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How to Boost Business — and Employee Morale — by Partnering with Your Law Firm
Andy Powell and Michael Wippler
6 pages

Both corporate legal departments and their outside law firms face challenges in recruiting and developing talented lawyers. When they work together on a mentorship program, they not only find a solution but also improve business.

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Interest Area: Career Development
Region: United States
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How In-house Counsel Can Help Their Organizations Navigate Global Uncertainty
Vince Pearson and Elizabeth Gibbes
6 pages

With seemingly never-ending shifts in global politics and economies, everyone is looking to in-house counsel for guidance. Follow this roadmap to guide your organizations through uncertainty.

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Interest Area: Employment and Labor
Region: Canada, China, European Union, Mexico, United Kingdom, United States, North America, South America
Audience: CLO / GC
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This powerpoint presentation provides an overview of legal project management techniques, plus tools you can use to engage you in discussion of best practices for scoping projects, managing teams and budgets, communicating across stakeholders, addressing scope creep, and conducting post project reviews.

Learn how to select, and manage outside counsel.

Legal e-billing can provide a vehicle for benchmarking and measuring the success of your outside legal counsel. These metrics can help you to better forecast and budget legal expenses, but how? You'll hear how leading companies are assessing outside counsel performance, and take home new ideas and strategies your department can put in place immediately to begin managing your outside legal costs more efficiently and effectively.

Everyone likes to talk about "partnerships" with outside counsel, but often we do not focus on building effective and mutually beneficial relationships. Learn how to work effectively with your outside counsel. Topics will include ethical issues and requirements for engagements, billing, and legal work product.

Whether you think of yourself as a litigator, a regulatory specialist, or a transactional lawyer, as a legal manager you will deal with litigation. Because the costs can be so high, many CEOs and other business managers measure the effectiveness of the law department based on how well the department manages litigation. Learn about the latest issues in managing litigation, to help your company achieve the desired result at the right cost.

2007 ACCE Annual Conference: Is your company tempted by the prospect of saving big money by outsourcing technology service, customer call centers, and human resource functions to India or Eastern Europe? You may want to think before you jump. Our panel of outsourcing experts shared practical advice on conducting due diligence, structuring outsourcing agreements, drafting contracts, and minimizing risks.

Canadian CCU 2007: Everyone likes to talk about "partnerships" with outside counsel, but often we do not focus on building effective and mutually beneficial relationships. Learn how. Topics included ethical issues and requirements for engagements, billing and cost containment, and legal work product.

This Participants' Briefing Book includes a discussion outline and suggested resources on the topic of taking charge of escalating law firm costs and connecting costs with value.

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