Seyfarth Shaw’s Robert Milligan and iDS’s Jim Vaughn look at discovery and digital forensics in the age of the cloud. Continue Reading
Will It Be Easy to Implement and Upgrade Your ELM Solution?
Legal departments should consider service and methodologies, as well as the technology itself.
When corporate legal departments consider their options for enterprise legal management (ELM) systems and providers, it’s easy to focus on dazzling product demos. However, an ELM technology provider is more than just a software manufacturer. Continue Reading
Get Analytical, Get Better Legal Results
When creating a vendor management process, consider these best practices.
Every company wants the best results from their legal partners, but when evaluating the performance of multiple outside law firms, it can be difficult to know where to start. Continue Reading
Now in Aisle 3: A More Efficient Legal Department
Walmart’s Alan Bryan, recipient of the ACC Legal Ops Professional of the Year Award, discusses the evolution of his company’s legal operations and procurement functions. Continue Reading
The Ever-Increasing Responsibilities of Legal Operations Staff
When I got back from CLOC last month, I was amazed at the various roles and responsibilities shouldered by legal operations staff. Still one of the fastest growing roles in legal departments, the responsibilities often assigned to these teams are varied and all over the map in terms of impact on the business, not just the legal department. Continue Reading
CLOC Agendalytics
Given the profound changes roiling the market for corporate legal services, it can be tough to tell just what makes today’s in-house law department tick. The agenda for CLOC’s Annual Corporate Legal Operations Institute, dissected in this infographic from Corporate Counsel Business Journal, isn’t a bad place to start. Continue Reading
Benchmarking Spurs Creative Thinking on Fees
LexisNexis’ Kris Satkunas looks at data-driven insights into legal departments’ billing and law firm consolidation activities.
CCBJ: The LexisNexis annual CounselLink report has become a useful benchmarking tool for legal departments. Tell us a little about its history and how it’s being used. Continue Reading
#MeToo and the Workplace: What’s Changed – and What Needs to Change
Today’s headlines point to why it is critical to review and strengthen company harassment programs.
In the current climate of #MeToo and the Time’s Up movement, many employers are scrambling to answer a variety of questions relating to harassment in the workplace. Chief among these are what’s changed, and what changes do we need to make now? Continue Reading
Helping the Client Achieve Its Objective: Saving Lives
CCBJ: Your career followed an interesting and varied path to the Gates Foundation. Can you tell us about that?
Keith Matthews: Professionally, my first job out of college was as a credit analyst and later a middle-market loan officer at what is now JPMorgan Chase. With that background – and with a finance degree from college – I knew early on in my career that I wanted to focus on transactional work. Continue Reading
Easy Hacks for Better Document Review
There are a few simple tricks you can try to improve the pace, accuracy and consistency of your document review team.
1. Batch by Thread
If you aren’t reviewing only the most inclusive email (the longest email in the conversation that includes all other emails in the conversation), then batching by thread complete is essential to fast and consistent review. Continue Reading