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Planning for Success: Top 10 tips for strategic – and successful – law department budgeting
Although law departments often tend to think of budgets as primarily tactical tools, budgets do have significant strategic value – as long as they’re the product of thorough planning and proper implementation. When thinking about implementing a budget process, it’s necessary to...
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No Dumping: Data should be shaped for lawyers, not shoveled at them
Data, for managers of lawyers, is only as good as someone can grasp it and learn from it. A graphic plot is not the only choice. When you present data to lawyers, you can choose among five primary modes: text, lists, tables, charts or infographics. The message of this article is not at all that...
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Should Law Departments Rely on Survey Findings? GCs should consider whether differences are statistically meaningful
Surveys often make much of comparisons, such as the average number of lawyers for every billion dollars of revenue between various industries, but when are those differences meaningful? If the average for retail is 3 lawyers per billion and the average for consumer products is 3.5, is it...
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