This Value Practice Resource highlights key elements of Nationwide's Approved Counsel Program (ACP) and gives insights to key success factors.
This Leading Practices Profile, an update to ACC’s 2005 Leading Practices Profile, Leading Practices in Law Departments Adding Value and Moving Beyond the Cost Center Model, features law department leading practices for generating and demonstrating value to the organization, as well as best practices for improving the bottom line and optimizing collaboration with business units. In the wake of the economic downturn and increased pressure to “do more with less,” 10 participating corporations share their best value-generating and value-sustaining practices in law department staffing, targeted practice areas, outside counsel management, strategic planning and the use of metrics to measure and track value practices.
This Value Practice resource give background and benefits to Viacom's legal department use of a matter management system for its domestic legal operations.
This Value Practice resource summarizes how the law department at Mozilla uses a customized, and free, software development tool to manage workflow, communicate with clients and track results.
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.
Read how the Office Depot law department implemented changes to fee and staffing arrangements in a variety of law areas to increase value.
This resource developed by the Law Firm Value Committee lists how law firms can add value with matter matter management, client service, understanding of in-house functions and needs, client teams and focus, fee structures, professional development, technology and library.
Read how Bombadier, Inc. interfaces with law firms to manage workloads and gain expertise during workload peaks.
This Value Practice Resource describes how Squire Sanders challenges its attorneys to remedy disconnects between costs for outside legal services and value the client receives.
Womble Carlyle's solutions to two client problems involved alternative fee arrangements. This Value Practice resource details these two scenarios and their solutions.