This extensive background gives her an unparalleled understanding of the realities and challenges
of corporate law departments, claims organizations and law firms.
For corporate law departments, contract management lifecycle software helps with drafting, storing executed versions, managing rights and obligation, and anticipating renewal dates.
We are a law practice management consultancy, specializing in
helping corporate law departments, and those who support them, find smarter ways to work and to deliver the results their clients demand.
Instead of drawing its conclusions from
what corporate law departments said they were doing or planned to do, its findings have always been based on what they actually did.
Still, I imagine that these companies must also retain lawyers on staff so that they can attract law firms and
corporate law departments as clients.
The solution has earned an industry reputation for
enabling corporate law departments to use data effectively as a basis for improving legal department performance and outcomes.
Although corporate law departments take great care in initially selecting attorneys with superior legal judgment, little attention is given to enhancing legal judgment after attorneys join a legal department.
He specializes in the recruitment of partners, counsel, associates, and groups on behalf of law firms and attorneys for in - house counsel roles
with corporate law departments in the New York area, across the U.S., Canada, and internationally.
Prior to the official start of LegalTech New York 2015 this morning, a few dozen legal professionals from
large corporate law departments and major law firms gathered at the «LTNY 2015 Kick - Off Breakfast» to discuss the keys to success... Read More»
On October 15, I will moderate a panel on advancing the careers of women lawyers in both private practice and
corporate law departments at the Dorsey & Whitney Corporate Counsel Seminar in Minneapolis.
MCC's founder, Al Driver, former General Counsel of one of the world's leading retailers, was committed to partnering with the world's
leading corporate law department leaders and outside counsel from elite law firms to deliver the essential information needed to be a successful general counsel.
Mark Yacano is a recognized innovator in the delivery of legal services and a trusted adviser to
corporate law departments working with corporate counsel on both business and legal strategy.
To get the full analysis of the ecosystem that Canadian law departments find themselves in today, download your copy of the 2018 State of
Canadian Corporate Law Departments.
Chief legal officers and
corporate law department leaders appeared more eager than their law firm counterparts to divulge compensation data this year, with 117 of them participating in the survey.
According the 2009 Chief Legal Officer Survey conducted by Altman Weil, Inc. [summary, PDF], there is deep skepticism
among corporate law departments that their law firm counterparts are equally serious about change.
I spoke with Brad Blickstein, the founder of the Blickstein Group, a consulting firm that helps businesses
serve corporate law departments and their law firms.
Corporate law departments report that they are re-negotiating outside counsel fees, shifting work to lower - priced law firms, increasing in - house capacity, opting for alternative service providers and using new technology — all to develop a more cost - effective legal services model.
Established and led a team that created a market - leading subscription - based legal invoicing system and the underlying infrastructure components necessary to deliver it to more than a
dozen corporate law departments and their outside counsel
There is also a movement to better calculate, track, and reduce spending, which may represent a tipping point in the cost - control challenge that continues to
concern corporate law departments.
A separate multi-year agreement renews an eight - year relationship between the companies establishing LRN as the exclusive provider of Expert Legal Research and Analysis to the
DuPont corporate law department and its outside counsel.
Knowledge strategy is more than knowledge management, which is how lawyers within law firms and
corporate law departments share what they know about client work, about clients, about markets for their services, and about their firms as businesses.
«A lot of our clients are still thinking through how legal process outsourcing (LPO) can be best applied within their law firm or
corporate law department today and what the «next generation of LPO» looks like.
There is still some sensitivity around legal process outsourcing (LPO); however as time passes, we are seeing a growing number of law firms and
corporate law departments embracing LPO.
I spoke with Rajitha Boer, the founder and director of Yerra Solutions, a professional services company supporting European and
Asian corporate law departments.
LPM LaunchPad, was first released in 2012 and is the only comprehensive online certification program to help law firms and
corporate law departments gain the necessary project management skills to not only meet client expectations, but to also manage work more efficiently and improve client communications.
Corporate law departments participating in the study spent the highest percentage of outside counsel fees on litigation (37 %), followed by intellectual property (15 %) and then mergers and acquisitions (12 %).