An interactive benchmarking tool is available on the IT Policy Compliance Group (IT PCG) site. The Group describes the tool as able to: Find the maturity of your legal data custody practices [how progressive your practices are] Determine how much money you can save by improving your practices (See my…
Law departments deserve information from prospective law firms and service providers and law departments have a right to ask them probing questions. Nevertheless, having reviewed several RFPs lately, I object to several questions. The following questions, modified only slightly, are blatantly intrusive and unfair. Even procurement managers should blush. Whom…
Some 221 companies responded to a survey by iPerformance Group concerning their inventor reward and recognition programs. A summary of the findings appear in IP Law & Bus., Jan. 2009 at 12. Most of the companies that recognize the efforts of inventors provided financial rewards. What fascinates me is the…
General counsel and other managers in legal departments designate project teams for almost every conceivable task I define a “project team” as a group of people charged to accomplish a task in a timeframe and then to disband. Beyond that goal, teams in law departments serve purposes other than the…
Ideas for my blog posts materialize everywhere, especially from the books I read. Consultants travel all the time, and you will never guess what I do on flights…. I looked back and found most of the books I cited this year, listed here by author (See my post of March…
A long questionnaire deters clients from responding to a client-satisfaction survey (or members of the law department to a morale survey). Even so, some general counsel want to explore how clients or employees feel about a large number of attributes. Is there a way to resolve these competing interests between…
Justia is the wonderful group that designed and runs my website. They also maintain a vast directory of law-related blogs. Under the category Corporate Law Department Blogs” 14 are listed. Justia gives each blawg a rank based on the number of visits to the blawg from Justia’s BlawgSearch search engine…
In fits and starts I run across blogs kindred to this one: on how best to manage aspects of law departments. Four more have recently surfaced: InHouse Insider by Esq. Recruiting LLC In-House by the staff of the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) Lawdable, by Counsel on Call The Posse…
One of ten “predictive analytic techniques” describe in MIT Sloan Mgt. Rev., Vol. 50, Winter 2009 at 32-35, attributized Bayesian analysis could be used by a law department. For example, the tool could clarify why an in-house lawyer selects firms as he or she does by examining the attributes of…
A previous post on my spelunking among US patent filings for those that have relevance to law department managers lists two granted patents (See my post of Jan. 23, 2009: many more patents that pertain to legal department managers.). This post gives a quick summary of the remaining 14 applications…