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Value Practice: Value-Based Fee Arrangements - The Body Shop’s Approach to Structuring Relationships
Sep 2009 Toolkit Resource Download pdf
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 ...
Value Practice: Handling Employee Complaint Process In-house Yields Value- Practices at OSI Industries, LLC
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A law department implements a three-prong approach to process employee complaints, handling them in-house with good results.
Value Practice: Value Matrix for Intellectual Property Matters - Alternative Fee Structures Based on Level of Difficulty, Staffing Mix and Billing Guidelines and Informal Training
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The Clorox Company, after implementing a program focused on cost savings and driving incremental value, realized a significant cost savings in intellectual property matters.
Value Practice: Royal Bank of Canada Demand Management Practices
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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
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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.
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
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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: Strategies to Create Competitive Advantages at Greenberg Traurig LLP
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Creating a Different Kind of Firm -- Strategies to Create Competitive Advantages
Value Practice: Sourcing Legal Work in India Leads to Significant Savings
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Sun Microsystems has successfully developed partner relationships with several Legal Provider Organizations (LPO) in India to complete selected legal assignments that are generally process oriented.
Value Practice: Collaborating without Gatekeeping: Focus on Client Service
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This value practice examines key attributes of Ballard Spahr’s preferred provider approach to client service.
Value Practice: Professional Development, Efficiency Task Force and Business Strategies Initiatives at McKenna Long and Aldridge
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This profile focuses on McKenna Long’s value-building efforts in three areas: Competency-based Professional Development Program; efficiency Task Force and; Business Strategies Services.
Value Practice: Use of Tailored Six Sigma Methodologies at Seyfarth Shaw
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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 ...
Promoting Litigation Cost Control Measures
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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 ...
How to Describe the Benefits of Partnering Strategies
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This table lists partnering strategies and their correlating benefits for easy explanation to clients or colleagues.
Value Practice: DuPont Paralegal Staffing
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DuPont utilization of paralegals thru outside counsel guidelines, internal organizational structure, and measurements on utilization has brought value.
How to Transition From Traditional Model to Proactive Model (Part I)
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Compares and contrasts the characteristics of “traditional” and “proactive” law departments.
How to Transition From Traditional Model to Proactive Model (Part II)
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Provides a blueprint for assessing a law department transition from “traditional” to “proactive”.
How to Use Seven Levers to Control Litigation Costs
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Discussion of seven critical points in the course of litigation when certain actions can minimize costs.
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