Intrigued by the handful of patents or patent applications pertinent to general counsel that have come to light, I foraged on Free Patents Online. I searched in abstracts of a US database for the term “legal.” That term came up with 142,231 “matches,” which were ranked by some mysterious score…
“Legal strategic analysis planning and evaluation control system and method” is the euphonious, lapidary description of United States Patent 5875431. It came to light because a friend of mine, Stuart E. Rickerson, is one of the patent owners. My goal is to share it with the law-department management community. Proust…
A survey of 200 attorneys in 2005, “from the largest law firms and corporations in the United States and Canada,” asked about offshore services. Robert Half Legal’s Future Law Office report, “Client Service: Challenges and Strategies,” at 14, gave the percentages who selected one or more of six services. Litigation…
Ken Adams, who knows all there is to know about contracts and agreements, doesn’t think that my projection about contracts available for free online is, well, presciently drafted. Ken writes on his blog, Adams Drafting,“YourFreeLegalForms.com is another docstoc. [Click here for his November 2007 post that criticize an early release…
If you build the knowledge, will they come? My field of dreams has been that this blog will attract consulting clients. “Hey, here’s a guy who knows a lot about how to manage things in legal departments, an attorney by training with years of consulting experience, so let’s ping him!”…
LexVisio includes 45 categories of service providers under “Practice Support.” I counted 22 categories that might point an in-house lawyer in the direction of a desired service provider. Those 22 categories list 600 vendors, with the most (161) in “Court Reporters.” “Technology Consultants,” “Trademark Support, Copyright and Patent Services,” “Litigation…
I paid attention to the Small Law Department Compensation Survey conducted in the summer of 2008 by ACC and Empsight, www.accempsight.com, at page 9 of the Review Sample. The table on that page lists widely varying numbers of companies who gave data for seven benchmark metrics. For example, the number…
Some reader, who can thereby enjoy their 15 minutes of fame on this blog, should tell me where there is a comprehensive list of blogs that concentrate on legal-related offshoring. In the meantime I trawled some blog rolls and offer this list of 15, without comments and in alphabetical order.…
Legally Yours, an impressive blog site edited by Rahul Jindal, displays the results of a survey. The 287 respondents, of undisclosed source, answered the question, “Which service are you outsourcing/considering to outsource/supporting?” [Not the optimal phrasing for a question if you want crisp metrics, but set that aside.] Legal Research…
The tumultuous saga of Borealis AG’s law department appears in the ACC Docket, Vol. 26, Nov. 2008 at 38. In September 2006, the team had a dozen members, “a mixture of lawyers, paralegals (contract manager and company secretarial), a law student, ethics officer, and support staff.” Highlighted by a relocation…