Consulting for Law Departments

We work with law department and claims litigation management teams to develop and implement transformative strategies that generate superior legal and financial outcomes to meet emerging challenges.  

An Organizing Framework To Create

Superior Performance

Preventive Law

Strategies to Head-off Future Legal Entanglements

Legal Risk Management

Strategies for Improving Risk Management

Core Competencies

Strategies to Ensure Your Department's Expertise is Aligned With Company

Needs

Post-Convergence Partnering

Strategies for Getting the Most From Partnering

Performance Benchmarking

Strategies for Tracking and Reporting

Your Department's Contribution to

Company Objectives

Technology Utilization

Selecting the Right Technology to

Achieve the Outcomes You Need

Professional Coaching For Law Executives

Looking for a personalized and confidential way to improve your management and leadership skills? After working with successful executive officers for 34 years, I can help you work out the kinks, refocus your management style and help you transform your leadership.

Steve Nowlan

 

Interested in legal reform?  The American Justice Partnership is a national nonprofit coalition of leading corporations, think tanks, foundations, trade associations, individuals and organizations advocating for legal reform, primarily at the state level.  Click on the logo to go to the website.  You'll find the audio and video interviews with legal reform leaders and government officials to be extremely interesting.

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Law Department Strategic Initiatives Program

We host a free, robust knowledge resource about strategies that produce the best results to help law department leaders accelerate knowledge exchange and improve in-house implementation.

Knowledge Website

Password-only access for law department staff to a robust and substantive knowledge base on all aspects of legal function management, including step-by-step guides, white papers, performance scorecards, first-draft templates, PowerPoint presentations, roundtable summaries and real-time member surveys.  Op-Ed: Donovan on Hourly Fees   Featured Program: Controlling Litigation Expenses    Special Project:  American Justice Partnership

You can access more than 40 expert presentations on the website, many of them with professionally-edited audio narrations, on topics ranging from electronic discovery and litigation budgeting to risk management, core competencies and technology utilization. People from 250 corporate law departments are enrolled as members.  Listen/See short samples from these sessions:  E-Discovery Sample  Measuring Strategic Value Sample  E-Billing Sample  Strategic Sourcing Sample

 

 

 Roundtables to be Announced

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We provide the tools, strategies and expertise that litigation teams, corporations, and government entities need to successfully complete document-intensive projects.

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