Legal Operations

Legal Operations

Joe Calve | Corporate Counsel Business Journal

In its “2017 Report on the State of the Legal Market,” Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute examines the decade that began with the dawn of the Great Recession in December 2007. For law firms, it is not a pretty picture: flat demand, declining productivity, growing expenses...

Corporate Counsel

Corporate Counsel Business Journal

The Association of Corporate Counsel’s 2016 Law Department Management Report has a bit of a good news-bad news flavor to it. The good news is that law departments continue to gain “greater access to the inner sanctums where decisions are made,” as ACC puts it in its executive...

Civil Justice

Corporate Counsel Business Journal

There’s a new sheriff in lawsuit land. Displacing California, ranked as the top Judicial Hellhole three of the last four years, is the city of St. Louis, Missouri, which topped the annual Judicial Hellholes report released last month by the American Tort Reform Foundation (ATRF). The #1...