In this interview from Corporate Counsel Business Journal, Andre G. Bouchard, who recently retired from his position as Chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery, talks about his years in private practice in Delaware, his work on the court, and his new role at Paul Weiss.
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In this piece from Ross Booher and Tim Haley of Latitude, which provides talent to law firms and legal departments for interim roles such as secondments, despite the generally favorable view of secondments, the reality often is quite different.
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Based on my research, during the past five years at least 90 different U.S. organizations published reports based on 190 surveys of U.S. law firms or law departments. That plethora of legal-industry surveys addressed a wide swath of management data. An analysis of the topics finds that compensation, e-discovery and outside counsel cost control were frequent topics, but all manner of other data inquiries were also carried out. The sponsors were primarily publishers, vendors of software or services, bar associations and consultants. At least half a dozen law firms and several trade groups also launched surveys.
Continue Reading Surveying the Surveys: There are many in the legal world, and the quality is uneven
Thomson Reuters recently released the first edition of a new semiannual report focused on legal department operations. It’s called the Legal Tracker LDO Index Benchmarking & Trends Report, which puts it squarely under the company’s e-billing and matter management brand, Legal Tracker. (Tracker evolved out of Thomson’s 2010 acquisition of Serengeti and has become the most widely used e-billing platform in the world.)
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