In today’s complex legal landscape, optimizing how organizations work with external counsel is more critical than ever. This session offers practical strategies to help legal and business professionals maximize value, control costs, ensure consistent service quality, and strengthen relationships with law firms.

​Why This Topic?

​Direct Impact: External legal spend is a significant budget item for most organizations, making effective cost management and quality assurance essential for sustainable success.

​Broadly Relevant: Whether you’re in-house counsel, a legal operations leader, a compliance executive, or a business decision-maker, you’ll gain actionable insights applicable across industries and organization sizes.

​Timely Solutions: As collaboration with law firms grows more dynamic—due to evolving business needs and technological advancements—panelists will share up-to-date tactics for building strategic, productive partnerships.

​What You’ll Learn:

• Cost Control Tactics: Proven approaches for negotiating fee structures, managing legal budgets, and ensuring value.

• Ensuring Consistent Quality: How to set clear expectations, establish effective performance metrics, and monitor service delivery.

• Streamlined Collaboration: Best practices and digital tools for efficient, secure information sharing between clients and counsel.

• Strategic Relationship Building: Insights for fostering trust, alignment, and long-term value-adding partnerships with law firms.​

​​Join us to hear from experienced professionals and industry experts, and gain practical guidance you can immediately put to use in your own legal operations. Prepare to elevate your external counsel relationships for lasting success!