Is Cost Control Really a General Counsel Priority?
The gap between what general counsels say and do about controlling outside counsel cost continues. At least that’s my take reading the Corporate Counsel magazine’s Best Legal Department 2009 issue. Best Legal Department — 2009 has three feature-length stories about the 2009 winner (The Hartford)...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
2 min read
New WSGR Term Sheet Generator – an Innovative Online Service
In a tough economy with daily BigLaw lays-off announcements, it’s nice to see a firm innovate to help clients and prospects. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati (WSGR) announced today a new online service, a term sheet generator. The WSGR Term Sheet Generator, “will generate a...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
2 min read
Contract Drafting for the 21st Century: A Conversation Between Ken Adams and Ron Friedmann
I met Ken Adams of AdamsDrafting several years ago. Ken is a practicing lawyer turned contract guru and consultant. He writes a great blog about contract drafting, from nitty-gritty language stuff to big-picture issues. He’s devoted a lot of time to thinking about shortcomings in...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
14 min read
What’s a JD Worth?
Last November I wrote JD as Job Credential for non-Law Jobs: Mistaking Cause and Effect?. That post led to an interesting e-mail exchange with Doug Cornelius, a lawyer and blogger (KMSpace and, as of 2009, at Compliance Building). With Doug’s permission, I posted our exchange...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
1 min read
Recent Twitter Posts
I’ve been using Twitter (http://twitter.com/ronfriedmann) for a few months now. I post only items of professional interest. Here is a roundup of posts. Rees Morrison blogs that the Gap outsources legal work to India, citing ACC Docket. His post at http://bit.ly/14Ra9 UK lawyers skeptical about...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
5 min read
Autonomy to Acquire Interwoven
Autonomy announced on 21 January 2009 that it will acquire Interwoven. The Autonomy press release spells out the rationale for the acquisition: “The combination of Autonomy’s Meaning Based Computing technologies (IDOL) (with its ability to understand content) with Interwoven’s suite of products (focussed [sic] on...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
2 min read
Legal Market Upheaval – A One-Act Play
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 in an innovative, multi-billion dollar company. It’s late December 2008, so relatively quiet. The CFO...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
6 min read
Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) Prospects in a Tough Economy
Earlier this month I wrote a post Taking the LPO Temperature: Warm, Getting Hot, But Doubts. A new article in Corporate Counsel about legal process outsourcing deserves its own discussion. Will Tough Economy Push Companies to Outsource Legal Work? (Corporate Counsel, 22 Dec 2008) by...
Ron Friedmann,
17 years ago
3 min read
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