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Law Department Highlights, Trends and Myths

BY Daniel J. DiLucchio
December 21, 2010

For the 11th consecutive year, Altman Weil has conducted a Chief Legal Officer (CLO) Survey on issues of importance in managing corporate law departments. The purpose of these surveys is to capture current thinking of CLOs and share the results with the legal profession, enabling both corporate law departments and law firms to benefit from the surveys. This Survey was conducted in September and October of 2010, and contains responses from 174 CLOs. This article discusses selected results of the recent survey. It makes comparisons to prior surveys, and explores both trends and myths of the marketplace.

Dramatic Change

There has been dramatic change in the legal profession in the past decade ' accelerated especially in the last few years by the great recession. Interestingly, most of the impact from those changes has been absorbed by law firms. Corporate law departments ' as clients ' often are the drivers of change, but their own organizations remain largely the same. For the most part, law departments look exactly like they did 10 or even 20 years ago. Staffing may be greater or lesser, e-billing might now be installed, but the organization, structure and roles of in-house staff remain similar, if not identical to that of the past decade.

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