Legal Service Management Workshop
For each workshop, ACC assembles a faculty of legal practitioners with extensive knowledge of value-based fee structures and management practices, experienced in law department and law firm management as well as consulting. In addition to preparing curricular materials and teaching, faculty members serve as facilitators as you work through business cases in small groups to apply your new management tools.
FACULTY INCLUDE
 Jeff Carr
Jeffrey W. Carr is the Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary for FMC Technologies, Inc. and is responsible for the design of the company's ACES law firm engagement model.
Prior to being named Senior Vice President in August 2010, Jeff held the positions of Vice President, General Council and Secretary since 2001. He has also served as Associate General Counsel for FMC's energy and airport systems business groups from 1997. Jeff joined FMC Corporation in November 1993 as International Counsel in Philadelphia. Prior to joining FMC, he practiced international trade law in Washington, D.C., and completed a federal judicial clerkship in Delaware. During his career, Jeff founded and managed International Advisory Services Group, Ltd., an international trade policy, investment banking and commercial consulting firm with offices in Washington, Prague and Manila.
Jeff received a Bachelor's Degree in Government and Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia and a Law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center.
 Lisa Damon
Lisa Damon is a key member of Seyfarth Shaw's senior leadership team. She serves on the firm's Executive, Administrative and Compensation Committees, and also has executive oversight of the firm's SeyfarthLean initiative. Her vision and guidance have been highly instrumental in adapting SeyfarthLean's core principles of delivering client value, collaboration and efficiency to all firm departments and practice groups. Lisa, who is a certified GreenBelt, leads teams of lawyers and staff to bring SeyfarthLean to clients across a broad platform of legal services. Under Lisa's leadership, SeyfarthLean has gained significant attention and she is regularly asked by high profile organizations, such as the Association of Corporate Counsel, to share best practices and other knowledge.
Lisa is the National Chair of Seyfarth Shaw's 350 attorney Labor & Employment Department, and she represents management in the area of labor and employment law with an emphasis on litigation of claims of sex, race and age discrimination and harassment. She consults with clients on avoiding such litigation, through improved management policies and practices, positive employee relations, training and diversity assessment. Lisa also works with management to devise and refine diversity programs, helping companies limit class action liability and achieve diversity objectives
 Bill Garcia
Bill Garcia is the former Executive Director of Strategic Initiatives at Howrey LLP, and is now winding down the affairs of the firm. Bill worked with firm management to develop and execute a strategic vision; acquire and integrate partner groups; and structure and manage the firm's client service organization. Bill developed and assessed proposed alternative fee/value based billing arrangements; advised firm clients on the formation and operation of preferred legal vendor programs; and created and managed firm's Strategic Client Program.
Prior to re-joining Howrey, Bill was most recently Vice-President, Compliance Oversight at MCI, Inc. For more than a decade prior to joining MCI, Bill was in-house counsel at Gannett Co., Inc., the global news and information company, where he advised the senior management team on antitrust and other matters and managed the commercial litigation docket of Gannett and its subsidiaries
 Kenneth A. Grady
Kenneth A. Grady is General Counsel and Secretary for Wolverine World Wide, Inc., a publicly held global marketer, distributor and retailer of footwear and apparel. He also has held general counsel, in-house counsel and executive positions with PC Connection, Inc., KB Toys, Inc., Payless ShoeSource, Inc. (now part of Collective Brands, Inc.) and HNI Corporation. Ken also has experience as the Vice President and General Manager of a "lean" manufacturing and distribution facility, including more than 1,500 hours of lean implementation experience in the U.S. and Japan. Prior to his in-house positions, Ken was a partner in the international law firm McDermott, Will & Emery and an associate in a boutique Chicago law firm.
Ken has a Bachelor of Arts degree (summa cum laude) from Drake University; a Master of Management degree from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management where he was an F.C. Austin Scholar; and a Juris Doctor degree from Northwestern University's School of Law where he was on the editorial board of the Journal of International Law & Business and a recipient of the Lowden-Wigmore Prize. Ken also has completed graduate level studies in psychology. Ken has participated as a presenter in various ACC and other organization sessions on issues ranging from Internet legal issues to in-house counsel practice management, and is a member of ACC's Value Challenge Steering Committee.
 Nancy Jessen
Nancy Jessen has more than 20 years of experience working with legal organizations on a variety of strategic and operational issues. Her focus has included the areas of organizational structure, cost containment, outside counsel
management, process improvement and strategic technology utilization. Prior to joining Huron, Nancy was with Navigant Consulting, Inc. and Arthur Andersen, LLP. Her career also includes working for a private law firm and a software development company focused on billing, accounting and financial management software for the legal community.
Examples of Nancy's experience include leading the development of a new outside counsel management program that resulted in a standard process and criteria for selection and management of outside counsel including scope of work, fee arrangements and evaluation and leading a project to improve the efficiency of a law department and ensure that resources focus on the highest value work. Nancy has also led an effort to analyze the law department of a major P&C insurance company to understand the current operations, align the department with the corporate strategy and identify cost saving opportunities.
Nancy has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Management Information Systems from Iowa State University. She is a member of the International Association for Contract and Commercial Management (IACCM) and has spoken at a number of conferences, including the Association of Corporate Counsel, IACCM, vendor conferences and various law department forums.
