Interesting post in Rees Morrison’s Law Department Management blog. Thoughts on Why Law Departments Retain Outside Counsel discusses several theories. First, brains vs brawn. This theory postulates that inside counsel handle the routine stuff but turn to outside counsel for more challenging work. Second, the overflow theory. Here, outside counsel are retained whenever there is too much work… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Selection of counsel
Subscribe to Selection of counsel RSS FeedWhoever Said “Good Grammar Costs Nothing” Hasn’t Read This
Posted in Client Service, Selection of counselDan Hull of What About Clients is the leader of the Good-Writing-Is-A-Necessity Bandwagon. See some of his posts here. But kudos to Michelle Golden of Golden Practices for keeping this critical topic front and center with her post highlighting the cost Rogers Communications, Inc. from a misplaced comma. (The cost is $2.13 million, by the… Continue Reading
New Targets For Clients
Posted in Selection of counselThanks to my friend Dan Hull at What About Clients for introducing (at least to me) the concept of “muscle boutiques.” Top talent, small firms, lower overhead, no deadwood. Why should clients pay for those unprofitable offices in luxury cities? Do you get more value per person from Navy Seals or several battalions of infantry? … Continue Reading
Selecting Outside Counsel
Posted in Selection of counselCheck out this post by Tom Collins at morepartnerincome. Tom refers to an article by Bob Burns at Brouse McDowell in Akron, Ohio. Bob is a former inhouse attorney and has both selected and been selected, so he knows of what he speaks. The article says “I believe that a business should consider the ‘Five… Continue Reading
NBA Centers Illustrate The Value Of Being Big
Posted in Client Service, Selection of counselThe Greatest American Lawyer has a very interesting post titled “Being Big Provides No Intrinsic Value To The Client At All.” GAL posits this question: So what value is there to the client in being big? Oh sure, big law has developed a method to bill clients more hours and to drive its own internal… Continue Reading
Clients: Are You A Big Fish In The Pond?
Posted in Selection of counselAre you really important to your law firm? If not, might you be better off by being a premier client at a different firm? Those are two questions raised by Rees Morrison’s post “Be primary to a regional firm rather than tertiary to a national powerhouse” in his Law Department Management blog. His conclusion: If… Continue Reading