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The ACC Value Champions: Combining Value Tactics to Cut Costs, Improve Predictability and Achieve Better Outcomes

By Áine Lyons

Learn how results can be multiplied when you put together any combination of in-sourcing, unbundling, alternative legal service providers, process improvement, value-based fees and technology. Whether you're looking for solutions to improve client satisfaction and cost control in litigation, M&A or patent management, these Value Champions will share proven tactics you can use.

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Do it Diligently: How a New Best Practices Process Can Slash Expenses

By Mark Garfinkel - Founder and CEO, Diligence International LLC

How are good compliance and due diligence programs the safeguard of a successful company? They protect against potential legal liability and financial hardship. They preserve the sanctity of a corporate reputation. There's another upside to this type of programming: done correctly, it can also cut company costs.

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Outsourced Legal Services: Identifying Best Practices

By Andrew Goodman, Michel Sahyoun and Philip Algieri

This paper focuses on best practices and processes that allow a client and LPO provider to form a partnership that meets the client’s legal needs while effectively controlling associated costs.

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BEST OF ACC CHAPTERS Issues in Mediation & Arbitration for Corporate Counsel

By The Honorable John W. (Jack) Cooley - former United States Magistrate; The Honorable Joy V. Cunningham - Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Northwestern Memorial Healthcare; The Honorable Gino L. DiVito - former Justice of the Illinois Appellate Court; Anita M. Rowe - Past President, Association of Conflict Resolution, Chicago Chapter.

Covers mediation processes and the difference between mediation and arbitration.

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The Contractual Cogitator: Audubon, Killed Birds, and Dead Contracts

By Bob Feldman - deputy general counsel, Computer Sciences Corporation

John James Audubon shot and killed birds (which he then ate to avoid waste) so he could better portray avian species in accurate detail. Mimicking Audubon's experience, we can learn a lot about contracts by studying the dead ones, although eating them is out of the question.