I recently found an excellent inhouse counsel perspective on why litigation risk analysis and decision trees are critical tools for litigators and lawyers working on settlements.  Settlement Perspectives is a…

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has proposed a new standard for public disclosure of pending lawsuits. This raises interesting legal technology and management questions for general counsels.  Reporting Rights…

Instead of a New Year prediction, here is a fictional account about how the legal market revolution began. [References to articles and blog posts appear below.]  The Setting: CEO’s office…

My prior post A Former GC Explains Why BigLaw Keeps Getting Business prompted a comment from Pam Woldow of Altman Weil, herself a former GC. She reports that law departments…

A former general counsel of a $100mil company wrote to me privately recently commenting on my blog post The Remarkable Inaction of General Counsels in the Face of Crisis and…

In the Web 2.0 world, companies interact and learn from their customers via the web. What lesson can we draw for the legal market?  The Secrets of Marketing in a…

We are facing the worst economic crisis since the Depression. Corporations are slashing budgets. General counsel are under pressure. What are they doing? More of the same.  Law Department Budget…

Another day, another survey, this one of law departments. American Lawyer Magazine, Legal Onramp, and law department consultant Rees Morrison produced an interesting, forward-looking survey.  The Change Agenda: Looking Ahead…