In-House Counsel

How law departments distribute arriving letters and other hard-copy mail

By Rees Morrison

This riveting topic no doubt keeps many general counsel awake at night. For that reason, and because of a plethora of best practices in this heatedly-debated area, I will now announce the winners. Open the envelope, please!

Some law departments have an array slots, boxes or hanging file folders with one box or folder for each person in the law department. Ah, but who puts the mail in those receptacles?

Other departments have a delivery person who strolls the halls and distributes the mail. That person picked up the mail from a central mail room.

No one can deny that it is a close and strategic call as between these two methods. I look forward to the flood of responses from rapt readers.

Full post as published by Law Department Management on January 13, 2008 (boomark / email).