Sentences with phrase «of outside law firms»

Corporate counsel are exercising increased bargaining power about fees and terms of employment of outside law firms.

Taking time on the front - end to ensure that the needs of your outside law firms are also addressed will greatly increase the likelihood that a value - based pricing program is successful.

They're looking for cuts across the board and the continuously rising cost of outside law firms continues to be a challenge.

A lot of outside law firms are not comfortable with social media so they don't think of the gems.

Now that corporations are consolidating the number of outside law firms in many instances, the costs of retrenching from a firm that has pursued a flawed strategy could be high.

Corporate clients, under intense internal pressure to reduce the overall costs of legal services, insisted on taking control of their matters and managing the work of their outside law firms to a degree never before seen.

In 2007, United Technologies» general counsel created a program to discourage its hundreds of outside law firms from using hourly rates, and over the past five years the company has significantly increased its use of non-hourly fees, Greenspan said.

However, nearly a third of CLOs have fired or are considering firing at least one of their outside law firms this year.

Even though I work at one of those outside law firms, this has always made total sense to me: «The survey also found that bringing the e-discovery process in - house is a common and effective way to control spending.