So many cottage industries thrive on law departments! A village!

As Rees Morrison points out, there's a whole cottage industry of niche legal services that are making a living off law departments. Here's the list compiled by Rees Morrison:

• ADR (alternative dispute resolution)
• Auditors of legal bills
• Class action claims
• Consultants on law department management
• Consultants on compliance, corporate governance, and ethics
• Corporate governance groups
• Corporate secretary services and software
• Corporate secretary portals
• Court reporters
• Decision analysts
• Document assembly
• Document discovery
• E-billing vendors
• Economic analysis experts
• Electronic discovery
• Ethics line third parties
• Expert witness sites online
• Legal and compliance training online
• Legal research
• Litigation and trial consultants
• Matter management systems
• Medical/nurse analysts
• Offshore providers
• Online selection of law firms
• Part-time general counsel
• Search firms
• Settlement and ADR capabilities online
• Settlement counsel
• Writing instructors

Law Department Management