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This season, I am THANKFUL for many, many things. Here are a few - Hearst, a company with a strong legacy of doing the right thing by its employee...

In the Consolidated Matter Budgets post, we touched on matters exceeding a budget threshold having more detailed budgets assigned by UTBMS code or ...

In this series, we will talk about both consolidated matter budgets and individual matter budgets.  As always, if you are an Ops in a Box, Legal Ed...

I am a GINORMOUS fan of Atul Gawande’s The Checklist Manifesto.  With irrefutable data drawn from medicine and from commercial construction, he dem...

OCTOBER 12, 2020  In 1981, the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) was founded to give a home to corporate attorneys who were not eligible at th...

As laid out in the evidence in my last post, we are at the end of the golden age of corporate law department as a large standalone service entity b...

Had a great time at SOLID. Enjoyed speaking on the hypothesis that the golden age of the corporate legal department is done and 5 practical steps y...

Recently, I had the pleasure of serving on a panel for the ACC Project, Process and Knowledge Management Interest Group with my colleagues Dan Youn...

This week's topic is metrics. To support executive decision-making and to facilitate understanding with colleagues in finance it's important to wor...

2020 is a year of reckoning. From re-evaluating who is an essential worker, to rethinking infrastructure investment categories, to rooting out and ...

To wrap up this thread on STRATEGIC PLANNING, don’t forget at the end of year to celebrate your accomplishments and share lessons learned.  Collect...

As we head towards fall, our topic has been STRATEGIC PLANNING. Whether as an Operations Launch Check List, an annual refresh, or aligning with new...