Advocacy
Budgeting & Staffing
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How to Train Staff to Properly Manage Budgets
Oct 2009 Toolkit Resource Download pdf
This How To gives healthy tips for setting and managing law department budgets, matter to matter and year to year.
Value Practice: Cigna - Nailing the Basics
Jul 2009 Toolkit Resource Download pdf
Setting and managing budgets, training, use of quarterly reports, and how the budget performance is measured by CIGNA's law department, is discussed in this value practice.
CIGNA Litigation and Law Group’s performance objectives
Jul 2009 Toolkit Resource
Sample, CIGNA Litigation and Law Group's performance objectives - includes "Nail the Basics'
Value Practice: Deconstructing IP Litigation Matters and Implementing Alternative Fee Arrangements
Jun 2009 Toolkit Resource Download pdf
This resource describes how Confluence Law Partners is structured to approach alternative fee arrangements in an IP litigation case.
Value Practice: Using Balanced Scorecards to Demonstrate Law Department’s Value: Value-Add Practice for Southern California Edison’s Law Department
Jun 2009 Toolkit Resource Download pdf
Highlights a quarterly review process with key business leaders of Southern California Edison Company and how the General Counsel uses a balanced scorecard approach to demonstrate the law department's ...
Value Practice: Royal Bank of Canada Demand Management Practices
Jun 2009 Toolkit Resource Download pdf
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.
RBC Demand Management Guidelines
Jun 2009 Toolkit Resource Download pdf
Guidelines developed by Royal Bank of Canada for their Demand Management practices used to engage outside counsel.
RBC Demand Tracking Form
Jun 2009 Toolkit Resource
A spreadsheet used by Royal Bank of Canada to track cost savings attributable to their Demand Management practices used when engaging outside counsel.
Value Practice: Communicating Emphasis on Value within Sprint Nextel: Budget Reports, Settlements and Recoveries
May 2009 Toolkit Resource Download pdf
Sprint-Nextel's General Counsel circulates a monthly budget report and is implementing settlement and recovery reporting to all legal staff to help the department in understanding decisions and ...
Sprint Nextel: Cost Per Hour
May 2009 Toolkit Resource
A Sprint-Nextel spreadsheet showing cost per hour for in-house lawyers; helpful in communicating costs to business clients and outside counsel
Value Practice: Demonstrating the Law Department’s Value: Calculating In-house Counsel Costs
May 2009 Toolkit Resource Download pdf
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.
Value Practice: Early Case Assessments, Decision Tree Risk Analysis, Alternative Fees, Technology and Litigation Practices: Focus on Value at Abbott, Simses and Kuchler
Nov 2008 Toolkit Resource Download pdf
Key practices used by Abbott, Simses to increase the value to clients of the firm’s services include: Early case assessment to focus on early case resolution; Decision trees to focus on what issues ...
Value Practice: Global Account Management at Eversheds LLP
Nov 2008 Toolkit Resource Download pdf
This ACC Value Practice piece focuses on global account management practices implemented at Eversheds. The firm reports that it invested more than $20 million in these practices and that cumulative ...
Value Practice: Use of Tailored Six Sigma Methodologies at Seyfarth Shaw
Nov 2008 Toolkit Resource Download pdf
This ACC Value Practice piece focuses on Seyfarth’s efforts to apply a tailored version of Six Sigma practices to reengineer legal projects so they deliver better results while utilizing resources ...
ACES Non-Litigation Spreadsheet with bonus calculator
Oct 2008 Toolkit Resource
Evaluation matrix integrated with matter management system
ACES Litigation Spreadsheet
Oct 2008 Toolkit Resource
Evaluation matrix integrated with matter management system.
Promoting Litigation Cost Control Measures
Oct 2008 Toolkit Resource Download pdf
This guide gives methods of tracking cost controls, techniques in-house can use to communicate cost control policies and standards to litigation managers, and suggestions for overcoming resistance ...
Value Practice: FMC After Action
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This ACC Value Practice piece focuses on FMC Technologies’ rigorous After Action Process.
Wal-Mart Outside Counsel Guidelines
Sep 2008 Toolkit Resource Download pdf
Comprehensive guidelines used to manage outside counsel.
Value Practice: FMC Alternative Billing
Sep 2008 Toolkit Resource Download pdf
The focus of this ACC Value Practice piece in on FMC Technologies’ ACES performance based pay alternative billing system.