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Getting Away from the Hourly Rate - Ready Set Go Part 4

Department leaders profiled here offer vital advice on how to capture and use metrics results to drive enhanced law department and outside counsel performance.

This Leading Practices Profile presents themes, trends and leading contingent worker practices of six legal departments, a professional association and one law firm in managing contingent workforces and mitigating risks associated with these types of workforces.

This Leading Practices Profile examines knowledge sharing and management practices of six companies and two law firms. Organizations featured in this Profile described practices and approaches for managing and sharing knowledge across a variety of industries, as well as law firms.

ACC is pleased to encourage student scholarship by publishing this paper, authored by Sam Krause, a student in the Georgetown University Law Center course, In-House Counsel: Law and Practice, taught by former ACC CEO Fred Krebs and Russell Stevenson. Congratulations to Sam Krause on writing a very informative paper.

Getting Away from the Hourly Rate - The Counterproductive Effects of Billing Time Part 2 of 4

This Leading Practices Profile continues the series of ACC Leading Practices Profiles examining the role of law department leaders and in-house counsel in managing the legal affairs of companies doing business abroad.

This ACC Value Practice piece highlights the Zurich North America law department’s practices relating to performance/value assessments for outside counsel, billing and convergence

in this interview, Brad Nielson, Shell's general counsel for Global Litigation, discusses Shell's innovative, value-focused approach to litigation and matter/spend management, including pricing, training, and the use of project management tools not only to keep matters on track, but importantly, to prevent future litigation.

Anti-corruption is an important issue to address with your company. In this Leading Practice Profile, six companies explain how they implement and monitor their successful anti-corruption programs. It will also trace the evolution of anti-corruption laws.