More costs not included in fully-loaded cost calculations. In 2005, Robert Half Legal published its Future Law Office report on “Client Service: Challenges and Strategies.” On page 17, a senior lawyer at Ernst & Young mentions that his company instituted several popular initiatives aimed at retaining good staff. He mentioned…
Yearly paper usage by white-collar workers. The Atlantic, Jan./Feb. 2009 at 67, tells us that white collar workers, at least, are gradually moving toward less paper. In 2000, the average worker – with lawyers included somewhere in the lot – consumed 144.2 pounds of paper. In 2008, the average declined…
My blook on outside counsel managementcould not have been published without a range of software. Word, the sina qua non software. Every word in the blog and blog owes a debt to Word. Dragon Naturally Speaking for dictation (See my post of Feb. 23, 2008: dictation with 5 references). Concordance,…
Four times I have attempted to pull together the definitions on this blog of terms that are important for general counsel (See my post of May 3, 2006: 32 definitions; Aug. 26, 2006: ten definitions; and Nov. 26, 2006: 13 more definitions.). My most recent effort was late in 2007…
Here are the most recent embedded metaposts with URL links (See my post of Dec.29, 2008: Part XXII.), each of which shows the number of references cited within them. Benchmarks, historically (See my post of Jan. 12, 2009: benchmarks over time with 8 references.). Brainstorm (See my post of Dec.…
R&D spending is seven times total legal spending. For the “Global Innovation 1000,” as defined in an article from strategy + bus., Iss. 53, Winter 2008 at 60, R&D spending as a percentage of sales amounted to 3.7 percent in 2007. Since 0.5 percent is a fairly figure for total…
This blog has accumulated close to 3,900 posts. For me to be able to find, organize and build on the 14.7MB of material I have written, I need software tools. I tried to learn Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) programming beyond the macros Word can create easily, but quickly surrendered.…
Addendum to inside-outside comparison of interdiction. The advantages of inside lawyers and outside lawyers differ in terms of identifying and stopping wrong-doing (See my post of Dec. 27, 2008: Ron Pol quadrants *1.). My point on one perspective was that “I give a strong edge to the partner, because putting…
A dream I have is that every back reference on this blog (“See my post of Dec. 31, 2008: something.)” is a back reference)) were hyperlinked to the previous post and every post shows at the bottom the posts later on that cite it – forward references. This soup of…
Here are the most recent embedded metaposts with URL links (See my post of Dec. 16, 2008: Part XXI.), each of which shows the number of references cited within them. Beauty contests (See my post of Dec. 21, 2008: beauty contests with 8 references cited.). Bill auditors (See my post…