Category: Best Practices

Via the editorial in the June issue of Corporate Legal Times, I learned today about a fascinating organization called The Open Compliance and Ethics Group.  OECG is a not-for-profit consortium that, among other goals, seeks to “provide a flexible and practical best practice framework for...

It’s year-end. Forget about predictions for 2005. What will the legal profession look like in 20 years???  In Law Practice Today, an ABA online magazine, John Tredennick organizes a forum, Looking to the Future: What Changes Do You See Coming in the Next Twenty Years?,...

When it comes to selling, firms increasingly recognize that lawyers need coaching. We can only hope that when it comes to doing the work, law firms recognize the same is true.  Video Trains Lawyers Not to Be Boors in the National Law Journal reports that...

My prior post discussed a recent article suggesting that the search for best practices may be fruitless. I believe that the problem is less in defining best practices and more in the mindset of lawyers.  [Since my prior post, the article, The Quest for the...

I periodically blog on the topic of best practices so was intrigued to read “The Quest for the Best” in the Legal Times (11/15/04, subscription required). In it, management consultant Rees Morrison argues that the quest for best practices is akin to the search for...

Consulting company McKinsey has found that information technology investment by itself has little effect on productivity. Management practices have a much bigger impact on productivity.  When IT lifts productivity in the The McKinsey Quarterly (2004, #4; free registration may be required) reports that “a new...

Chevron spends more than $60 million on outside law firms that handle its litigation reports Refining Litigation (Corporate Counsel, Dec. 2003). A new general counsel who started one year ago has instituted a program to develop best practices in litigation.  Charles James, the new GC,...