Although dramatic changes in law’s economic landscape have conferred far greater bargaining leverage and purchasing power on clients, in budget discussions with outside law firms, many in-house counsel just aren’t asking the right questions. Clients simply cannot optimize budget planning and management without knowing the answers to these five questions: Has the Budget Process Included Input… Continue Reading
Monthly Archives: September 2015
Manterruption III: Reader Responses & Connecting the Dots
Posted in Legal Project ManagementIn several recent At the Intersection posts, we commented on some important social research discussing men’s pervasive tendency to interrupt women in group meetings or settings where the power stakes were high (“manterruption”) and to appropriate women’s ideas as their own (“bropropriation”). We did not conduct this social research; we just reported on it. Yet these… Continue Reading
ValoremNext: A Better Mousetrap…And Beyond
Posted in Legal Department ManagementTwo lawyers well known for their innovation, and perhaps for their iconoclasm, are going beyond trying to invent a better mousetrap. Today they trotted out the design for a new mouse. Jeff Carr and Pat Lamb have long collaborated on efforts to reshape the law firm-legal department relationship, and in so doing have not hesitated… Continue Reading
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