Sentences with phrase «used by your outside counsel»

, the Association of Corporate Counsel and the Practical Law Company «What is the single most innovative practice proposed or used by your outside counsel in the last twelve months?»

Forty five Chief Legal Officers located in Europe were asked by Altman Weil, the Association of Corporate Counsel and the Practical Law Company «What is the single most innovative practice proposed or used by your outside counsel in the last twelve months?»

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Democrats want to use $ 35 million in bond premiums — essentially money generated by borrowing more than needed at higher interest rates — and cutting police overtime by reopening two closed police precincts and reducing the use of outside counsel.

These proposals include tough new anti-bribery and anti-corruption laws, a test of public financing of elections at the state level using the 2014 Comptroller's race, the establishment of an independent enforcement counsel at the Board of Elections, increased transparency of political contributors to independent expenditure committees and disclosure of the outside clients or customers of State Legislators who had been referred by registered lobbyists.

Even if your legal department is primarily tasked with managing large number of matters handled by outside counsel, the efficient use of LegalMation by your outside counsel can dramatically lower billable hours on key litigation tasks, providing direct - to - the - bottom - line savings for your company.

A corporate legal department can save that amount each lawsuit just on this initial phase of discovery by utilizing LegalMation themselves or retaining outside counsel that uses LegalMation.

Other recent reports and survey by consultant / polling companies further show that U.S. corporate counsel are paring down the number of outside counsel used and are consolidating their outside counsel into «hubs» which work together to provide services to the client corporation.

I can't imagine that Thomas Vinje (again, he's Oracle's outside counsel for EU antitrust matters) would want Java to be excluded from use by European governments under the terms of the EIF.

Industries that use and depend on legal services can make both quantitative and qualitative assessments about such things as the value added by outside counsel.

The rankings are determined based on searches public records to find outside counsel used by the Fortune 500 across seven key litigation areas.

Interestingly, 36 % said the catalyst for the use of an AFA was a mutual effort between inside and outside counsel, though 60 % say such negotiations were initiated by the corporate legal department.

In addition to the issues mentioned above, the SRA Report also discusses the practice of clients using Outside Counsel Guidelines (i.e. «detailed, mandatory sets of terms and conditions» imposed by clients on the signing of a retainer).

In a recent talk, Lolita Chavez, co-ordinator of the K'iche People's Counsel, an indigenous human rights defender from Guatemala, spoke about how the law is used to wear people down, outside of the eye of the cameras, by creating false claims which must be answered and require money activists don't have.

I believe that as in - house counsel learn the value of modern business tools and methods designed to increase efficiency and effectiveness; such as project management, knowledge management, business intelligence, and so on; they will increasingly demand use of those same tools and methods by their favoured outside counsel.

Hosted by Elevate, this panel examines how AI is being used in areas of «managing legal» such as analytics, outside counsel selection, legal project management and legal bill review.

What these GCs are finding is a better way to optimize their departmental budgets by engaging outside counsel using value - based pricing, rather than the customary hourly rate.

Key Metric # 2: Law Firm Consolidation — Number of Legal Vendors Used by Corporations 55 % of companies in the data pool have 10 firms or fewer accounting for at least 80 % of outside counsel fees Based on trailing 12 - months ending June 30, 2015

Once a business chooses a technology, implementation can prove difficult, and it often requires a multidisciplinary approach as Mike McQueeney, in - house counsel at Pearson, explains with two examples: The first focused on e-billing technology that he and his team «implemented by first lining up our policies and using our outside counsels» guidelines.»

Legal spend management is a widely used term by both inside and outside counsel, and other players within the industry.

In essence, the legal department now uses a systematic, closed - loop process by which to measure outside counsel partners and makes direct comparisons on matter pricing.

Consider using a third party hosted database or application service provider (ASP) if there are any anticipated limitations on the amount of data that can be handled by outside counsel or if access by multiple firms or companies is required.

It also provides a transparent process for the use of outside counsel contracts by the state.

Used properly, therefore, a budget may facilitate management by the client and outside counsel of any significant matter, and it should reduce misunderstandings and surprises and thus enhance the relationship between the client and outside counsel.

Key Metric # 2: Law Firm Consolidation — Number of Legal Vendors Used by Corporations 54 % of companies in the data pool have 10 firms or fewer accounting for at least 80 % of outside counsel fees Based on trailing 12 - months ending December 31, 2013

Key Metric # 2: Law Firm Consolidation — Number of Legal Vendors Used by Corporations 51 % of companies in the data pool have 10 firms or fewer accounting for at least 80 % of outside counsel fees Based on trailing 12 months ending December 31, 2014

A report released last month by ALM Legal Intelligence in the U.S. showed more corporate clients were using AFAs in 2012 to determine how to pay outside counsel.

Qadeer effectively tackled this challenge by using outside counsel as partners, by networking and sharing extensively with other GCs, and by joining industry groups and CLO groups for knowledge sharing.

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