The Online LawPartnering^SM Manual comprises the Institute's basic instruction materials. We've taken the best submissions from corporate and law firm faculty members in our past national partnering forums and combined them into a comprehensive online resource. View the Table of Contents (PDF format). The one-time subscription fee permits you to access the online Manual and Guidelines, including all future additions to this expanding resource.

Produced in cooperation with the American Corporate Counsel Association, this national forum was designed to address the growing interest among law department leaders in the benefits of strategic partnering relationships with outside legal services providers. Mark Samuels, Asst. VP - Region Counsel Operations, USAA, reported this was, "The best seminar I have ever attended." View the Program Agenda (PDF format).

Learn how America's best-run companies are enhancing the quality and reducing the cost of their legal services through strategic partnering and convergence programs that positively impact the corporate bottom line. Case studies from DuPont Legal, Heller Financial and United Parcel Service. View the Program Agenda (PDF format).

Learn how America's best-run law firms are growing their practices, enhancing their services and increasing profits through innovative strategic partnerships with their key clients. Sponsored by Legal Reseach Center, Merrill Corporation, Spherion Corporation, West Group and other leading companies. View the Program Agenda (PDF format).

In this first-of-its-kind practical guide, Peter Zeughauser, former General Counsel of the Irvine Corporation and former Chairman of the American Corporate Counsel Association, gives you the inside perspective on how clients view their relationships with outside counsel, what clients expect and want to feel about the services they pay for, and what it takes to forge profitable, long-term relationships in today's highly competitive legal market. Jeffrey Kindler, former Executive Vice President of McDonald's Corporation calls this work "an indispensable resource for all of us who seek to take the client/lawyer relationship to the next level."

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Through a unique partnering program, the Legal Services department at Heller Financial managed to achieve a negative compound annual growth rate in inside and outside legal costs over the same five-year period that the company was more than doubling its asset size and nearly tripling its new business volume. This work by the company's former and current General Counsel details how Heller's Legal Services achieved these spectacular results by first redefining its own role and then approaching relationships with outside counsel from the perspective of long-term, mutually beneficial partnerships.

A step-by-step look at the internal and external counsel relationship, focusing on areas of performance enhancement, performance quality, outcomes enrichment, and cost-effectiveness from the viewpoints of both counsel settings. Important practice tips and practical detail include billing models and procedures, fees and disbursements, staffing, dispute resolution, conflicts and use of technology.

This landmark publication is the definitive guide to what clients want from their law firms, how corporations spend their legal dollars, how they spend and allocate their dollars with their outside counsel, and where the legal profession is heading.