Just shy of three years after I started this blog, I realized that I had created at least 10 metaposts – collections of at least six posts on a topic. So, on Feb. 3, 2008, I published my first group of what I called embedded metaposts, and published three more…
Previous posts here have mined some of the findings from a Legalbill survey of thousands of law firm lawyers. The survey asked about UTBMS codes used by the firms on their invoices. One question was “Over the last 18 months, based on your clients’ analysis of your invoices using information…
No Road to Damascus vision causes a CEO to hire the company’s first house attorney. Rather, the CEO or CFO probably becomes aware of several arguments that compel the decision. Consider eight of them, in the order that I think they contribute to the decision (See my post of May…
Emic and etic descriptions of law department activities. These are terms used by social scientists to refer to two kinds of descriptions of human behavior. An “emic” account is a description of behavior or a belief in terms meaningful (consciously or unconsciously) to the actor; that is, an emic account…
Claims management (See my post of June 14, 2011: management of claims with 11 references.). Contracts work core to in-house counsel (See my post of June 16, 2011: core function of inside lawyers is contracts with 13 references.). Contract practices (See my post of June 14, 2011: practices related to…
With a rash of recent metaposts on contracts and how they are managed internally, I thought I should pull together a hyperpost. Here are 12 metaposts – collections of six or more blog posts on a topic – I have assembled, including two on document assembly. Contracts, see document assembly…
In a recent article, Scott Giordano of Mitratech credited Ben Heineman (General Electric’s former general counsel) with an observation he and others must believe to be profound. “The greatest challenge for the GC is to reconcile the dual and sometimes contradictory role of being a partner to the business and…
An e-mail arrived from Thomas G. Oakes Associates about their services and software to support trial presentations. Oakes’ spiel is that trial presentation technology can help the judge and jury visualize and understand your story. It lets you compare items, such as documents, photographs, or videos. You can retrieve and…
A survey last month by Legalbill, a provider of cost-management software for legal departments, obtained data from more than 600 U.S. law firm lawyers about their use of UTBMS codes. One survey question asked “To what degree have you changed the amount of attention given to selecting the most appropriate…
During a recent consulting project, the general counsel said that about two years ago he had systematically met with nearly two dozen of his department’s major clients. He had asked all them basically the same questions – “How are we doing?” and “How can we do better?” – and compiled…