The addition of more in - house counsel talent has increased scrutiny on litigation firms as general counsel conduct more thorough
evaluation of their outside firms.
Depending on company size and budget, there are
plenty of outside firms skilled in creating personalized employee wellness programs.
Hiring outside counsel allows for a clearer application of attorney — client privilege to communications and work -
product of the outside firm, especially where corporation counsel has both business and legal functions.
In a six - month span, they generated just over 15 percent of the invoices, and less than four
percent of outside firm costs.
Unfortunately we underestimated the
willingness of an outside firm to overpay, and in late August, Interactive Intelligence agreed to a merger agreement with Genesys, which valued ININ at $ 1.4 billion, or $ 61 / share.
They are also finding legal analytics indispensable in activities like creating a custom short -
list of outside firms to handle anticipated litigation, identifying talent for recruiting purposes, tracking trends in specific practice areas and identifying areas for business development investment.
Advising that developing and implementing a vendor management system is a multi-step process, Satkunas says that the first step is to choose the metrics that will feed into the
evaluation of outside firms, and ultimately, affect the law firm selection process.
In it, the author recounted the views of several in - house counsels as they reflected on how law a firm's blog could affect the
hiring of an outside firm.
When the University discontinued the clinic, Williams» legal department stepped in to sustain the clinic and recruited one
of its outside firms and Tulsa's largest law firm, Hall, Estill, Hardwick, Gable, Golden & Nelson, P.C., to help.