Rees Morrison

February 14, 2011 | National Law Journal

Network terminology, not commonly used by law department managers, can help them achieve better results.

By Rees Morrison

8 minute read

October 01, 2012 | Texas Lawyer

Periodically, general counsel wish that they had compensation data so they can compare what they make or what their lawyers make. If someone pushes hard for a raise or the department extends an offer to a new hire, it helps to know market rates. General counsel can buy such data from a few sources, find out pieces of such information online, or they can try to collect data from peer companies.

By Rees Morrison

8 minute read

June 14, 2012 | Daily Report Online

Now that several years have passed since the financial meltdown and the raft of forecasts that the legal industry would transform, did it? No, not by any means.

By Rees Morrison

8 minute read

July 09, 2012 | National Law Journal

National Law Journal columnist Rees Morrison says that, surprisingly, law departments using two kinds of specialty software show worse staffing and spending benchmarks.

By Rees Morrison

8 minute read

November 17, 2008 | National Law Journal

Lawyers on both sides of the law-firm invoice divide speak blithely about "value billing." The general idea is that in-house lawyers will compensate their outside law firms based not on hours worked and hourly rates but on the benefit their legal services bring to the company. Paying only what legal services are worth sounds ideal-until you try to put price tags on value.

By Rees Morrison and Paul Morrison

9 minute read

September 14, 2009 | National Law Journal

A seemingly arcane mathematics, called power laws, will help general counsel and other managers in legal departments understand spending, staffing and other numbers. Power laws explain patterns in many kinds of benchmark and performance data for law departments. They enable you to describe that data accurately and insightfully, and they help you anticipate future events.

By Rees Morrison

7 minute read

May 09, 2013 | New Jersey Law Journal

in coming years, analysts of legal data will gravitate toward more use of the three types of charts discussed in this article: heat maps, mosaics and box plots. Heat maps use color gradients to tell their tale; mosaics rely on relative size to convey proportions and overlap; and box plots summarize the distribution of data.

By Rees Morrison

8 minute read

December 13, 2010 | National Law Journal

What counts as core are the tasks the department accomplishes, including priorities and the reasons for them.

By Rees Morrison

8 minute read

November 09, 2009 | National Law Journal

Much has been said about the balance between what legal departments pay law firms and what they get — the so-called value gap. Yet much remains confused and unclear about that term, value. Here are 12 propositions that sort out key ideas that influence the impasse.

By Rees Morrison

8 minute read

June 11, 2012 | National Law Journal

Business of law remained stable after the meltdown because of financial, managerial, psychological, tech factors.

By Rees Morrison

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