Rees W Morrison

January 23, 2013 | New Jersey Law Journal

Dip your toe into the sea of YouTube recordings, and you can imagine how that medium might help law department managers. Having recently posted a number of short recordings about law-department benchmark metrics, the author here speculates how in-house managers and those in the cottage industry around law departments may come to avail themselves of the same opportunity.

By Rees W. Morrison

7 minute read

November 20, 2006 | National Law Journal

All law departments review their law firm invoices. Few law departments, though, extract management insights from those invoices. In-house counsel mostly view invoices as paperwork to be initialed and processed for payment by someone in accounting. Yet invoices contain many useful insights, and the effort it takes to reap them is modest.

By Rees W. Morrison

8 minute read

June 10, 2013 | National Law Journal

Data skeptics who argue that 'good managers know people, not percentages' risk prejudices and blind spots.

By Rees W. Morrison

8 minute read

July 19, 2004 | National Law Journal

It's all in the planning. Here are six strategies that can help legal departments gaze into the crystal ball.

By Rees W. Morrison

8 minute read

May 21, 2007 | National Law Journal

Commodity work can actually open the door to new and progressive techniques.

By Rees W. Morrison

8 minute read

September 02, 2013 | Texas Lawyer

Out of a typical law department's total budget, 40 cents of every dollar is spent inside while the larger share, the other 60 cents, is spent on outside counsel. Why is that, and what are some insights regarding that well-established ratio?

By Rees W. Morrison

8 minute read

January 17, 2012 | Legaltech News

Consultant Rees W. Morrison shows how collective action among law departments can aid software development and the pooling of law firm data -- to give just two examples.

By Rees W. Morrison

8 minute read

May 09, 2011 | National Law Journal

Nine propositions should provoke discussion about what value means in a corporate legal department.

By Rees W. Morrison

8 minute read

April 02, 2007 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Remember all the publicity about law departments "firing" their law firms? It certainly made the headlines and caused a good deal of hand-wringing at anxious law firms. But the truth is not nearly so stark.

By REES W. MORRISON

9 minute read

November 15, 2011 | Corporate Counsel

A large number of U.S. law departments have licensed the software, but smaller departments mostly have not.

By Rees W. Morrison

5 minute read