In-house Attorneys: You May Need to Keep Timesheets
TGIF! Timesheets? I gave those up when I left Biglaw, you might be thinking. As a recent case points out, you may need to keep timesheets – especially if your company hopes to recover the…
TGIF! Timesheets? I gave those up when I left Biglaw, you might be thinking. As a recent case points out, you may need to keep timesheets – especially if your company hopes to recover the…
Why do law departments continue to pay higher hourly rates? The Economist, June 28, 2014 at 11, writes about higher education’s future and observes that with colleges, it “suffers from Baumol’s disease – the tendency of…
Selecting Law Firms to Propose on Your Work By James J. Stapleton, Managing Principal of LEAP Legal I have known some very successful law firm partners who feel that the most important question during the proposal…
RFP for Outside Counsel – Basic Elements Every RFP for outside counsel contains some basic elements, as follows: Description of services (what your company needs). Desired pricing format (fixed, time & expense, contingent, hybrid, etc. and…
By James J. Stapleton, Managing Principal of LEAP Legal Here’s how law firms want you to engage in selecting a new law firm. They want you to: 1) Be exposed to their firm in a variety…
By James J. Stapleton, Managing Principal of LEAP Legal Like many people who work on behalf of in-house legal departments, I started my career with major law firms. Over the past decade, I was responsible…
Some wise words from Canada: Law departments across Canada should see themselves, and be seen company-wide, as integral parts of their corporate clients’ businesses. As in-house counsel, we can provide much more value if we’re…
Billable hours are oft-referenced as the bane of the law firm lawyer – will law departments insistence on alternative fee arrangements help make them a thing of the past? Facing increasing budget pressure, more corporate…
How does your legal department buy legal services? GSK has changed its ways – and its methods could be employed by law departments around the world: Silvia Hodges Silverstein, adjunct professor at Columbia Law School,…
Whether you are a GC or a rank and file in-house counsel, you should be concerned with legal department productivity: Efficiency is about doing things right, but productivity is about doing the right things, according…