Legal Sourcing 101

A recent article in ISM on “crashing the legal department” had some great advice on what you need to do when helping your General Counsel source legal services.

  • You must take the lead in proposing alternate fee arrangements.
  • You must take the lead in finding out what “XYZ” task really costs.
  • You must figure out how waste can be driven out of the system.
  • You must insure that the firms you select can get your rates with the product and service providers they could also make use of.
  • You must help to quicken the death of the billable hour.

For more advice on how you can help decrease legal costs, see:

… here on Sourcing Innovation and

  • e-Discovery + e-Sourcing = e-Normous Savings
  • e-Discovery Stage 1: Ending the Cold War
  • e-Discovery Stage 2: Understand the Risk Profile
  • e-Discovery Stage 3: Execute with Efficiency
  • Sourcing Legal Services Gaining Momentum

… over on e-Sourcing Forum.

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