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Legal Hold: A Process Guide for In-House Counsel
Your duty to preserve evidence starts before anyone files a complaint. It begins the moment litigation is reasonably anticipated, which can be the day a demand letter arrives, a regulator sends...
Fractional General Counsel: Cost, Scope and When It Makes Sense
Most growing companies hire their first general counsel long after they needed one. By then the founder has signed a stack of vendor contracts nobody reviewed, the cap table has a few loose ends,...
Data Processing Agreements: What In-House Teams Should Negotiate
Most data processing agreements arrive as a vendor’s standard addendum, and many get signed without a single redline. That works until the vendor suffers a breach, adds a subprocessor in a...
Outside Counsel Guidelines: How to Write Ones That Control Spend
Outside counsel guidelines only control spend if your law firms can follow them and your team actually enforces them. A 40-page document that partners skim once at engagement and invoice...
Legal Secondments: How They Work and What They Cost
A legal secondment puts an outside lawyer inside your legal team for a defined period, working on your matters, under your direction, as if they were a member of staff. When the period ends, they...
Specialized Legal Expertise on Demand: Why Flexible Resourcing Is Becoming a Strategic Advantage
Legal departments are being asked to do more, often without the luxury of adding permanent headcount. A new regulatory requirement can appear overnight. A transaction can suddenly accelerate....
Contract Attorney Hourly Rates: What Legal Teams Actually Pay
A contract attorney’s hourly rate can run anywhere from $75 to $750, and the number alone tells you almost nothing about whether you’re getting a good deal. The gap comes down to...
Billing Increment Chart: The 6-Minute Billing Guide for Law Firms
Six minutes doesn’t sound like much, until you multiply a rounding habit across every timekeeper on a legal team for a full year. A firm that consistently rounds up by even one increment...
CRM Systems for Law Firms: A Buyer’s Guide
Most law firm CRM rollouts fail for a reason that has nothing to do with the software. The tool gets selected, purchased, and half-configured, and then nobody owns the ongoing work of keeping...