The blog has extruded ten more embedded metaposts with URL links (See my post of Sept. 16, 2008: Part XVIII.), each of which shows the number of references cited within them. 1. Annual reviews (See my post of Sept. 21, 2008: annual reviews and evaluations, with 12 references.) 2. Blog,…
Preparing to write something about Cisco, I rummaged through my past posts. Amazed, I found 30 that cite the company’s law department (See my post of June 30, 2006: much publicity about Cisco’s law department.). That is 25 percent more than the references I collected for General Electric (See my…
I have often written about this blog (See my post of Feb. 20, 2006: first anniversary and 1,000 posts; Feb. 20, 2007: two years and 2,000 posts; Feb. 5, 2008: third anniversary comments; Dec. 5, 2007: my pride in this blog; March 30, 2008: Law Department Management selected for Forbes…
Equine-imity: spurring horse metaphors until I am hoarse. Equipage leaves me cold, but when I saddle up I write/ride with a herd of horse metaphors. At a gallop I will reel off my posts that have been horsing around (See my post of Dec. 23, 2005: racehorses in a paddock…
Since my earliest months of this blog, about three-and-a-half years ago, the 16 categories to which I assign posts have remained stable. Perhaps I am too lazy to rethink them; perhaps most of what I write feels to me to fit comfortably into one of those categories; perhaps the categories…
What do you think is a plausible change in some aspect of how law departments will operate five years from now? If you email me a good idea, I will tip my hat to you on this blog, if not credit you in some research I am conducting with Legal…
Please make use of ten more embedded metaposts with URL links (See my post of Aug. 28, 2008: Part XVII.) along with the number of posts or other references cited within them. 1. Budgets, internal and not outside counsel (See my post of Sept. 9, 2008: internal budgets with 27…
More explanation about standard deviations and Bayesian statistics. There’s a 95 percent chance that normally distributed data will fall within two standard deviations of its mean. When statisticians say that a result is statistically significant, they are really just saying that some outcome is more than two standard deviations away…
Not that any reader has asked “How big is Law Department Management Blog?” but I wanted to know. As of September 3rd, my three Word files of past posts – including tables of contents for headers, and indices for sources and proper nouns – total 753,347 words. The 3,538 posts…
Please make use of ten more embedded metaposts with URL links (See my post of Aug. 21, 2008: Part XVI.) along with the number of posts or other references cited within them. 1. Compensation by level in the department (See my post of Aug. 27, 2008: compensation by levels with…