Until those owners and executives make serious use of their purchasing power to make this happen — I don't expect much cost control in legal or much
systematic liability prevention.
Redesign the company's law and regulatory function for management effectiveness —
actual liability prevention, right talent for the particular job (not sending surgeons to do the work of an orderly — or vice versa), and cost control through business process disciplines).
Following my own experiences as a practicing lawyer and later as an executive (see more here), I've concluded that attorneys are good at deploying technical legal expertise, but that they are unskilled in managing people, poor at cost control, and are either uninterested or undisciplined about
proactive liability prevention.
A significant part of his practice centers on the special legal problems associated with production, marketing, and distribution of products and services, including the selection and termination of distribution channels, pricing, advertising and promotional programs, competition law compliance, intellectual property protection, and
products liability prevention.
And lawyers as an industry continue to emphasize a passive «let - me - know - when - there's - a-problem» posture instead of
systematic liability prevention.
Defense of restaurants, shopping malls, and other retail businesses in a variety of premises liability claims, and client counsel
on liability prevention.
He has experience in a wide variety of matters, including product - related class actions, product
liability prevention and litigation, supply chain disputes (including with long - term agreements (LTAs) that range from hundreds of thousands of dollars to several billion dollars), intellectual property disputes, and environmental matters.
But they're bad at cost control and
liability prevention.
In this blog I describe how to use effective management and
liability prevention to control corporate legal costs.
What owners and executives need an honest broker on their side of the lawyer / client table to secure the technical legal expertise that they actually need from their lawyers — and to achieve the cost control and
liability prevention that their lawyers don't give them.
I consult with your owners and executives to enable you them to reorganize your law and regulatory compliance function for cost - effectivenessfor cost control and
liability prevention..