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Most law-department administrators report to the general counsel

By Rees Morrison

pLaw department administrators are responsible for operations of the department and a new survey offers many insights into that responsibility (See my post of Feb.13, 2008 a href="http://lawdepartmentmanagement.typepad.com/law_department_management/2008/02/administrators.html"administrators with 21 references/a.). /p pThis post kicks off a series about the First Law Department Operations Survey, published by InsideCounsel and a href="mailto:brad@blicksteingroup.com"Blickstein Group/a in cooperation with Huron Consulting Group and David Cambria, Director of Operations, Law Department, Aon Corporation. The survey obtained responses from 50 administrators, although it uses the term ?law department operations.? I commend the survey as it addresses a hole in the legal-department metrics market not served by Jon Bellis at Hildebrandt or Dan DiLucchio at Altman Weil./p pThree out of four survey respondents report directly to the general counsel. This reporting structure is analogous to the reporting lines of general counsel: in the US somewhat more than three quarters of them report to the CEO (See my post of April 12, 2006: reporting of GCs to CEO.). Given the importance of the role, it is meet and right so to do./p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/typepad/TfzN?a=bQ5nlH"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/typepad/TfzN?i=bQ5nlH" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/typepad/TfzN?a=hauTO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/typepad/TfzN?i=hauTO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/typepad/TfzN?a=gteKO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/typepad/TfzN?i=gteKO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/typepad/TfzN?a=vJk8O"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/typepad/TfzN?i=vJk8O" border="0"/img/a /div

Full post as published by Law Department Management on December 21, 2008 (boomark / email).