In various posts I have tried to get a handle on the number of matter management systems commonly available for law departments and even the numbers of their users. It’s hard. Part of the difficulty is that other kinds of software relate to matter management or overlap with some of…
How many law department matter management packages are available and installed in more than a couple of departments in the United States? Somewhere in the range of 20 to 40. No one knows for sure, but my recent posts have referred to some of the choices (See my post of…
Neuroscience and creativity. “We now know that moments of insight come from a particular circuit in the back of the right hemisphere of the brain called the superior anterior temporal gyrus.” Rotman Mag., Fall 2011 at 76. Aha, I get it, I finally get it! (See my post of Jan.…
“59 per cent of respondents [to the survey referenced below] indicated that the percentage of legal work outsourced to an external law firm has decreased in the past five years.” This quote comes from The In-House Perspective, April 2011 at 13, which cites Deloitte & Touche’s “Forensic Corporate Counsel Survey…
Founded in 1995 by Gary Levine, the former general counsel of Pilot Software, Two Step Software offers Corporate Focus. As explained by the Needham, MA company on its website, Corporate Focus provides law departments with “a single, consolidated online system for entity management, ownership administration, equity accounting, and corporate compliance.”…
Most outside counsel guidelines that I have reviewed make it clear: “You may not comment to the media or disclose your representation of our company.” Even so, I can only conclude from a survey I just saw that some law departments are more tolerant of publicity. The choices included permitted…
No claims of originality or eloquence, but a writer in Diversity & The Bar, July/Aug. 2011 at 31, condensed the advantages usually cited for in-house counsel very succinctly. As background, Corporate Counsel Women of Color (CCWC) collected survey responses, among other forms of data gathering, from 857 women of color…
“A mobile ‘app’ is a piece of software linked to a smartphone [such as a Droid or iPhone that has computer capabilities] that allows its user to perform any number of functions,” write the authors of an article about the legal issues associated with mobile apps (Met. Corp. Counsel, Sept.…
Has anyone encountered or heard of such a strange request? A lawyer from a fair-sized department wrote me with a strange story. The Board of Directors is looking for “compliance certificates” from each area of the Law Department. My email friend wrote that “While other parts of the Law department…
As the General Counsel Metrics benchmark survey collects increasingly fuller data about law departments and the matter management systems they use, I decided to bring up to date my posts on that software. Previously I collected three dozen posts (See my post of Aug. 5, 2008: matter management systems with…