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- Dec 24, 2020
- 4 min
Adaptable and Resilient Law Departments Add Value
By Richard G. Stock This is the twenty third in a series of articles about how corporate and government law departments can improve their performance and add measurable value to their organizations. In October, I had the opportunity to interview six Chief Legal Officers about the current state of their law departments and about the outlook for the next six months. Approximately 70% of non-government law departments in Canada have 5 or fewer lawyers. So, I chose from this cros
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- Nov 30, 2020
- 4 min
Thoughts on Pricing Legal Services
By Richard G. Stock This is the twenty-second in a series of articles about how corporate and government law departments can improve their performance and add measurable value to their organizations. The Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) released a comprehensive report benchmarking legal operations in March 2020. The law department maturity model uses three stages to survey 15 functions, with one of these being External Resources Management. The findings were telling. On
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- Oct 29, 2020
- 5 min
Critical Preparations
By Richard G. Stock This is the twenty-first in a series of articles about how corporate and government law departments can improve their performance and add measurable value to their organizations. My first article for Legal Business World was “Negotiating with Law Firms” in early 2018. For the most part, it reported the findings of Altman Weil’s Chief Legal Officer survey (2017). At the time, I concluded that “fair and informed negotiation of operating and financial arrang
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- Sep 28, 2020
- 4 min
Three Principles for Work Intake Post Covid-19
By Richard G. Stock This is the twentieth in a series of articles about how corporate and government law departments can improve their performance and add measurable value to their organizations. Some years ago, I attended a series of conferences to meet individually with US chief legal officers. As a legal management consultant, my goal was to identify the primary management challenges faced by each CLO. My last set of meetings in Tucson covered a broad range of industry se
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