The Higher Use of Lawyers in a Data- and Tech-Enabled World[As published in Corporate Counsel, on 18 September 2019; based on Susan's and Karl's presentation at Legal Geek's 2019 North American...
Who are the "Unprofessional" Players in Today's Legal Market?As published in Corporate Counsel magazine Susan explores the ALSP or ELSP marketplace (Alternative or Elite Legal Service Providers) to...
Anticipating the 2018 CLOC Institute: Grading Legal Ops Progress...The following article appears in Corporate Counsel magazine, posted April 20, 2018; since this is behind the firewall for some of you,...
Building High-Performance Legal Teams: Law Departments Re-Engineer Value and Competencies via New SkPublished in the May 2018 PD Quarterly, the Magazine of the National Association for Legal Placement (NALP) Since corporate law...
The Down-and-Dirty Dozen: Practical Strategies for Legal to Emulate the BusinessThe legal department has been seen as the one area of the business that did not function according to the rules of business. However,...
An Inside Job: The Law Department as a Strategic Partner to the BusinessFor several months, I've been trying to pull a number of themes and thoughts together under a single banner, and what I come out with is:...
Challenges for the General Counsel - Structuring and Effective Global Law DepartmentSusan is the CEO of Legal Executive Leadership, LLC, a law practice management consulting firm she founded in 2011 after serving as the...
The Relevance Of Lawyers in the New Normal______ Written for Thomson Reuters’ Nothing’s Normal Column in “Corporate Counsel Connect” - offered below are Susan's three posts in...
Legal Discomfort* There is an old truism that suggests that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling discomfort, for it is then...