Best Practices for Retaining & Working Effectively with Outside Counsel

Is your outside counsel making your life easier?  Getting the most from your outside counsel relationships requires proactive management and clear communications and a thorough understanding of their areas of expertise.

Register for this webinar and learn from experienced in-house counsel on the best practices for retaining and working with outside counsel, with a specific focus on selecting and managing outside counsel to protect and defend your company's intellectual property.  Often, IP outside counsel are relied upon to secure valuable intellectual property assets, including patents and trademarks, and to sometimes defend the company in litigation disputes, all areas with substantial financial impact.

Learn how do you choose IP counsel, what factors should be considered, what technology, special backgrounds to seek and what is breadth of firms practice (patents, trademarks, copyrights, litigation.)

During this webinar, the panel will provide practical tips for securing, building and fostering the most effective working relationships, including:

• Retaining outside counsel for specific services
• Using Requests for Proposals
• Negotiating engagement agreement
• Building a long-term relationship
• Applying best practices from other firms
• Setting expectations for services, communications, and technology, particularly for tracking and communicating sensitive information.

Register below and come away with important, useful information on how to pick your next advisor.  Zoom address will be sent within 24 hours of the webinar.