The law department of United Technologies has approximately 275 in-house lawyers. Aside from those based at the company’s headquarters in the United States, approximately 250 work from 79 locations and 20 countries! This information on geographic spread comes from GC Insights: What Multinational General Counsel Value Most (ACC 2012, supplement…
Below is a translation from Portuguese of an item about a Brazilian state (Maranhao) and its establishment of a minimum wage for in-house lawyers. This came from a Brazilian consulting firm’s website. “The controversy surrounding the base salary of lawyers seems to be in their final days in Maranhao.…
In the Asian Lawyer, Summer 2012, two lawyers from a Korean firm state that “the size of the Korean legal market is around USD 3 to 3.5 billion. Excluding litigation, the market size of the transaction market may be about USD 1 billion.” Elsewhere I have offered some data on…
New South Wales is Australia’s largest state, population 7.25 million out of 22.4 million in the country, and home to the country’s capital, Sydney. Of the 23,760 solicitors who held current NSW Practising Certificates in 2010, 11.6 % worked in government while 18.2 % worked in corporations. The “2010 Profile…
Interviewed by the CCCA Mag., Winter, 2010, the tub-thumping former general counsel of General Electric offers a grandiose view of the general counsel’s role. According to Ben Heinemann, a trend that is more powerful than cost-cutting is “that business and society issues have become an important part of the CEOs…
An article in the J. Empirical Legal Studies, June 2012 at 233, relies on box-and-whisker plots to describe large amounts of its data. Since the whiskers show the minimum and maximum values for a given variable, the authors chose a convention for how to handle “outside values.” “An outside value…
I hope you like my blog make-over. Through the excellent work of my friends at Justia and the steady encouragement of Geoff Gussis, this blog heads into the second half of 2012 and beyond as a WordPress blog. As of July 4, 2012, a day after my new WordPress blog…
The term “reverse mentoring,” new to me, it appears in InsideCounsel, April 2012 at 41. They are programs “in which people who are in the earlier stages of their careers mentor more-experienced attorneys in the department to help them to see the organization from the eyes of people at an…
Thomas Lalla, the General Counsel of Pernod Ricard USA, makes a good suggestion about professional education. Writing in InsideCounsel, April 2012 at 10, Lalla urges law departments to “incorporate in-house training conducted by members of your legal team.” By this I presume he means that if your attorneys give short…
Release 2.0 of the General Counsel Metrics global benchmark survey will go out in early August. It looks set to have more than 500 participating companies, on the way to a thousand this year. A benefit to be introduced with this Release is a collection of 110 of…