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26 Sep 2011, 10:11 am by Gerry Riskin
  Author Susan Hansen says: Valorem… now boasts a list of big, brand-name clients, including funeral industry giant Service Corporation International; national shoe retailer DSW Inc.; Veolia Water, a supplier of water and wastewater management services; and the online travel site kayak.com. [read post]
16 Jul 2013, 2:00 am
AFAs and RFPs, PDQ Some clients have continued experimenting with Alternative Fee Arrangements (AFAs) and have expanded their use of Requests for Proposals (RFPs) in securing legal work. [read post]
20 Apr 2010, 1:10 pm by Jordan Furlong
The other thing that emerges from this Survey is that large corporate clients aren’t doing nearly enough to promote AFA relationships with their outside counsel. [read post]
25 Feb 2013, 2:00 am
Corporations have begun to push back on the standard annual increase in lawyers' billing rates. [read post]
25 Sep 2012, 10:00 pm by Jim Hassett
” The firm has refined another innovative technique for using AFAs to bring in new clients with a type of antitrust proposal that is unusual for a large corporate firm. [read post]
24 Jun 2012, 6:53 pm by Ron
Last week the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) announced the 2012 ACC Value Champions, 12 winners of awards that recognizes “effectively driving value by cutting spending, improving predictability and achieving better legal outcomes. [read post]
31 Oct 2022, 9:05 am by Casey Flaherty
In theory, this guidance need not come from traditional lawyer-delivered services but, in practice, still largely does. [read post]
11 Feb 2019, 3:15 pm by Rob Robinson
The use of alternative fee arrangements (AFA) rose only two percent, even though more than a third of corporate counsel in last year’s survey anticipated that they would be relying on AFA increasingly. [read post]
13 Nov 2012, 10:00 pm by Jim Hassett
  Then, in 2008, two things happened: the economy declined, and the Association of Corporate Counsel announced its Value Challenge, mobilizing action around its declaration that “Many traditional law firm business models...are not aligned with what corporate clients want and need: value-driven, high-quality legal services that deliver solutions for a reasonable cost. [read post]
8 Feb 2017, 11:01 am
In a nutshell, they give the corporate legal departments a way to create early case assessments on cases in which the corporation is involved. [read post]
25 Apr 2012, 8:29 am by Scott Michelman
The Arbitration Fairness Act (AFA), now pending in Congress, would eliminate forced arbitration in consumer and non-union employment contracts. [read post]
29 Jun 2010, 10:00 pm by Jim Hassett
  Corporate responses to healthcare cost growth has been simple: switch vendors or reduce available benefits. [read post]
2 Sep 2010, 10:07 am by Larry Bodine
 Why do some GCs make a show of complaining about the cost of legal services when they do almost nothing to materially change things? [read post]
19 Jul 2019, 5:10 am by Rob Robinson
Companies reported using a number of techniques to control their overall costs including leveraging alternative fee arrangements (AFAs), preferred provider panels, alternative legal service providers, and moving more work in house. [read post]