This material give recommendations on how to work with your external legal service providers to get the most out of their KM initiatives.
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.
If you're ready to move away from the billable hour as your default fee basis and adopt fee structures that will motivate your firms to help achieve your business objectives, this session will give you some practical guidance.
Many in-house legal departments don’t have lawyers who can act as full-time managers of company litigation. You may have to do your regular job and manage litigation on a part-time basis. If your company isn’t regularly engaged in litigation, it can inadvertently fall into a number of traps when litigation does arise. Learn how to anticipate and avoid them.
A sample RFP for outside counsel service from the Royal Bank of Canada, with an exact breakdown of how they want their work completed and presented.
This advanced closed-door, open discussion session is designed specifically for CLOs, GCs, and DGCs. Lead by a panel of industry in-house experts and senior outside counsel, the interactive discussion will focus on how to manage a portfolio of cases, discuss settlement procedures and policies, and institutional approaches to arbitration fora and trial venue.
John P. Frantz, vice president and associate general counsel at Verizon, discusses how his role as chair of the company’s pro bono program is one of the most rewarding aspects of his job.
A collection of metrics for evaluating law department budgets.
While both their titles and their responsibilities vary depending on their departmental needs, the following are the top ten roles a law department Business Operations Directormay perform.
The Association of Corporate Counsel and Laurence Simons surveyed corporate legal departments to learn more about their teams in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). The ACC/Laurence Simons 2012 EMEA Legal Department Survey is available to members and non-members.