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This course material helps define legal operations, as well as its application, history, roles and many different forms.

Document production Request List for Knowledge Transfer: Contract Life-Cycle Management and Playbook Design

A workbook designed to guid in-house counsel as they consider whether and how to improve operation of their law departments through legal process outsourcing.

Many companies lack a formal process for contract administration. Many others have a contract process which is in need of updating or improvement. This program session will review the lifecycle of contracts and highlight ways to develop and improve a company’s formalized contracting process. This session will emphasize practical tips that can be used to implement a contract management system and enforce up-to-date contracting policies, including who should be responsible for running the process, how contracts should be routed within the organization, signing authority, electronic contract management systems, monitoring contract compliance, and record retention.

Like many of the contracts in-house attorneys are tasked with drawing up and overseeing, developing commercial contracts involves a number of steps. This article provides you with each step in the process, discusses the challenges involved and new approaches to help address those challenges, and offers an example of how one such contract was created and implemented.

Managing outsourcing relationships and negotiating technology solutions can prove to be difficult for in-house counsel, especially if they are brought into the process too late to be effective. This article discusses the benefits of adding counsel to the acquisition team early on in order to immediately influence the direction of the negotiations and ensure a more effective outcome for the client.

This Wisdom of the Crowd, compiled from questions and responses posted on various ACC Committee eGroups, addresses the issues of establishing a bonus program for General Counsel. The issues discussed include general counsel hourly compensation arrangements, bonus structures, and bonus program metrics.

This program will address key issues in contract drafting, negotiation, execution and management. Such issues will include the role of counsel in the drafting process, drafting techniques with regard to recitals, definitions, primary and economic operating provisions, representations and warranties, and convenants and conditions. A discussion will also be held on how a legal department can become a better facilitator in the contracting process. It is expected that the presenters will include both inside and outside counsel, and the attendees will be provided with realistic examples from which to develop additional skills.

Case Study <br />- Improving Contracting Process at Discover Financial<br />- Over Hauling Law Department Operations at PG&E

This Top Ten provides a checklist and guidance for the management of contracts, from negotiation to ongoing review of the business relationship.