This Leading Practices Profile describes the structure of law departments and the role of general counsel in Canada in providing in-house legal services to support multinational businesses. In-house counsel from eight companies reveal how their in-house legal departments are structured and operate, and how they manage the various functions of their law departments, including compliance, technology, retention of outside counsel and providing value to the corporations
they serve.
This ACC Value Practice piece highlights the law department's practices for creating and managing alternative fee/value-based arrangements and related invoice and billing practices to help efficiently track and manage legal budgets.
A law department implements a three-prong approach to process employee complaints, handling them in-house with good results.
Small law departments can successfully implement alternative fee/value-based arrangements. See how Wolverine World Wide, Inc.'s law department is working with outside counsel to handle its portfolio of securities legal work.
Toyota Motor Sales, USA uses "hoshin" practice to align its legal department with the internal business clients. This Value Practice illustrates how hoshin enhances internal communications and performance.
GE Canada implemented a process to select strategic partner firms to provide services with added value. This Value Practice lists the key steps GE Canada took and end results.
The Clorox Company, after implementing a program focused on cost savings and driving incremental value, realized a significant cost savings in intellectual property matters.
Setting and managing budgets, training, use of quarterly reports, and how the budget performance is measured by CIGNA's law department, is discussed in this value practice.
This resource describes how Confluence Law Partners is structured to approach alternative fee arrangements in an IP litigation case.
Highlights a quarterly review process with key business leaders of Southern California Edison Company and how the General Counsel uses a balanced scorecard approach to demonstrate the law department's value. Also highlighted their practice of charging in-house legal budget for all legal costs.