You have just completed the draft of an important new corporate policy but need feedback from key stakeholders. You?ve saved the document in Microsoft? Word and using Adobe? Acrobat ? 7.0 Professional, you?ve enabled anyone with the Adobe Reader to provide comments and review directly on the PDF file. As the comments come back, it is important to incorporate them back into your original Word document and update any final edits.
Moving Legal Counsel Closer to the BusinessBest Practices from a Martindale-Hubbell Counsel To Counsel Forum
With corporate America struggling to rebuild public confidence, the role of in-house counsel has become more important than ever. Indeed, one of the encouraging trends for members of the corporate legal community is the extent to which senior legal counsel are being tapped as critical executive drivers of overall business policies.
The Use of Task-based Budgeting to Manage Litigation
Planning and budgeting are important for corporate law departments. Those techniques allow in-house counsel to gain greater control of litigation than is possible otherwise. They allow counsel to apply to litigation some of the basic tenets of project management. By following this approach, one can monitor the course of litigation more capably and, from that position, exert more control than is otherwise possible.
In light of the pressures bearing down on in-house counsel, it has become increasingly important for a law department to decide - in advance - how it will manage several of the tasks that fall within its domain. Here are the areas for which your department should develop strategic plans.
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