The Point 1. For decades, corporate Legal has offered two responses to spiraling costs: (1) “Bring more work in-house” — substitute less expensive, generalist lawyers as full-time employees to whom you pay salary & benefits, for more expensive, specialist law firm attorneys who you pay by the hour, and (2)…
The Point 1. The corporate law function costs too much and takes too long. 2. Most corporate law functions knowingly accept material amounts of waste in two major forms: (1) Rather than fixed fees agreed between lawyer and client in advance of the work, most pay outside lawyers by the…
The Point “It’s the front-line people who know what’s going on, not the people with their feet up on the desks in their offices”. So writes Alan Weiss, the clearest thinker on professional services delivery I’ve ever met. Yet, in the context of critical enterprise risk management, the odds are…