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Value Practice: Third Party Document Review and Calling All Timekeepers to the Table: Efficient and Cost-Effective Practices that Add Value
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This ACC Value Practice piece describes how a Fortune 500 company saves money and enhances efficiency by using third party service providers for document review and by implementing communications ...
Value Practice: Alternative Fee/Value-based Arrangement Implemented by Smaller Law Department - Securities Portfolio Work for Wolverine World Wide, Inc.
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Small law department's can successfully implement alternative fee/value-based arrangements. See how Wolverine World Wide, Inc.'s law department is working with outside counsel to handle ...
Value Practice: Employment Litigation and Counseling Portfolio Services on a Flat Fee Basis- Value Practices Implemented by Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Inc.’s Law Department
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Toyota Motor Sales, USA migrated to a flat fee arrangement for employment litigation and counseling portfolio. This Value Practice shows steps taken and components of the move.
Value Practice: Using a Disciplined Internal ‘Hoshin’ Planning Process to Enhance Alignment with Business Clients- Law Department Practices at Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Inc.
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Toyota Motor Sales, USA uses "hoshin" practice to align its legal department with the internal business clients. This Value Practice illustrates how hoshin enhances internal communications ...
Value Practice: Creating Value by Selecting Strategic Practice Area Providers - Practices at GE Canada
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GE Canada implemented a process to select strategic partner firms to provide services with added value. This Value Practice lists the key steps GE Canada took and end 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: Cigna - Nailing the Basics
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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
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This resource describes how Confluence Law Partners is structured to approach alternative fee arrangements in an IP litigation case.
Value Practice: Law Firm Value Task Force at Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
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To assist law firm attorneys in developing tools to deliver value to clients, Drinker Biddle & Reath created a Value Task Force, with its goals and attributes highlighted in this Practice Profile.
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
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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: Maximizing Value in Fee Relationships - Valorem Law Group
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Valorem's customized alternative fee arrangements, and its firm structure and practices are designed to consistently deliver value to clients. Patrick Lamb discusses key elements to their approach.
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: Early Case Assessments, Decision Tree Risk Analysis, Alternative Fees, Technology and Litigation Practices: Focus on Value at Abbott, Simses and Kuchler
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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: 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: Global Account Management at Eversheds LLP
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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 ...