Provides guidance on how legal departments can leverage their company's internal knowledge in facilitating compliance and managing outside counsel. Provides specific examples of strategies applied when complying with the EU's REACH regulations.
This article takes a look at the role of external counsel and their effectiveness at doing a job well and billing a client fairly in the process.
ACC homepage poll results for the week of 6/6/2011 - 6/12/2011.
As in-house counsel struggle to do more with less, outsourcing is increasingly one tool we consider. And the range of options has grown in recent years. They often sound good, but how effective are they really? How can you make them work to suit your needs? In this program material, a panel shares their experience and insights on what works, what doesn't and how to make legal sourcing work for you.
These guidelines detail the standard terms of engagement between Freescale and outside counsel. Section 1 addresses effective communication, including the company's expectation that counsel allow sufficient time to review and consider counsel's advice and work product prior to deadlines. The remaining Sections address handling confidential/proprietary information, budgets, staffing, retention authority, litigation planning, non-litigation planning, procedures for addressing potential conflicts of interest, media policy, professional fees, invoice timing and format, and policies on expenses.
Sample outside counsel requests for proposal, guidelines on how it is expected to be performed, and how the company and outside counsel are to interact once services are contracted.
In the war over value in litigation between law firms and legal departments, a truce has been called. Recently, the ACC and the ABA came together to engage in a meaningful discussion about value. Learn which findings were expected, surprising and feared, and what the future holds for litigation management.
This whitepaper is intended to identify those eight litigation pitfalls and to give the non-litigious company some strategies for avoiding them.
A sample letter for the retention of outside counsel.
This brief resource (Top Ten) outlines a list of ten practical suggestions for truly effective management of outside counsel spend.