Sentences with phrase «outside corporate legal services»

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David Moran, senior director for product management, legal analytics portfolio, told me during a preview yesterday that corporate legal departments that had been testing this service had seen savings of 4 to 8 percent off outside counsel invoices, even after the firms had been given the opportunity to correct invoice entries and remedy non-compliance with billing rules.

There still doesn't seem to be a standard, agreed - upon definition of «legal operations» since the responsibilities cover a wide - range of areas including the general efficiency of legal work, cybersecurity, privacy, compliance, eDiscovery, policy management, and definitely the streamlining of relationships between the corporate legal department and outside counsel and service providers.

Hubbard One joins FindLaw on the heels of FindLaw's acquisition of Glasser LegalWorks and the launch of the Thomson Legal Record, an innovative service that enables in - house corporate counsel to do due diligence by researching the litigation track record of outside lawyers and law firms.

Things like how an LLC versus Corporate setup affects deductions and how land ownership of trusts can complicate Farm Service Agency (FSA) payments are issues that are outside of legal expertise in the strictest sense.

Of more direct application to corporate counsel, the proposed Rule 5.5 (d) would permit an outside lawyer to provide legal services in New York that «are provided to the lawyer's employer or its organizational affiliates and are not services for which the forum requires pro hac vice admission.»

With corporate counsel, law firms and outside service providers mobilizing to deal with the data security threat confronting our industry, more legal professionals are debating the idea of moving to a «hosted» model for managing litigation software and data.

With corporate counsel, law firms and outside service providers mobilizing to deal with the data security threat confronting our industry, more legal professionals are debating the idea of moving to a «hosted» model for managing litigation... Read More»

The irony is that those barriers — prohibitions of outside investment in law firms; profit - sharing with «non-lawyers», corporate structure; and inter-disciplinary practice — have been circumnavigated by in - house legal departments and service providers.

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Law schools should not be focusing on appellate advocacy but rather on delivering legal services to an increasingly disenfranchised public, and a corporate world increasingly skeptical about the value of outside counsel.

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.

Many law firms and corporate legal departments alike are wrestling with the decision about whether to partner with an outside service provider to host their litigation data and litigation software applications or to stick with internal resources for this important litigation support.

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.

The other side is «identifying» key people involved in the discovery project management and enforcement of the litigation hold, such as corporate legal counsel, personnel from IT and records management departments, outside counsel and discovery consultants and service providers.

If on the other hand one views the 2008/2009 crisis as a once - in - a-generation event that has caused a significant economic reset — that the balance of power in legal services has shifted in favour of corporate counsel and the «more for less» mantra is more than just a passing fad, outside counsel should pay very close attention to the lesson learned here.

Initiatives like the Association of Corporate Counsel's Value Challenge and Legal Services Management Workshop, and the changes that many general counsel have made to outside counsel management and fee structures, have created a field on which innovation is possible, indeed essential.