The Point You have two important, but different, types of resources to address legal issues facing your business: 1. LAWYERS: For advice that requires legal judgment to guide business decisions, your company needs accomplished individual attorneys (see July 27, 2022 post). You can’t get legal judgment from an automated platform.…
The Point There’s a lot more to the corporate law function than what lawyers do. But most of the legal profession doesn’t recognize that, and client companies suffer the resulting costs of Legal’s labor-intensive, technology-averse work methods. This Matters to Your Business Jeff Carr is a legendary general counsel who…
The Point An earlier generation was raised on the saying: “Nobody ever got fired for choosing IBM”. It still holds sway among too many general counsels I’ve known in their strong prejudice favoring AmLaw 100 or AmLaw 200 law firms as a hedge against second-guessing if something goes wrong on…