Sentences with phrase «ways outside law firms»

With decreased demand for outside legal services, in - house attorneys are looking for innovative ways outside law firms can bring greater value to the table.

Not exact matches

And like Brenton observed in the quote at the beginning of this post (which by the way was in reference to legal education, not outside law firms although the same concept applies), the gap between what people at CLOC are doing, saying and advocating and what most outside law firms are really doing is so broad, so vast and so deep, I'm starting to think it can never be bridged.

Directories and rankings were named as the sixth most influential factor by clients when asked to indicate the importance of different ways in helping to research outside lawyers and law firms for potential hire in a new survey of in - house counsel trends.

Though the function has come a long way, outside a handful of notable exceptions, most law firm leaders still have some semblance of the «I don't get it» mindset «when it comes to the professional management of marketing and business development.

If you worked your way through all the firm lawyers and back to a law department, you might get a different answer about what outside lawyers do for the companies they represent.

One of the most common mistakes made by law firms is to assume that the only way to minimize the damage from cybersecurity attacks is to put in place perimeter security technologies — firewalls, antivirus software, etc. — that «wall - off» the firm from outside attacks.

For some law departments, this has meant a sea change in the way they do business with their outside law firms.

Thus, it's been mostly non-lawyers, from both inside and outside of the industry, who've seized the opportunity to systematically apply common sense to the manner in which lawyers work and the way in which law firms operate.

We use this information to help us make smarter decisions about how we assign matters to outside counsel and we also share it with our law firm partners in order to help them find ways of doing things more efficiently.»

After a charge from the CEO to put in place a state - of - the - art system for managing the company's litigation portfolio, the claims team spearheaded an effort to identify a matter management software system that would automate the way the company interacted with its outside law firms.

«I really see a convergence of new technology and new outside support services that are, in a way, combining to enable law firms to be far more efficient,» he explained.

Law firms need to be free to grant billing access to the firm's staff or outside parties such as bookkeepers, but they need to do so in a way that safeguards sensitive information.

Legal directories are a fixture of the legal industry, and most law firms engage to some extent with them as a way of promoting their practices to the outside world.

'' Chambers guides have helped me in the best way possible over the years to identify the most suitable law firm outside the Netherlands whenever our business called for engaging such counsel.

Seventy percent of inside counsel disagree with the notion that law firms are actively seeking ways to reduce the cost of their services, while 56 % of the outside lawyers believe firms are seeking to do so.

What's happening in in - house departments around the country and internationally is we are hiring more senior and more high - priced in - house counsel and we're doing that because we don't want to rely on outside counsel, so it's incumbent on law firms to come up with a way to provide services to us at rates that don't make it prohibitive,» she said.

All we need to do is step outside our traditional «law firm» box, to think entrepreneurially and focus on solving our clients» problems in the best way possible, not in the way most familiar and convenient to us.

Rather, law firms should be asking what is the best way to partner with clients to solve legal problems taking into consideration possible resources outside the scope of the law firm's operations — including legal process outsourcing providers.For example, does it make sense to staff a file with juniors when work can be outsourced to an alternate legal services provider at half the cost?

One general counsel I recently spoke with suggested it may be a way to indicate to those outside the department or at an external law firm that they are dealing with someone not necessarily at the GC level, but with a more defined role other than «legal» or «senior counsel.»

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.