Legal Decoder: Thought Leadership Articles (Indexed)

Many legal industry leaders have kindly expressed that they have enjoyed reading my/Legal Decoder’s thought leadership pieces which can be found on my LinkedIn page and on Legal Decoder’s Blog. Several colleagues in the industry also have asked for a categorical listing of my posts by subject matter with a hyperlink to help cull through the morass of thought leadership pieces available online today. If you click or ctrl + click on the title, you’ll arrive at the desired post:

LEGAL INDUSTRY PERSPECTIVES

• Pricing Uncertainty: The Legal Industry’s $60 BILLION Challenge (October 28, 2016)

• How Lawyers Demonstrate Their Value: A Proposed Analytic Framework (April 17, 2017)

• The Legal Industry’s Road Ahead: Interview conducted by High Performance Counsel (June 23, 2016)

• The “What NOT to do” List in Business (May 27, 2016)

• For the Entrepreneurially-Minded: Thoughts, Realities and Encouragement by an Entrepreneur-in-Progress (February 7, 2016)

LAW FIRM STRATEGY

• Law Firms Using Their Data Edge to Deliver What Clients Want (January 17, 2017)

• Corporate Legal Departments Capitalizing on Substantive Perks from Outside Counsel (February 28, 2016)

 LAW DEPARTMENT OPERATIONS AND MANAGEMENT

• 2016 Law Department Operations Survey: A Blueprint for Law Departments (AND LAW FIRMS!) (December 11, 2016)

• Case Study | Legal Spend Authentication (LSA) Technology (complimentary copy now available) (July 28, 2016)

• Aligning Other Departments with the Corporate Legal Department (August 25, 2015)

• Speaking the Language of the Corporate Legal Department… (June 30, 2015)

• Re-Characterizing the Corporate Legal Department as a Cost (Mitigation) Center (June 18, 2015)

LAW DEPARTMENT STRATEGIC GOALS AND INITIATIVES

• Most Popular Law Department New Year’s Resolutions for 2016 (December 15, 2015)

• Corporate Legal/Claims Departments Thinking Ahead: Law Firm Convergence Next Era Undercurrents (September 5, 2015)

• Corporate Law Departments: Recent Sound Bites from Your ACC-Houston Peers (February 21, 2015)

DATA ANALYTICS AND LEGAL TECHNOLOGY

• The Legal Industry Riding the Data Wave…(April 26, 2016)

• FitBit for Your Legal Department: Evaluating Legal Data Analytics Solutions (January 28, 2016)

• 12 Smart Things In-House Law Departments Can Do with Big Data (April 30, 2015)

• The Emergence of Data Driven Lawyering (February 12, 2015)

• Fighting Fires without Legal Spend Analytics Tools (June 11, 2015)

• Clients Can Drive Outside Counsel’s Workflow Efficiency (May 28, 2015)

• 5 ways data can help optimize your outside counsel staffing mix (March 13, 2015)

• Why You Should Care About Outside Counsel’s Billing Hygiene (May 12, 2015)

• Can Corporate Legal Departments Realize a 766.0% ROI in Technology/Data Solutions? (March 28, 2015)

• In-House Legal Using Technology and Data to Cut the Administrivia (February 25, 2015)

• Getting the Most Out of LegalTech 2015 (January 29, 2015)

BILLING ARRANGEMENTS, RATES, BUDGETING AND OUTSIDE COUNSEL COST MANAGEMENT

• Getting to “Yes” on Alternative Fee Arrangements (August 13, 2015)

• Inside Counsel Intelligently Steering the Budget Process for Outside Counsel (June 5, 2015)

• Outside Counsel’s Hourly Rates: Another Perspective for Legal Department Leaders (April 2, 2015)

• Are Outside Counsel Rate Freezes Translating to Cost Savings? (January 8, 2015)

• Does outside counsel understand your need for budget certainty? (December 17, 2014)

OUTSIDE COUNSEL SELECTION AND EVALUATION

• Legal Departments: Annual Evaluations of Outside Counsel are Changing (December 13, 2015)

• Are Smaller, Boutique Law Firms Right for your Law Department? (October 13, 2015)

• Optimize Value from Outside Counsel’s Junior Personnel (December 24, 2014)

• Engaging a Mega-Firm: Four Simple Inquiries for Law Department Leaders (April 16, 2015)

• Legal Departments: Critically Assess Your Use of Service Partners (December 31, 2014)

• Hiring Outside Counsel on a Moment’s Notice (February 6, 2015)

MANAGEMENT OF OUTSIDE COUNSEL

• 5 Simple (well-received) Ways Inside Counsel Can Capitalize on Newfound Leverage (September 15, 2015)

• The Immaculate Succession: 4 Steps for Legal Departments (July 15, 2015)

• The Evolving Attorney-Client Relationship: Marriage101? (March 20, 2015)

• 3 Ways to Reduce Costs related to Outside Counsel’s Personnel Turnover (March 6, 2015)

• Capitalize on Outside Counsel’s Core Expertise (January 21, 2015)