Sentences with phrase «panel firms»

Claims executives may wish to keep some of their performance measurement criteria close to the vest, but sharing the overall objectives and expectations with panel firms is essential.

Instead they want to have positive relationships with other panel firms and even discuss how they can work together for the client's benefit.

They want to know how their performance stacks up against other panel firms.

Last week we broke the news that Deutsche Bank is set to stop paying for panel firms» most junior lawyers.

More inhouse teams at large corporates are certainly collecting data on panel firm performance and Premonition's findings would presumably be of great help there.

However, current panel firms Allen & Overy, Ashurst and Norton Rose Fullbright were not reappointed as RSA reduced its panel from five firms to three.

The magic circle firm joins existing panel firms Hogan Lovells, Slaughter and May, DLA Piper, Charles Russell Speechlys, Squire Patton Boggs, Olswang and Wiggin, all of which have retained their places.

For example, one general counsel showcased technology options like Kira at a meeting of panel firms.

The $ 1.04 trillion measure contained $ 3.7 billion for disaster aid, $ 200 million of which was offset by cuts to green energy programs, including a loan account that once helped fund the now - defunct, controversial solar panel firm Solyndra.

Those firms can use CAS for other work as a way to reduce costs and so, for example, panel firm Reading - based Clarkslegal already sells CAS services to its clients.

Carillion is to make all of its recently appointed panel firms use its new low - cost arm in Newcastle for commoditised work as the FTSE 250 construction group considers offering the service to other companies or law firms.

Barclays has unveiled its eagerly awaited new panel, with all the bank's main panel firms reappointed to its coveted main roster.

The six firms were reappointed following a competitive tender process, with Nabarro the only former panel firm not to be reappointed.

One partner at a Scots panel firm told Legal Week: «It is an extremely valued contract.

The duo, which join existing panel firms Bird & Bird, CMS Cameron McKenna and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer on the core roster, have been selected to advise BT as part of its push into the sports broadcasting market.

We have been acting for the NHS since its inception in 1948 and are an original panel firm for NHS Resolution (formerly the NHS Litigation Authority), as well as being proud to call the MDU and many private healthcare providers and their insurers as clients.

On the back of Shell's recent review of its global legal panel, Simon Burnett of Balance Legal Capital examines the dangers of overemphasizing price - related factors in selecting panel firms and discusses litigation finance as an alternative means of reducing external litigation spend.

As well as contentious work, the firm provides an advisory service to clients including The Police Federation, which has instructed the firm to implement a national audit of its relationship with panel firms instructed to deal with claims on behalf of all members of the police force in England and Wales.

Simply outsourcing the work to external counsel is not always the answer as it can be expensive, cumbersome and uncoordinated involving several panel firms.

First, in conjunction with our general counsel, we vet panel firms every two years — so at the firm level we have a lot of information about practice groups, prior experience, capabilities.

He worked within the in - house legal team comprising four lawyers plus another trainee seconded from fellow Bauer panel firm Reed Smith.

Maybe develop dashboards that allow panel firms to monitor activity and then feedback insights to the client in real time?

The control and flexibility to set cap or exception rates by timekeeper role for a specified law firm or vendor on a panel

Pinsents has been selected as sole legal suppliers of the infrastructure giant's «business as usual» legal issues work, after Balfour invited its current panel firms to pitch for the role.

The Crown Estate's heavily - outsourced legal spend will be between # 10m and # 15m this year, and there is a requirement for panel firms to be very bespoke and transparent.

Since then, the total firm count of Shell's global panel firms has been reduced by more than 50 %, the majority of its matters have been transitioned to AFA's, external legal spend has been cut by more than 20 percent, and the ROI has been so significant that Shell has already created an additional legal ops support role.

This group meets quarterly with the Barclays» legal operations team to report on how they are implementing various aspects of LPM and to share «best practices» with the other panel firms.

Core specialist firms — these are of equal status and standing with panel firms and can be used in more than one place but are more specialist in their remit.

The purpose of Tesla, SpaceX (Musk's space - exploration company), and SolarCity, the solar - panel firm that recently merged with Tesla, as a group of businesses is to accelerate humanity's departure from the fossil - fuel era.

As in - house legal teams seek to professionalise their operations, with the help of organisations such as Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC), we will see more of the complex work that is usually farmed out to panel firms being dealt with in - house.

Gordon McCue, associate general counsel for strategy and coordination at Shell (pictured right), says his department has introduced an alternative fee arrangement programme that means Shell's panel firms must agree to do work on its terms.

The representatives from the panel firms, now known as their LPM Consortium, have been asked to take on projects with their peers / competitors to help Barclays further roll out LPM on its matters and across their outside counsel.

Twenty - five firms were invited to tender and contracts for the seven panel firms have been agreed to run for two years with the option of renewal.

has agreed that if a panel firm has a new solution that it wants to take from concept to pilot, and if that idea is of interest to Barclays, Barclays will back it.

Working mostly in Europe, this is of less interest to me, but I do know that e-discovery software can make a massive difference to the costs of a matter (one client reduced their law firm bill by around 80 % by using an e-discovery service rather than their panel firm).

The banking giant, which put innovation at the heart of its latest review, has agreed that if a panel firm has a new solution that it wants to take from concept to pilot, and if that idea is of interest to Barclays, Barclays will back it.

Our CLM session panelists agreed, on both the client and firm side, that panel firms are most effective when they are true partners.

(successful complaint by a barrister to FOS concerning his right to choose his own solicitors to act for him in the face of insurer insisting on a panel firm)

We have pioneered collaborative working between law firms, leading the way in encouraging clients to consider how their panel firms may work more collaboratively in order to achieve better outcomes.

Providing tools that encourage the building of trusted relationships between law firms and their clients or internal legal departments with their panel firms requires flexibility and attention to the specific requirements of the relationship.

The claimant, Hersi & Co Solicitors, was a law firm which participated in a tender for panel firms to supply immigration and asylum and mental health work to the Legal Services Commission, the predecessor to the Legal Aid Agency in the London area.

We also on - boarded our panel firms first, most of whom were already using TyMetrix 360 °, which helped with training impact.

Why not have a GC permit the panel firms to have a continuous legal data flow to these external advisers?

So, despite the high initial rejection rate from the system the panel firms are on board with it.»