In-house Legal Department Trends

Posted August 1, 2015

This year’s Legal Marketing Association annual meeting was held from April 13-15 in San Diego, CA. I just read a summary of one of the sessions, conducted by leading general counsel. The session was summarized by Frank Strong, http://businessoflawblog.com/author/frank-strong/ communications director with the LexisNexis software division located on NC State’s Centennial Campus in Raleigh, NC.

Mr. Strong’s takeaways from the session can be summarized in four key points:

Corporate legal is taking more work in-house.
GCs are consolidating law firm panels.
Efficiency and the metrics to prove it matter.
GCs are willing to pay for value.

Here is a link to the full transcript of Mr. Strong’s article http://businessoflawblog.com/2015/04/lma15-panel-gc/, which provides more details to each of the points above.

Frank Orzo

Co-developer of the original LAWTRAC Law Department Management System (LDMS), Mr. Orzo has been both a witness to—and a participant in—the entire evolution of matter management software. In 1984, he was instrumental in the development and marketing of the first commercially successful networked, PC-based software application for in-house law departments—and he has been deeply involved in developing LAWTRAC products for this market ever since. In 1992, he introduced the first Windows-based, in-house matter management system. In 1995, he became a charter member of the legal industry's Electronic Billing Task Force. In 2001, he managed the development of the industry's first fully web-based LDMS, integrating matter, document, e-billing, outside counsel collaboration, and file room management module in one application.

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