Diversity - Call To Action (CTA) Summit- March 21, 2008 General Mills' Roderick Palmore According to Roderick Palmore, executive vice president, general counsel and chief compliance and risk management officer at General Mills Inc: "The statistics speak for themselves. They say our progress in the profession has been disappointing." Attention Managing Partners: More than 100 general counsel executives of Fortune 500 companies and managing partners of U.S. law firms are convening next month in an effort to come up with specific ways...http://www.gerryriskin.com/law-firm-diversity-diversity-call-to-action-cta-summit.html What do Bear Stearns and Enron have in common- March 17, 2008 The Services Safari Blog posted this yesterday: Calling all Lawyers... The Bear Stearns Collapse The following is an excerpt: Shareholder litigants are going to be talking about this one tonight and tomorrow. Let's recap the fall of Bear Stearns stock price and market value the last year: Stock price last year: $159share - market cap: $18.76 billionStock price last week: $69.75share - market cap: $8.23 billionStock price Friday: $30share - market cap: $4.04 billionAcquisition price Sunday:...http://www.gerryriskin.com/law-firm-economics-what-do-bear-stearns-and-enron-have-in-commo... Answer Your Outsourcing Questions- March 15, 2008 Answer Your Outsourcing Questions Why do some corporations and law firms outsource legal work while others do not What ethical issues arise in outsourcing legal services Who is doing the outsourced work and what qualifications do they have What type of legal work is being outsourced What are the concerns regarding the outsourcing of patent drafting and patent searches What impact, if any, will legal outsourcing have on the elite guild nature of the U.S. legal professionThe...http://www.gerryriskin.com/law-firm-outsourcing-answer-your-outsourcing-questions.html |