This resource highlights Hewlett-Packards' program to onboard law school graduates, train them, and mentor them each step on their way toward full engagement within the law department.
Office Depot sample of a request for proposal for employment litigation legal services.
Office Depot sample of a request for proposal for intellectual property legal services.
Live Nation has found benefits to integrating temporary staffing into its litigation teams. This Value Practice piece covers the benefits and and things to keep in mind.
Bartlit Beck handles high stakes litigation under a variety of non‐hourly structures. This Value Practice resource details how Bartlit Beck crafts these fee arrangements and structures operations ...
Utilizing the practices in this "How To" resource can improve a Legal Department’s approach to engaging vendors, which contributes to better services overall.
Hannah and Morton LLP found that using fewer associates enables the firm to add value to their clients in several ways, outlined in this Value Practice piece.
The "STARR" framework involves coordination between client and law firm to achieve better value in complex litigation. This Value Practice resource gives details.
This Value Practice resource describes how FSB Legal Counsel's unique operating model is structured and how it serves its clients with a lower cost base and efficient approaches.
The Johnson Mathey law department’s practices relating to value-based staffing, strategic planning and setting meaningful budgets and alternative fee structuresare highlighted in this ACC Value Practice ...
A primer on the state and possibilities of Value practices with an emphasis on alternative billing and staffing defin itions and practices.
This ACC Value Practice piece highlights the law department's practices for creating and managing alternative fee/value-based arrangements and related invoice and billing practices to help efficiently ...
A law department implements a three-prong approach to process employee complaints, handling them in-house with good results.
The Clorox Company, after implementing a program focused on cost savings and driving incremental value, realized a significant cost savings in intellectual property matters.
Demand Management, implemented by Royal Bank of Canada as an effective tool to structure use of internal and external lawyers, reduces annual external legal expenses by 20 percent.
Guidelines developed by Royal Bank of Canada for their Demand Management practices used to engage outside counsel.
Jun 2009
Value Practice
A spreadsheet used by Royal Bank of Canada to track cost savings attributable to their Demand Management practices used when engaging outside counsel.
May 2009
Value Practice
A Sprint-Nextel spreadsheet showing cost per hour for in-house lawyers; helpful in communicating costs to business clients and outside counsel
Sprint-Nextel calculates its law department costs for comparison against outside counsel costs. This has been useful in communication with the business clients and outside counsel.
Provides examples of strategies that firms can use to create a competitive advantage. Includes advice such as keeping fee rates in step with the local market, fostering collaboration, creating efficiencies, ...
