ACC STL - Litigation Management: A Membership Committee Event

A Membership Committee Event:  Litigation Management 

In an epic Seinfeld episode Kramer’s pet rooster, Little Jerry Seinfeld, ran from Jerry’s apartment to Newman’s in under 30 seconds. Not sure if he should be impressed upon learning this news George asks, “Is that good?” To which Jerry replies, “I don’t know.”

Like measuring the land speed of a rooster without a point of reference, the metrics in-house counsel use to measure outside counsel’s litigation value-add can be just as meaningless.  So join us for a members only roundtable discussion on how litigation managers can measure value. We’ll discuss Value-Based Fees, Early Case Assessment Techniques, and the evolving methods for managing litigation in COVID 19.

The conversation will be moderated by Aaron Mutnick, Senior Litigation Attorney, Shelter Insurance, so come prepared to learn from one another by asking and answering questions like this:

 Value-based fees 
o  What types of fee arrangements are you utilizing?
o  What data are you collecting?
o  What tools or technology is making this harder or easier?

Early Case Assessment techniques -
o  Are your value-based fee arrangements incorporating early case assessment techniques?
o  What carrots and sticks do you use, if any, with outside counsel to evaluate the accuracy of heir early case assessment?
o  When and how do you utilize decision tree analysis?

Managing Litigation in COVID 19 - 
o  Will any of the necessities of COVID 19, i.e. Zoom depositions, be adopted as the default for your post-COVID 19 practice? 
o  Have you re-vetted your outside counsel who are working remote to see what data security protections they have in place?
o  Have you changed any key performance indicators for evaluating outside counsel’s performance?