Capitol insiders indicate that a move to eliminate Act 32, which allows school districts to move forward on energy
efficiency projects outside of revenue limits, may still be in the works.
Last year, through a town hall announcement, BMO's legal and corporate compliance team was asked to create teams and come up with
projects with an eye to process improvement, finding
efficiencies and ideas around how they could work differently with
outside counsel.
I believe that as in - house counsel learn the value of modern business tools and methods designed to increase
efficiency and effectiveness; such as
project management, knowledge management, business intelligence, and so on; they will increasingly demand use of those same tools and methods by their favoured
outside counsel.
According to the 2014 Altman Weil Chief Legal Officer and Law Firms in Transition Surveys, many priorities on both sides relate to the inside -
outside counsel relationship — more specifically,
efficiency and effective
project management.
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