt of the translation before people review the documents that remain. This, according…
Venture capitalists might struggle to find bonanzas in these startup ideas that aim at legal departments, but at least a dozen ideas for aspiring entrepreneurs have appeared on this blog. Some are fanciful, some are practical and all are waiting for someone to seize the business opportunity (See my post…
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