Sentences with phrase «one's law department»

Three areas listed after them involve a fair amount of law department management.

This is apparent to one who examines the ongoing evolution of corporate law departments.

In law departments of up to six or so attorneys, the general counsel may directly supervise all of the attorneys.

She was responsible for law department management, compliance, governance, risk management, and operations.

Take a trip to your local family law courthouse or the family law department within the local courthouse.

«What we really try to focus on is how can we transition in - house law departments from call centres to value - added providers of legal services,» he said.

He focuses on law department consulting and data analytics for lawyers.

Still, I imagine that these companies must also retain lawyers on staff so that they can attract law firms and corporate law departments as clients.

Even the largest law departments with sophisticated legal operations capability find it difficult to maintain currency with the latest offerings and thinking.

Instead of drawing its conclusions from what corporate law departments said they were doing or planned to do, its findings have always been based on what they actually did.

«The business is expecting the same type of reporting, the same type of cost predictability, the same level of strategic planning from law departments,» he says.

More than 300 law department leaders from corporations and government completed the survey.

These conditions have led to an unprecedented level of activism by law departments.

So if law departments do have money and they're not giving it to law firms, where is it going?

She also has asked the county law department to take any legal action necessary to protect the property and safety of county residents and businesses along the shoreline.

At the same time, even the worst surveys suggest that, at a given point in time, 60 % of law departments do not intend to decrease their spend with external counsel.

I have witnessed this in a number of national employment law departments over recent years.

We helped law departments plan strategic initiatives, develop and roll out policies and procedures, implement systems, initiate cost - savings programs, and develop outside counsel management programs.

To measure the outcome of these efficiency efforts, many law departments use metrics to objectively quantify, analyze, and report on their improvements in performance over time.

Students learn how leading law departments use process and technology to deliver legal services with new levels of predictability and efficiency.

Our study looked at women and minority lawyers in law firms and corporate law departments who had successful mentoring relationships.

Managers who try to reach the summit of an effectively integrated global law department must climb over each of these.

We should expect more law departments to adopt these measures over time.

Our attorneys have rich experience across a wide range of practice areas, and practice as peers in leading law departments and law firms.

But I do think an additional, underrated factor might be a high degree of uncertainty within law departments about what their options actually are.

In 2012, 46 % of law departments increased their internal budgets, compared to 28 % reporting a decrease.

Although corporate law departments take great care in initially selecting attorneys with superior legal judgment, little attention is given to enhancing legal judgment after attorneys join a legal department.

And it certainly makes sense for smaller law departments which do not have the resources to hire top talent in all substantive areas in which legal work is done.

Everything I just wrote about law departments could have also been written about most law firms.

However, it is often loosely delivered or absent altogether in most law departments.

Corporate law departments face budget pressure and demand more value from their law firms.

Because data is presented in fully customizable charts and graphs, clients can now easily prepare law department budgets and executive level presentations.

While it's encouraging to note that a majority of law departments now have a formal metrics program in place, the top 3 metrics are still cost - driven.

In addition, four per cent of the Canadian law department members are persons with disabilities.

These changes will happen first in those law firms and law departments where leaders recognize that the era of the amateur manager relying on a good legal mind is over.

Summer associates are invited to participate in all firm activities including litigation and public law department meetings.

For law department managers, the levels of numbers they can make use of are countless.

However, many law departments only use budgets for the tactical value of tracking and controlling matter cost.

I agree that there is still some resistance to change among law departments and corporate clients.

They include the academic law departments who really should be taking up the challenge of integrating technology into their courses.

It's the first year for the program, which was created to recognize law department efforts and firm and client collaborations under the banner of the ACC Value Challenge.

Today, corporate law departments still use the transaction view for supply chain structure.

Moreover, we regularly talk to law firm and law department clients and friends, our software business partners, and friends at legal providers.

In the next 12 months, 29 % of law departments expect to decrease their use of outside counsel, compared to 14 % that plan to increase outside counsel use.

The design, budget and implementation of a litigation response plan should include a lot more stakeholders than law department staff (if you have one) and trusted outside counsel.

Of the surveyed companies, 66 percent reported an increase in spending on law department compensation and benefits.