Bartlit Beck handles high stakes litigation under a variety of non‐hourly structures. This Value Practice resource details how Bartlit Beck crafts these fee arrangements and structures operations to make them work.
Sprint-Nextel's General Counsel circulates a monthly budget report and is implementing settlement and recovery reporting to all legal staff to help the department in understanding decisions and related costs on a regular basis.
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.
This ACC Value Practice piece highlights the law department's practices for creating and managing alternative fee/value-based arrangements and related invoice and billing practices to help efficiently track and manage legal budgets.
A law department implements a three-prong approach to process employee complaints, handling them in-house with good results.
This Value Practice resource describes the approach to designing and negotiating an alternative fee arrangement taken by Edwin Reeser, a sole practitioner.
This Leading Practices Profile describes the structure of law departments and the role of general counsel in Canada in providing in-house legal services to support multinational businesses. In-house counsel from eight companies reveal how their in-house legal departments are structured and operate, and how they manage the various functions of their law departments, including compliance, technology, retention of outside counsel and providing value to the corporations
they serve.
The Johnson Mathey law department’s practices relating to value-based staffing, strategic planning and setting meaningful budgets and alternative fee structuresare highlighted in this ACC Value Practice piece.
More than ever before, corporate boards and their lawyers are squarely in the spot light. Transparency, independence, and informed decision-making are among important governance program features that many believe will help keep companies on track. Companies such as Alcan Inc, Avnet Inc, Bell Canada Enterprises, Cargill Incorporated, ChevronTexaco, Intel Corporation, Lyondell Chemical Company, and Praxair, Inc. share information on board structure and function, board-level practices related to broader governance initiatives, and describe the role of in-house lawyers in helping to develop these programs.
In-house lawyers for companies around the world are playing leading roles in providing proactive legal guidance to corporate clients on governance initiatives. This practice profile shares information on practices implemented at the following seven companies: Alvarion Ltd., Ballard Power Systems, General Motors Corporation, SAP AG, Sun Microsystems, Inc., Westpac Banking Corporation, and Woolworths Limited.