Law Roundtable

The General Counsel of LG Electronics spoke at the InsideCounsel SuperConference on May 25 th. I note three of his practices. One is that his lawyers train ad agencies on the basics of intellectual property, such as trademarks and copyrights....

With posts here and there about the odds of an internal promotion to the top legal spot compared to a recruitment of a new person to that position, let’s pause to state the shaky reasons why recruitment happens more than...

An article several years ago laid out an organizing framework for knowledge in the form of a basic four-cell matrix. Visualize theory and practice as labels for the two rows and content and process as labels for the two columns....

One panelist at the InsideCounsel SuperConference was the General Counsel of Johnson Controls, Jerry Okarma. His 55-lawyer legal department has a standardized on-boarding process for lawyers around the world. Otherwise, he said, there would be lots of different understandings. There...

I culled the ideas, and much of the phrasing, of what follows from an email message dated Aug. 16th from ValueNotes. In the last four to five years, the Philippines has emerged as a leading LPO destination, second only to...

Tim Corcoran, who recently left Altman Weil to join HubbardOne, posted a meaty piece on what he reads. In the midst were four blogs related to legal departments, including those of the ACC and Law.com. Third, Tim brought to my...

The General Counsel of LG Electronics spoke at the InsideCounsel Super Conference on May 25 th. The subsidiary he serves racks up $6 billion in sales yet has only five lawyers. He said there was no headquarters legal group so...

It would be an easy matter, technically, to log all calls made by a lawyer to a client within the company and all intra-company calls from clients to the lawyer. This recording would disregard all content, storing and aggregating only...

Back in March of 2008, the ACLA/CLANZ Legal Department Benchmarking Report 2008 delivered the results of a survey of more than 125 companies and government agencies that together spend over a billion Australian dollars on lawyers each year. The report...

“Organizational routines can be defined as repetitive, recognizable patterns of interdependent actions, carried out by multiple actors.” This definition, from Admin. Sci. Q., March 2003 at 95, seems very close to the ones I have fashioned for the term “processes”...