An item for your bulletin board, this series of checklists covers project scoping, budgeting, post project reviews and lines of communications. It also includes best practices culled from discussions among a large gathering of inside and outside counsel, as well as a sample project kick-off meeting agenda.
This resource contains a list of useful benchmarking resources as it pertains to the 2012 ACC Annual Meeting Session 1105.
This material provides specific examples of the wide range of current benchmarking data sources available to assess how well you are doing, as well as potential areas of opportunity to improve performance.
A checklist of items and agenda points to consider before a matter kick-off meeting with outside counsel.
A checklist to keep handy when discussing the scope of a new project, including budget, with your outside counsel.
A sample outside counsel legal budget with detailed columns for milestones, estimated budgets, revised budget estimates, actual billed, and reasons for variance.
This session is designed to benefit every corporate attorney from the entry level associate G.C. to the experienced G.C. as it argues for a radically different perspective of the Legal Department within the modern corporate structure.
Explore ethical considerations involving electronic file sharing, accessibility and storage, as well as document retention and destruction.
Panelists provide an overview of legal project management techniques and tools. They share war stories and engage you in a discussion about best practices for scoping projects, managing teams and budgets, communicating to stakeholders, addressing scope creep, and conducting post project reviews.
Learn about several aspects of compliance with state laws and regulations, including labor and employment aspects to setting up operations in a state, including minimum wage issues, IC v employee and "founder's syndrome;" and regulatory aspects, including sales tax exemptions, lobbying and campaign finance regulations.