LDO Buzz

Are Departments Really Looking for Outside Counsel Via Social Media?

LDO Buzz — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:10:45 +0000

Are Outside Counsel Using SEO and Social Media to Reach GCs?
Shannon Green, CorporateCounsel
And the lawyers’ failures to be digitally current can mean losing business with law departments, says Alexander. “If in-house counsel are going to LinkedIn to try to find attorneys, they’re only seeing about a third of the market that’s available to them,” he says. (read the article)

Obstacles to AFA’s?

LDO Buzz — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:11:07 +0000

Perceptions by law departments of law firms’ obstacles to AFAs; gaps between rankings
Rees Morrison, Law Department Management
Respondents to last year’s ALM metrics survey ranked seven possible internal obstacles for law firms to fully implementing alternative pricing strategies. The leading reason was “Law firms are more comfortable with the billable hour” (2.2 average ranking where 1 is most important). (read the post)

Change a Tire or Start Information Governance Project?

LDO Buzz — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:53:54 +0000

7 tips for starting information governance projects
There will never be a “right” time to start, so don’t wait too long
Mark Diamond, InsideCounsel
One general counsel recently told me he would rather change a tire in the rain than work on a records management project. I can understand his reluctance. Considering the tar pit of corporate compliance, records management, litigation readiness, data privacy, e-mail retention and other information governance projects have a tendency to get stuck.

Follow these tips to avoid getting caught in the muck:

1. Don’t get stuck before you start: (read the article)

Security Tips & Free App for Android Mobile Devices.

LDO Buzz — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:41:02 +0000

Security Tips from CIO.com Used by a Free Android App
Christine Torralba, AndroidAuthority.com
With the open source nature of Android, it is recommended that each smartphone and tablet user should be a little wary about the security of their device as well as the stored information on the device. Especially with the huge number of hackers and other individuals who have fraudulent motives, it is important to safeguard personal information on mobile devices. (read the post)

Next Generation Knowledge Management with Kiiac and GettingLegalDone.

LDO Buzz — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:30:22 +0000

ACC Brings the Future to its Members or The ACC KIIAC System Goes Live Toby Brown, 3 Geeks and a Law Blog
Starting today, members will have access to ten document templates, which are contracts and agreements that in-house counsel would use on a regular basis. Kingsley has taken volumes of sample documents for each document type, analyzed them and made standardized versions available. Not only that, members can view alternative clauses within each document, enabling them to custom build documents, utilizing any clause components they chose. Finally, members can take documents they have received and compare them against the standard document types to see if any clauses are missing or highly variable from the standard. (read the post)

GettingLegalDone, another ACC partner, a contract management tool for small law departments, has the Kiiac interface built-in.

Should Departments Make Spend Data Available to Firms?

LDO Buzz — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:51:28 +0000

Turn to a law firm to analyze your spending data and perhaps combine it with similar data from other companies
Rees Morrison, Law Department Management
An innovative law firm with reach in a defined area of representation could amass data, hone analytic and presentation skills, and develop an offering for the market with formidable competitive advantages. Meanwhile, law departments who make their information available will approach alternative fee arrangements and budgets more confidently. (read the post)

Security Questions Departments Should Ask Their Firms.

LDO Buzz — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 15:17:48 +0000

How Secure Are Law Firms’ Computer Networks?
Catherine Dunn, Law Technology News
How can in-house counsel get a better idea of how secure a law firm is? Friedberg offers a dozen security questions that corporations should ask their law firms.

STROZ FRIEDBERG’S SECURITY QUESTIONS CORPORATIONS SHOULD ASK THEIR LAW FIRMS

1. Do the managing partner and the executive committee champion and drive a culture of security? (read the article)

Nominations Now Open for ILTA’s 2012 Distinguished Peer Awards.

LDO Buzz — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:02:21 +0000

Announcing ILTA’s 2012 Distinguished Peer Awards is Now Accepting Nominations
International Legal Technology Association
(click here to apply)

Looking For Law Dept Operations Profiles for LDOBuzz.

LDO Buzz — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:07:12 +0000

Jason Emanis
LDOBuzz.com has a new feature-tab, LDO Profiles. This will be the destination for our industry’s law department operations professional profiles. Our first up, Lisa Girmscheid, Rockwell Automation, Inc. (see her profile)

How about you? If you would like to add your professional profile to LDO Buzz.com, I’ll ask you to answer 10 easy questions, I’ll weave together a profile for your review, then, with your approval, I’ll post it with the others on LDO Profiles. Email Me with the subject line, “ldobuzz profile.”

Legal Expense for High-profile Hacking Investigation?

LDO Buzz — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:26:20 +0000

Legal expense management news for February 17, 2012
Jim Boeckman, Right-Tasking
How much are the legal fees for a high-profile hacking investigation, involving senior management and many other issues? $200 million and counting – an astounding figure, IMHO. And it sounds like no one has any idea how much it will cost in the end: “The bill was substantially higher than News Corp had expected, and the company said that it could not forecast what its expenditure would be on legal fees and external advisers on the hacking scandal for the full year.” (read the post)