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Unless you are finishing up a two-year corporate counsel stint at a remote company in rural Antarctica, you are probably pretty well-versed in the language of the recession that has taken hold of news headlines, board-room meetings, and dinner-table conversations.  Scaling back, laying off, flat-fee billing, in-house eDiscovery ---these have been the recent buzz words in legal departments across nation.

Well, now there are a few numbers to back up the in-house recessionary fodder.  Hildebrandt International has released its annual Hildebrandt Law Department Survey, which provides benchmarking data for U.S. and global law departments. 

Now we have all heard about the virtues and the dangers of Facebooking at work, or tweeting during meetings, but can in-house counsel actually benefit a company's bottom line by foraying into the world of social media?  According to an article on the subject in Bloomberg, there is a possibility.

The article reports on a general counsel's online exchange of ideas of how his legal department saves company green by drafting trademark applications in-house before sending to outside counsel. The initial social media post met with responses by corporate counsel at other companies offering their own money-saving techniques. 

Are you surprised? Mystified? Downright befuddled? We didn't think so.

Today has been a rare bright spot for a deeply troubled newspaper industry that has seen a series of disasters befall it lately.

The Boston Globe announced that the paper, which is owned by the New York Times Co., reached a deal with its largest labor union, the Boston Newspaper Guild, that would allow the 137 year-old paper to continue publication.

Just how long it will be able to continue publication is another matter entirely, however.