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The pressing question for in-house legal is not whether alternative fee arrangements will be used but rather how to ensure the best ROI from AFAs....

For real change to happen, companies must be willing to have let go of firms that don't improve. Here's how these Consero panelists leveraged data to support their DE&I initiatives....

The current trend is to use outside counsel less to save, but legal can still get stuck on determining when to give work to in house counsel or to outsource....

Efficient outside counsel management is more than cutting hours to reduce spend. It’s about creating relationships and giving the right tasks to the right vendor....

It’s much easier to create a shared, objective definition of success with your vendors when you can reliably track vendor performance metrics to incorporate into their evaluations....

Diversity in law gives rise to innovation and increased profitability — but is hiring diverse candidates enough? Here are four more things you should be doing to achieve DEI....

With budgets a little tighter than usual these days, understanding how your law firms approach pricing can shape your conversations to uncover areas for cost savings. Watch the webinar....

All relationships require work, and the business relationship between legal ops teams and their vendors is no exception. Unfortunately, legal ops teams often rely on a single, pre-existing connec...

Outside counsel guidelines (OCG) vary widely by company and sometimes span hundreds of pages, theoretically covering every possible situation that can arise between in-house and outside counsel. ...

Legal Ops professionals from Veritas and Snowflake discuss best practices for billing guidelines, getting buy-in from peers and outside counsel as well solutions to common issues....

Leveraging law firms and legal vendors is a critical component of many corporate legal departments. But how do you ensure the law firms you’re working with are the right ones who provide the be...

Maximizing outside counsel performance is part trial and error and part effective management. Whether you are just starting with law firms or have dozens (if not hundreds) of vendors, here are fo...

This whitepaper highlights 5 steps for in-house teams starting or evaluating a vendor management program....

Looking to create, update, or better enforce your billing guidelines? This whitepaper outlines best practices as well as sample text to help you get the most out of yours....

Do you think about your law firms when selecting an e-Billing provider? This whitepaper highlights 8 criteria to consider to ensure adoption by your law firms as well as your legal department....

New to accruals or looking for a better way to manage them? This guide shares best practices for collecting unbilled estimates, the 4 types of accruals, who should be involved, and much more!...

Stop chasing your law firms for monthly estimates! Download our template which provides a framework to train your outside counsel on properly calculating and submitting accruals....

Corporate legal departments are placing significant weight on their law firms’ commitment to provide a diverse staff to perform legal services across all practice areas. In fact, more than a th...

The billing process naturally introduces tension between in-house legal teams and law firms. Surprise fees that lack justification, unauthorized charges, invoices submitted weeks or months after ...

Only 48% of law firms respond to requests for month end accruals. We have four key ways to increase that number, giving you more control over your legal budget....

Since the publication of the GC Open Letter, announcing a real-time exercise to test industry assumptions to better understand how to improve the legal market, there’s been a lot of chatter aro...

“Just because it’s obvious doesn’t mean it’s easy. A lot of legal operations are complex, for sure. But a lot of what we do is putting common sense into motion.” These resonant words fr...

Part of the challenge as a general counsel is getting the best work out of your outside counsel for the best value. Even with good intentions, it doesn’t always pan out this way. Your prioritie...