April 2010

Wednesday, April 7, 2010 to Wednesday, April 7, 2010

The current pressures on law departments are such that they will need to become more specific and granular in their selection of outside counsel. Rather than the age-old debate of "choose the lawyer" versus "choose the law firm," law departments will need to assemble teams of individuals to represent their companies in specific matters-litigation or otherwise. While some law departments have already formed teams-via several of their "networked law firms" working together on one or more matters-it is becoming increasingly prudent for in-house lawyers to dig into the firms and other organizations with which they're familiar to select individuals or groups to form ad hoc, cross-organizational teams. This program will address the implications of this more-granular approach to the identification and selection of outside counsel. How might that approach affect or change the nature of the relationship between in-house and outside counsel? What tools and techniques will law departments need in order to implement such an approach?