GlaxoSmithKline has made enormous strides towards revamping the way that they pay for outside legal services by implementing value-based billing wherever possible. When Dan Troy was hired as GC in 2008, he immediately began to push for an alternative to hourly billing. