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This resource highlights Hewlett-Packards' program to onboard law school graduates, train them, and mentor them each step on their way toward full engagement within the law department.

This Leading Practices Profile continues the series of ACC Leading Practices Profiles examining the role of law department leaders and in-house counsel in managing the legal affairs of companies doing business abroad.

This Leading Practices Profile presents themes, trends and leading convergence practices of six legal departments and three law firms in selecting and managing preferred outside counsel networks as value partners.

This ACC Value Practice piece describes how Nelson Mullins' Encompass works with clients and case counsel to provide national review counsel services using project management practices and value-based staffing and fee structures.

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.

This Leading Practices Profile features the best practices of five ACC law department members for planning and hosting successful legal retreats. In the wake of the economic downturn and increased pressure to do more with less, these participating corporations share their best planning practices to deliver retreats that inspire, teach, and fortify legal teams to continue delivering results to their organizations that will offset meeting costs.

Overview of data mining and reporting tools directed toward law departments and law firms, how they tools do and don’t coordinate, and where to start for corporate counsel beginning to implement value-based fees. From ACC Value Challenge workshop, Legal Service Management, July 2010: www.acc.com/legalservicemanagement

Read how Bombadier, Inc. interfaces with law firms to manage workloads and gain expertise during workload peaks.

This Value Practice Resource highlights key elements of Nationwide's Approved Counsel Program (ACP) and gives insights to key success factors.

Sprint-Nextel calculates its law department costs for comparison against outside counsel costs. This has been useful in communication with the business clients and outside counsel.