The Point I’m qualified to discern fat-vs-muscle in Legal spending from firsthand experience on both sides of the lawyer / client table. I’ve practiced business law for 25 years, and I ran divisions as a general manager and then served as an M&A executive for 12 years. This Matters To…
This morning The Boeing Company announced that Dennis Muilenburg had resigned as its Chief Executive Officer. This follows the loss of 346 lives in two separate crashes in 2018 and 2019, and allegations that Boeing had withheld from FAA regulators, and from airline customers and their pilots — vital information…
Technology that improves the quality and efficiency of legal work will be stymied as long as hourly billing prevails among attorneys. At least that’s my belief. Why do I say that? Hourly quotas for attorneys encourage more lawyer time per task; This motivates a proliferation of lawyers on any given…
10 years into my legal career I accepted a corporate client’s offer to run one of its divisions as a general manager. Only by leaving law practice and becoming an executive did I learn how to protect a company from its legal risks. This protection has two elements: First Element:…