Lawdable
"Lawdable is a forum for in-house and managing attorneys to discover and share information related to the issues they face on a daily basis. Through a 'best practices' approach, the blog provides commentary from experts in a wide range of areas, citing specific client examples of progressive and innovative (or 'laudable') initiatives that have helped legal departments become more efficient and economical without sacrificing quality. More specifically, it focuses on national issues and general commentary on the use of attorneys in a nontraditional manner, issues affecting legal departments on a daily basis and how both new and tested approaches can offer solutions, litigation support and e-discovery, best practices regarding technology implementation and efficiency training methods for teams of attorneys, and the work-life balance sought by attorneys."
Author: Jane H. Allen is the president and founder of Brentwood, Tenn.-based Counsel on Call; Chicago-based Katherine A. Erwin is Counsel on Call's director of candidate development; Dennis McKinnie directs the Atlanta and Charlotte, N.C., offices of Counsel on Call; Candice L. Reed directs the Brentwood, Tenn., office of Counsel on Call; Brentwood, Tenn.-based Richard H. Stout is the director of Counsel on Call's litigation support division.
Blawg Related Categories: Careers • Women in the Law • Work/Life Balance • In-house Counsel • Law Firms • Contract Attorneys • Trials & Litigation • Attorney Fees • Consultant
Recent Posts from Lawdable
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Don't Hit The Snooze Button On ESI Management
There’s almost nothing like the words ‘record retention policy’ to quickly put a group of grown adults asleep. If you’re lucky enough to be placed on the team to formulate said policy, you probably wonder…
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Cost Predictions Rely Equally on Technology and People
I’m a little late on this one, but this article outlines the use of technology to budget and control the cost of a document review project and could be helpful to some folks. It's sometimes…
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Legal Savings Needed - STAT!
In early January, I read an interesting piece by Susan Hackett of ACC wherein she laid out a few tips for GC’s on weathering the economic storm. Although things are beginning to look up (for…
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Do You Like Podcasts?
We're trying to gather some anecdotal information on the popularity of podcasts... internally, people either love 'em or hate 'em, are regular downloaders or seemingly allergic to an mp3 or Real Time player. It's pretty interesting,…
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Lessons Learned Can Benefit Chinese Drywall Defense
Asbestos then tobacco then pharmaceuticals. Each an extensive and expensive litigation. Now comes Chinese drywall, which could very well be the next tidal wave. We have already been out in the field working on the…
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A Valuable Attorney: The Meaning Is Changing
Last week, I met with a wonderful attorney who has been in-house with one of our clients for several years, doing primarily employment work. She said she was recently offered a position to lead a new…
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Susskind: Why Law Firms Have To Change
Richard Susskind has been one of the more outspoken voices on the economies of the legal profession in recent years, authoring two books on the subject. Today, he has a post on the ABA’s Legal…
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Pricing In The Alternative
The “alternative” in an Alternative Fee Arrangement (AFA) can be defined as “affording a choice between two or more things…mutually exclusive so that if one is chosen the other must be rejected.” In the arena…
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Alternative Fee Arrangements Need Precise Understanding
There’s little question Alternative Fee Arrangements (AFAs) have gained in popularity in recent years, and that interest seems to only be increasing. In a recent survey of in-house attorneys we conducted in Atlanta, 46% of…
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Pilot Program to 'Play Nice' in E-Discovery
As we all know by now, in 2006 the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure were amended to standardize how litigants should deal with their electronically stored information (ESI). Soon thereafter, courts at both the Federal…