In May, the Association of Corporate Counsel named several “Value Champions”—legal departments that, through legal operations efforts, including improved use of technology, have found a way to fulfill the mandate facing many in-house lawyers today: Do more with less.
One of this year’s winners was Ricoh USA. The ACC honored the imaging, printing, copying and document management company for its partnership with outside counsel Reed Smith. The two developed a shared software tool to track employment litigation matters and create a “knowledge center” accessible by in-house employment lawyers and select employees from Ricoh’s human resources and risk management departments.
