Promoting volunteerism can benefit your department and your company. Learn how to create, maintain and publicize your company's volunteer programs.
Reviews the reasons for compliance, considerations impacting placement of the compliance function, and varying approaches to creating a program. Then discusses the critical importance of measuring your program's effectiveness, and explores some tools to measure effectiveness and to tailor that measurement process for particular companies and stages of compliance.
This article takes you through each stage of the comprehensive outside counsel selection process. It identifies issues and recommends certain courses of action that legal departments should include in their planning for each stage of the selection process.
How do online procurement services rank in making your practice more effective? Many of these services are largely misunderstood. Rather than being radical vehicles of change, they are natural and evolutionary tools from a trend started years ago.
Statistically driven and data intensive, Six Sigma has emerged as the latest and hottest quality initiative within corporate America. Learn how you can apply this strategy for increasing client satisfaction and reducing costs within your legal department.
Alternative fees is a topic on which much has been written and discussed, but the activity backing the hype has been sparse. If you haven’t been able to get past the roadblocks-either self-imposed or constructed by your outside counsel - read on for tried-and-true strategies for conquering the doubts, the fears, and the discomfort.
The task based billing buzz has substantially quieted during the several years since introduction of the standard codes based on that concept. For some, it has gone the way of Total Quality Management and other sweeping reforms. A fresh look may be warranted, however, at the use of task based billing as a powerful cost management tool.