 Patrick Lamb
Patrick Lamb is a founding member of Valorem Law Group. Valorem represents corporate clients in business disputes, and is at the forefront of helping clients solve their business disputes and coping with pressures to reduce legal spend using nontraditional approaches, including use of non-hourly fee structures, coordination with LPOs or contract lawyers, joint venturing with other firms and implementation of project management tools to handle lawsuits or portfolios of litigation. Pat has, for years, been an outspoken critic of the billable hour model, including the annual rate increases that have become part of the legal tradition.
Pat is the author of the recently published book Alternative Fee Arrangements: Value Fees and the Changing Legal Market (2010). More information about Pat, his book and Valorem can be found at www.valoremlaw.com.
 Rob Lipstein
Rob Lipstein is a partner in Crowell & Moring's Antitrust, International Investment, Trade and Arbitration (ITA), and Intellectual Property Groups, and is co-chair of the Antitrust Group and chair of the ITA Group Steering Committee. As chair of the firm's Finance and Contingent Fee Review Committees, Rob also leads the firm's value-based billing initiatives, working within the firm and with clients to craft and implement value based fee agreements. Rob has worked closely with ACC on its Value Challenge, and is a core faculty member for ACC's Legal Service Management curriculum.
In private practice in Washington, D.C. since 1978, Rob counsels clients on all aspects of antitrust and trade regulation issues, with particular expertise on mergers and acquisitions; product distribution; and the interaction of antitrust and intellectual property laws. Rob has decades of industry specialization in a broad range of industries, from chemicals and industrial gases, to hazardous waste, consumer electronics, musical instruments and technology/telecommunications. Rob is the architect of distribution agreements that have become the standards in several industries, and has assisted companies to establish and enforce unilateral Minimum Advertised Price and Minimum Retail Price policies.
FACILITATORS INCLUDE
 Anastasia Boyko
Anastasia Boyko manages Outreach and Development at Practical Law Company (PLC), where she advises organizations in achieving their professional development, knowledge management, and business development goals using PLC's legal know-how product.
Prior to joining PLC, Anastasia practiced corporate tax law at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, after beginning her legal career at Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP in New York. Anastasia also worked as an investment banker for Odeon Capital Group where she was exposed to the various legal issues impacting financial institutions.
Anastasia received her B.S., with honors, from the University of Utah and her J.D. from the Yale Law School. Prior to law school, Anastasia was a curatorial assistant at the Supreme Court of the United States.
She is an active member of the New York State Bar and serves on its Committee on Attorney Professionalism, where she recently chaired and moderated a program on Alternate Legal Fee Arrangements and the Business of Law at the Association's annual meeting. Anastasia frequently speaks on topics of professional development, knowledge management and legal trends.
Lisa Delsante
Lisa Delsante is the Head of Law Department at Practical Law Company (PLC). Prior to joining PLC, Lisa was Principal Legal Counsel for Direct Energy Business, where she was responsible for the management and oversight of corporate legal and commercial law matters related to that business unit for North America. Direct Energy is the third largest commercial retail energy supplier in North America. Lisa was also a member of the Direct Energy Business’ management team.
Lisa joined Direct Energy in 2005 and served as a functional lead in the integration of two leading commercial retail energy providers in 2008. Prior to joining Direct Energy, Lisa worked as Corporate and Securities Associate at Hunton & Williams LLP, as Senior Legal Analyst at Philip Morris International and as Senior Program Coordinator in the New York County District Attorney’s Office. Lisa holds a Bachelor’s degree in English from the University at Albany, a Master’s degree in English from New York University and a Juris Doctorate from Pace University School of Law. She is also the Director and President of the Children of the Sahara Foundation and a member of the YWCA of Greater Pittsburgh Board of Directors.
 Renee Karibi-Whyte
Renee Karibi-Whyte currently oversees law department marketing development and research initiatives for Practical Law Company. Her focus includes identification of key issues and concerns of in-house counsel, particularly as they relate to efficiency and cost containment.
Prior to joining Practical Law Company, Renee worked with American Conference Institute, where she managed a team of attorneys that researched, developed and facilitated conferences for in-house and private practice attorneys on diverse issues, ranging from law department management to regulatory compliance and litigation strategies. In this role, Renee researched, developed and facilitated events on reducing legal costs for in house counsel, providing in-depth, practical information and concrete take-aways. Under Renee's direction, her team developed and ran over 70 events per year focused on helping attorneys improve their practice and the bottom line.
Renee previously practiced at Morgan Lewis & Bockius, worked with the US Judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, and served as a Trial Attorney in the Environment and Natural Resources division in the US Department of Justice Honors Program. After graduating from Harvard Law School, she clerked for the then-Chief Judge of the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.
 Kate Perrelli
Kate is a partner in the firm’s Boston office and Chair of Seyfarth’s Litigation Department. She is a trial lawyer with over 20 years of experience representing clients in the financial services, transportation, manufacturing, technology, pharmaceutical, and staffing industries. Her commercial practice focuses on trial work and counseling in the areas of trade secrets and restrictive covenants, unfair competition and complex commercial disputes, including dealer/franchise disputes, and contract disputes. Her experience spans all forms of dispute resolution, including mediation and arbitration, as well as litigation in federal and state courts and before administrative agencies across the country.
Kate is a certified Six Sigma Green Belt. Using Lean Six Sigma and project management methodologies, the SeyfarthLean approach delivers increased value to clients at a time of increased market pressures and competitive demands.
Kate has been selected regularly as one of the state’s “Super Lawyers” in a joint survey conducted by the publishers of Law and Politics magazine and Boston magazine, as part of a special publication entitled “The Top Attorneys in the Northeast.”
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