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Top Issues for Law Department Managers

by Editors on December 21, 2009

If you are interested in management issues of general counsel, including the firms they retain, you should find something interesting among these ten best on Rees Morrison’s blog, LawDepartmentManagementblog.com. Click on the links below to read the full posts.

- Online dispute resolution (the double-blind method) and benefits for legal departments (Oct. 20, 2009)

- Further ruminations on value delivered by law firms (Oct. 21, 2009)

- An online decision tree for import/export law, and the potential for similar systems (Oct. 21, 2009)

- Why law firms agree to volume discounts and thus the leverage legal departments enjoy (Oct. 22, 2009)

- Four techniques — staffing models — when you manage a law firm on a matter (Oct. 22, 2009)

- Free benchmark report; total legal spend per regional lawyer compared for EMEA and Asia-Pacific (Oct. 22, 2009)

Email Rees at rees@reesmorrison.com if you would like a copy of the 2009 Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) benchmark survey or the Asia-Pacific (APAC) survey. Plus some inter-regional comparisons on metrics.

- Drawbacks of a separate group that only audits and reviews bills (Oct. 25, 2009)

- Principal determinants of the number of direct reports to a general counsel (Oct. 27, 2009)

- Definition of a strategic plan and some implications for general counsel (Oct. 29, 2009)

- Shortcomings of the ubiquitous benchmark metric, lawyers per billion of revenue (Oct. 30, 2009)

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