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Value Practice: Creating Value by Selecting Strategic Practice Area Providers - Practices at GE Canada
Aug 2009 Toolkit Resource Download pdf
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: 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: Law Firm Value Task Force at Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
Jun 2009 Toolkit Resource Download pdf
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
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: 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: 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: 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: 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 ...
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 ...
Law Firm Litigation Performance Evaluation
Oct 2008 Toolkit Resource
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How to Base a Partnering Program on Sound Principals
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A list of principals to strengthen any partnering program, producing real value to both the company and the law firms.
Value Practice: FMC After Action
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This ACC Value Practice piece focuses on FMC Technologies’ rigorous After Action Process.
How to Focus on the Key Drivers of Partnering Programs
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Four keys to influencing working relationships with law firms, and, used well, improving the performance of the broader legal team.
Wal-Mart Outside Counsel Guidelines
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Comprehensive guidelines used to manage outside counsel.
Value Practice: GE Panel Firm Training
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This ACC Value Practice example focuses on GE’s communications and training practices as connected with panel firm relationships.
Value Practice: FMC Alternative Billing
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The focus of this ACC Value Practice piece in on FMC Technologies’ ACES performance based pay alternative billing system.
Value Practice: Walmart Performance Evaluation
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Wal-Mart’s Outside Counsel Evaluation Process is highlighted, with summary of key elements, evaluation criteria and performance evaluation form.