Wal-Mart to require outside law firms to have flextime policies – over-reaching? (Nov. 6, 2009)
In light of Wal-Mart’s request that law firms it uses must offer flextime, thoughts on the impositions by a legal department on how its law firms should operate
Evaluate firms on attributes, but also ask your attorneys to say how important those attributes are (Nov. 6, 2009)
This post continues my series of thumbs up for other blogs and websites that have directed readers to Law Department Management Blog (See my post of Nov. 15, 2009: history of this series.). I have accumulated 13 more to acknowledge and thank.
decentshred.wordpress.com/ (Shy Alter)
gbltd.com/blog/ (Greenfield/Belser’s brandthinking)
Sorry, I can’t help myself. I am proud of this blog and pour so much time and attention into it I can’t pass by a metric regarding it (See my post of Dec. 13, 2009 #3: Technorati and two other rankings.).
Wikio reports monthly on a small set of legal-related blogs, including mine, which is number 84 out of 100. Of those ranked higher, three focus on legal technology (Technolawyer 41; Future Lawyer 59; and Dennis Kennedy 63) and three focus on law firm marketing or management (Legal Marketing 53; Legal Business Development 58, and Law Biz 79).
In my blog’s sphere of law departments and the law firms they retain, one might include Pat Lamb’s blog (30), Gerry Riskin’s Amazing Firms (65), and Matt Homann’s The [non]billable hour (72).
Ten thoughtful posts, with the underlined portion what you should click to read the entire post. I welcome thoughts on these posts.
Online dispute resolution (the double-blind method) and benefits for legal departments (Oct. 20, 2009)
A method not only to resolve amounts to be paid in settlements but also, perhaps, to arrive at a figure for fixed fee services.
Every time I hear from one of you, every comment left here, every cite to a post on another blog, every new thing tried on this blog enthuses me and keeps me going. It’s been brewing almost five years and more than 5,000 posts. Yesterday I learned that from 2,600+ legal blogs the ABA Journal has selected LawDepartmentManagementBlog as one of the best 100 legal blawgs.
Thank you all, and drop me a note. Or, vote early and often for this blog by clicking on the award to the right.
If bloggers don’t tinker and take chances, their blog dries up and blows away. So I keep trying out new things, and welcome ideas for more (See my post of Feb. 20, 2009: first blook, metapost, and article on blog; Feb. 26, 2009: first poll, YouTube video; podcast, and use of Twitter; and July 22, 2009: 10 more firsts.).
This blog has tested a number of improvements in the past four months, aside from my first advertisement, for DataCert and my listing on NewsText (See my post of Sept. 28, 2009: offers table of contents of blooks; June 29, 2009: free Metapost Plus’s; July 22, 2009: first four blook reviews, reviews of books through multiple blog posts; Aug. 28, 2009: analysis of visitors through poll; Nov. 10, 2009 #3: Concordance of headers; Nov. 10, 2009 #5: readers on iPhone; and Nov. 16, 2009: being on lists on Twitter.).
Thanks to a suggestion from James Dunning of GeoTrupes, I also posted my first announcement on a “twibe,” a Twitter tribe (group). It is “Law” and it had 459 members when I joined. I also added “subscribe by email” by activating that on FeedBurner.
Readers who add me to their RSS feed are near and dear to me. One or two do a day and it cheers me up. “Now, there’s someone,” I say to myself, “who has a discriminating eye for blog quality!”
During the first 11 days of November, FeedBurner reports that this blog had an average of Subscribers 620; Reach 124; Raw Hits 4,343; Clickthroughs 278; and Impressions 941. It estimated 642 subscribers on November 11th, the most this blog has ever had and then 685 the next day. Four months earlier there were 69 fewer average Subscribers, and half as many “Raw hits” (See my post of July 19, 2009: Feedburner statistics with 7 references.).
Google Feedfetcher with 512 subscribers and Bloglines with 102 dominated the large number of feed readers and aggregators. MyBlogLog also tells me that from Nov. 5 to Nov. 11, the sixth most common click by visitors was on the “Subscribe to Rees’s Blog” button (4 clicks in total).
This post continues my series of 53 thanks. I appreciate it when other blogs or websites cite one of my posts or include me on their blog roll. In the past three months I ran across another 17 (See my post of June 17, 2009: 14 blogs/websites that have directed readers here; June 26, 2009: 13 more referral sources; July 10, 2009: 13 more referral sites; July 19, 2009: another baker’s dozen; and Aug. 21, 2009: fifth set of a baker’s dozen.).
Huzzah!!!! This is my 5,000th post, just as I leave for a week’s vacation in London.
During the 55 months since this blog began late in February 2005, an average of three posts a day have appeared. The total number of words amounts to a bit less than 1.1 million (See my post of Nov. 10, 2009 #3: concordance analysis of nearly 5,000 posts; and Sept. 1, 2008: three-quarters of a million words and some other metrics.). All those words in those 5,000 posts (as of Nov. 13, 2009) group into thirteen primary categories:
Outside Counsel 22%; Talent 13%; Tools 12%; Productivity 9%; Controlling Costs 9%; Observations 8%; Benchmarks 5%; Structure 5%; Showing Value 4%; Client Satisfaction; 3%; Thinking 3%; Technology 3%; and Knowledge Mgt. 2%. The remainder I categorized as Guest, Writing, or This Blog (See my post of June 23, 2009: thoughts on first 4,500 posts’ categories; Sept. 22, 2005: thoughts on my categories; March 4, 2007: visits to blog by category; Jan. 13, 2008: categories by interest of readers; and Sept. 1, 2008: insights into categories on this blog.).
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Despite nearly 5,000 posts, this blog doesn’t have much about the role of in-house counsel and corporate document retention practices. Widely scattered posts offer little about this topic, mostly because this blogger doesn’t encounter records policies and practices in his consulting projects (See my post of April 19, 2006: matter codes and records retention; Jan. 25, 2007: GM and its records retention software; Dec. 23, 2005: law department responsibilities for records management policies; Feb. 6, 2007: data on vulnerability in document retention; and Feb. 5, 2007: document retention and destruction.).
On the plus side of the ledger and related to enterprise-wide document retention policies, this blog has commented on legal holds and on document management (See my post of Aug. 27, 2008: litigation hold notices with 6 references; and Dec. 6, 2007: document management with 15 references.).
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