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 10 little secrets of working in-house |
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Litigation media management - if you can't 'manage' the media, 8 tips to help manage the message |
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Customer service: putting it right - dealing with poor customer service reflects excellence |
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Standard terms to rule over them - supplier standard terms
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Ready, fire, aim - When the issue is not developing great strategy but implementation |
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10 tips to determine if your RFP is a toxic tool - design tips for tenders/RFPs for legal services |
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RFPs & tenders - should we really? - what's the alternative? |
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Seeing through your clients' eyes - six steps beyond client surveys |
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Coaching and the 'Skill-Will Matrix' - adapt managing style to their needs |
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Organizational culture - the importance of culture on strategic effectiveness |
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Metrics that matter - 'satisfied' clients; loyal promoters or passive users? |
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Legal leaders use Matrix to expand time - leverage expertise to free time |
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Email disclaimers - the modern emperor's clothes? |
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How many lawyers are too many? - finding the 'right' size legal department |
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Legal stars (part 2) - management tools for the people in legal departments |
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Legal stars (part 1) - management tools for the people in legal departments |
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When less lawyering is more - not just application of legal skills |
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The flip side of client relations - involve external counsel in different ways |
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Make or buy? - 10 hidden tigers - optimal insource/ outsource mix |
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I'm a lawyer, not a marketer, right? - demonstrate strategic value |
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Matter management 101 - enabling legal departments do more with less. |
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Retreating forward - 10 steps for a successful 'offsite' - a template
Also see: New era of team building needed - study isolates key factors for offsite success
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Contextual ethics and brand value - a hypothetical on 'borrowing' ideas |
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10 steps towards helping the CFO - the finance side for in-house counsel |
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Inside, Outside - outsourced legal departments |
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How do you motivate lawyers? - does cash - lots of it - drive lawyers?
Also see: "Legal culture and motivated teams" (below)
And: What's driving motivation - Global research isolates non-financial factors, and record numbers considering leaving
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Compliance programs that connect - part of organisational culture
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Connecting with outside counsel - bridging the gap
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10 golden rules of negotiation - 'rules' of corporate negotiation?
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Litigation
hourly billing - the gap between value add & legal fees |
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Offshoring
- the dawn of international legal skills arbitrage? |
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Better
governance - ditch the legal budget? - a provocative viewpoint |
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Rules
of engagement and when to break them - free to be creative |
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Legal
culture and motivated teams -
motivating lawyers
Also see: "How do you motivate lawyers?" (above)
And: What's driving motivation - Global research isolates non-financial factors, and record numbers considering leaving
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Professional
standards - beyond conduct rules - GC & a partner talk |
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No
place for ‘transferred arrogance’ with outside
counsel |
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Compliance
and the effect of organisational culture |
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FORTHCOMING COLUMNS |
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Of mugshots and elevator pitches - lawyer selection without the complexities |
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Seven time tips for busy lawyers - timesaving tips |
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Are we Googling ourselves stupid? - are new skills destroying our ability to think? |
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Lawyers as Gatekeepers - outside counsel more independent or better at intercepting wrongdoing than in-house counsel? |
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Selecting law firms; a two way street - Law firms' frank assessment of in-house counsel 'best practices' selecting firms |
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It would be a shame to waste a good recession - bright future for relationship between in-house and outside counsel with aligned interests and value at its core |
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The end of in-house lawyers? - with law firm models changing Richard Susskind offers legal department strategies |
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Ten quick ways to cut costs - need to cut the legal budget by 10 or 20%? |
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Litigation cost management - revolution or evolution? - new solutions to align litigation costs and organizational goals |
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Lifting the in-house counsel brand: how do you rate? - recognized legal strategist? Take the test |
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Liar, Liar - Seven "Bet the Company" Risk Management Cues - opportunities for lawyers on 'top-end' risk management |
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The Smarter Legal Model: More From Less - key business techniques demonstrating the value of the legal function |
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The best clients and most client-focused law firms - you do a great job, and select the best firms; a cross-check |
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iPad 2 - passing fad or laptop replacement? - is the iPad 2 mostly a media consumption device, or does it let you create, manipulate and distrubute work product seamlessly enough to ditch the laptop? |
