Experience and dozens of engagements with corporate legal indicate that most law departments fall between somewhere between the third and fourth levels of the corporate legal maturity model. Few organizations fit squarely in any one stage, but we find most in-house...
Month: March 2015
6 Staggering Big Data Statistics Pave the Way for eDiscovery
Note: The following is a guest post from Daryn Teague, who provides support to the litigation software product line within the LexisNexis software division. The impact of electronic discovery on our industry is often measured by legal professionals according to the...
Benchmarking Corporate Legal Department Maturity
“Most of us spend time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important,” according to Stephen R. Covey. The sentiment of the late author was reflected in the third habit – put first things first – of his bestselling book, 7 Effective Habits of Highly...
Hot Legal Links and the Top 10 Posts You Might Have Missed
In the year that’s passed since we launched this little blog, we’ve been amazed at the growth in readership. In 12 months or so, this blog has earned hundreds of thousands page views (and that continues to grow). A huge “thank you” is in order for reading, engaging,...
Monica Bay: You Can’t Practice Law without Technology
Three formative early notions may well have shaped her legal and legal reporting career. First, as an "temp" secretary and paralegal at a law firms while paying her own way through law school, she recalls “what it was like to be invisible as a non-lawyer." She...