In more than 20 years of working in the legal business—the first third just working hard, the second third as an aspiring leader, and the last third at the director level—I’ve learned a thing or two about leadership, about operations, and about people and how to lead them. So, it frustrates me when I hear about a leadership vacuum literally...
There’s been debate throughout the legal industry about which software product is the superior tool for conducting technology-assisted review (TAR). I’m no data scientist. In fact, I’m not a scientist at all. I’m not a programmer or a linguist. No PhD; no computer science degree; Heck, I’m not even a particularly highly qualified technical person. Nope. I’m just an operations...
It seems like everywhere you turn today people are asking who is going to lead innovation. People frequently ask me what’s the best way to drive the adoption of project management principles in the legal business, and my answer has invariably been that any real change must be driven by clients (i.e., the corporations shelling out $300 billion annually for...
I like oatmeal. It has been around forever and I eat it a lot. Project managers have also been around forever. When they built the pyramids in Egypt or the Great Wall in China there was likely someone there who planned, directed, monitored and controlled the work. Although clearly the workers back then were not anything like the organized labor...
Throughout all of recorded human history –indeed, even before we began to record it—communication has been an issue. Early humans carved cave walls to allow others to know things. I’m sure that some among them thought that such carvings were quite radical at the time. And today, many people find the current scriveners—those who incessantly post their thoughts, meals, pets,...
Corporate legal operations folks need to pay attention to this Court Decision One of the things that has always puzzled me is how some of the smartest people in the world could behave so irresponsibly when it comes to legal matters. I’m not a lawyer, and granted, I’ve worked around lawyers long enough that some of their tendencies if not...
As far as I can tell, at the most basic level, all organizations exist to do two things: activities intended to sustain daily operations, and activities designed to improve and grow the business. I don’t know any organization in which the purpose or goal is to drive the business into the ground. For clarity, the first of these things, operations,...
Most CEOs and corporate leaders would say that a core mission of any company is to maximize shareholder value and/or protect the company’s assets. With nearly every “document” in the world being created on a computer today and a company’s information clearly being one if it’s assets, why wouldn’t information governance or, as they say in corporate legal circles, compliance,...
As part of a training series within his organization, a good friend recently asked me to speak to up-and-coming leaders about time management. I begin to research the issue and I keep coming across materials suggesting that teaching time management is a waste of time. The fact is –and I guess I already knew this and my research merely confirms...
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