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Mar 29
4 min

Priorities and Backlogs

By Richard G. Stock This is the twenty fifth in a series of articles about how corporate and government law departments can improve their performance and add measurable value to their organizations.. Inside counsel always have more than enough work to do. In contrast to how law firms arrange the distribution of work to associates and paralegals, corporate counsel usually do more than 90 % of the work on a given matter, regardless of its complexity and regardless of the experi

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Feb 10
4 min

Allocate Time Strategically in 2021

By Richard G. Stock This is the twenty fourth in a series of articles about how corporate and government law departments can improve their performance and add measurable value to their organizations. Six years ago, the December 20th issue of The Economist featured a piece that asked the question “Why is Everyone So Busy?”, sub-titled in search of lost time. The article was thoughtful yet frustrating because it did not offer any real solution. There is no path to balance, it s

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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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