Law Department Managementtag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-1102892012-07-03T12:43:56ZA lawyer who has been consulting solely to law departments for the past 23 years, Rees Morrison discusses topics related to managing in-house counsel. Topics are aimed at general counsel and chief legal officers, and concern all aspects of legal department management and costs, including convergence, external counsel management, legal software, matter management, case management, client satisfaction, legal benchmarks, structure, productivity and cost control. E-mail Rees: rees@reesmorrison.com or call him at 973 568-9110.
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Statistics compilation débuts in Release 2.0 of GC Metrics benchmarks, along with data 500+ companies – why don’t you join in?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834519fb069e2017742fa7445970d2012-07-03T08:43:56-04:002012-07-03T12:43:56Z2012-07-03T12:43:56ZRelease 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...Rees MorrisonBenchmarksA small attempt to stimulate collective thinking on law department operationstag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834519fb069e2016768156d2c970b2012-07-02T08:16:06-04:002012-07-02T12:16:06Z2012-07-02T12:16:06ZI tried something for the first time. I prepared a decent draft of an article to be published and circulated it for comments to about a half dozen people whose thoughts I would value. Academics do that all the time...Rees MorrisonThis BlogA benchmark metric worth fighting for: lawyers per army combatantstag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834519fb069e2016768156a18970b2012-07-02T08:14:54-04:002012-07-02T12:14:54Z2012-07-02T12:14:54ZDuring the Iraqi “surge,” the “Army had one lawyer or paralegal for every 240 combatants, and these legal professionals have ever more say over battlefield decisions. That is leaving aside the judge advocates general (or JAGs), who offer guidance on...Rees MorrisonBenchmarksReflections prompted by publicity regarding the ACC’s 2011 Census Reporttag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834519fb069e20176160a6f80970c2012-07-02T08:14:26-04:002012-07-02T12:14:26Z2012-07-02T12:14:26ZThe Association of Corporate counsel (ACC) collected data in the spring of 2011 and recently made it available in its 2011 Census Report. Based only on promotional material available on ACC's website, here are my initial thoughts. http://www.acc.com/legalresources/resource.cfm?show=1306363 The ACC...Rees MorrisonBenchmarksWisdom about law departments and metrics from a GC serving as an interim CEOtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834519fb069e20176160a6d62970c2012-07-02T08:13:28-04:002012-07-02T12:13:28Z2012-07-02T12:13:28ZTom Kilroy, the General Counsel of a UK company has another role: “For the past three months, I've occupied a line management rather than a legal role, as acting Chief Executive Officer of a publicly listed company with 4,200 employees,...Rees MorrisonBenchmarksIf there are something like 80,000 publicly traded companies in the world, how many privately held companies with law departments might there be?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834519fb069e20176160a6a7f970c2012-07-02T08:12:29-04:002012-07-02T12:12:29Z2012-07-02T12:12:29ZA Google search for “list of US publicly traded companies” turned up a link that referred to a Bloomberg directory with “over 33,000 companies.” The web site of Credit Risk Monitors claims to identify 20,899 public companies in the United...Rees MorrisonBenchmarksRates and cost per hour comparisons between inside lawyers and lawyers at law firms in the United Statestag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834519fb069e2016767f1f136970b2012-06-28T10:49:49-04:002012-06-28T14:49:49Z2012-06-28T14:49:49ZThis blog has often referred to the fully loaded cost per hour of corporate attorneys. It has also from post to post provided data on the effective hourly rate of law-firm partners and associates. More recent data came as to...Rees MorrisonOutside CounselTwo “proven” profitability techniques of law firms that law departments should refusetag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834519fb069e2016767f1ef55970b2012-06-28T10:48:28-04:002012-06-28T14:48:28Z2012-06-28T14:48:28ZAn article in Law Practice, July/August 2012 at 40, describes "15 proven profitability techniques" for today's law firms. Two of them raised my eyebrows and should do the same for general counsel. Under the technique "unbundle operating costs from case...Rees MorrisonOutside CounselFive categories for how your law firms might be rating youtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834519fb069e2017615e7149b970c2012-06-28T10:47:33-04:002012-06-28T14:47:33Z2012-06-28T14:47:33ZIn Law Practice, July/August 2012 at 14, a law firm consultant describes a “client scorecard.” With it, your law firms might rate you on five categories: "level of cooperation”; “how enjoyable your work is”; how profitable your work is; your...Rees MorrisonOutside CounselSomewhat misleading data about law departments and e-billing: leading and laggard countriestag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834519fb069e2017615dd55ef970c2012-06-27T06:25:42-04:002012-06-27T10:25:42Z2012-06-27T10:25:42ZA former executive of two matter management and legal e-billing companies, Jeff Hodge recently wrote a white paper for Bridgeway, one of the leading providers of both kinds of software. Entitled Legal Spend Management: An International Perspective, it discusses at...Rees MorrisonTechnology