Whether you’re a novice or a legal spend management professional, our A to Z is a go-to guide for all legal spend terminology. A AMLaw100: This is a list published annually by the American Lawyer, ranking law firms by size and economic performance. It has been around since 1987 and…
An introduction to Legal Panels
Creating a Legal Panel is one way to ensure you maximise value for money and obtain the best possible level of service from your external legal firms. What is a Legal Panel? A Legal Panel is a group of external law firms, lawyers or legal providers chosen by an organisation.…
Using an Legal Invoice Review service in addition to an EBilling tool
In companies with significant legal spend, eBilling is pretty much the norm. For busy corporate legal departments, eBilling can significantly reduce the administrative burden on busy legal professionals and provide real-time benefits through systemised checking of invoices. What we would say as consultants, however, is that like any system, eBilling…
The benefits of using Legal Invoice Review alongside your eBilling system
Scott Anderson, Senior Legal Procurement Consultant eBilling systems have become really popular over the years because of the results they deliver. Payment of law firm invoices becomes easier for both the client and the firm, and you have more of a handle on your legal budget through analysis of your…
We’re hiring: Business Analyst (Tableau)
We are looking for a Business Analyst (Tableau) to join our award-winning team, initially on a temporary basis. Your role would involve delivering “best in class” management information for key clients, ensuring timely and accurate reporting. Other duties will include analysis of data in Microsoft Excel and preparing client presentations.…
Diversity in the Legal industry
Can more be done to tackle diversity?By Caroline O’Grady, Partner, Coote O’Grady Earlier this year, I read with interest when I saw that more than 170 General Counsel and Chief Legal Officers had signed an open ‘call to action’ letter, pledging to direct their outside counsel spend to firms demonstrating…
Legal Spend Matters – June edition now available
The June edition introduces the idea of a Legal Spend Health Check The latest edition of Legal Spend Matters, our monthly e-newsletter, is now available. In this month’s edition, we discuss the idea of a Legal Spend Health Check. If you’re a General Counsel or work within an ’in-house Legal…
Are you in need of a Legal Spend Health Check?
Diagnostics for in-house Legal teams It’s a question that every in-house Legal team or CFO frequently find themselves asking: Why do so many of our legal matters or projects go over budget, despite our best efforts to keep a handle on our costs? If this is something you frequently identify…
What are Alternative Fee Arrangements (AFAs)?
Alternative Fee Arrangements, or AFAs, are an alternative agreement to being billed at an hourly rate. AFAs have been the subject of much debate over the last few years within the legal sector, however they are growing in popularity with clients due to the certainty that they provide. Types of…
Legal Spend Matters – May edition now available
The May 2019 edition is about eDiscovery/eDisclosure RFP The latest edition of Legal Spend Matters, our monthly e-newsletter, is now available. In this month’s edition, we focus on eDiscovery projects. This time last year, we won a World Procurement Award for our work on a global eDiscovery project, where we…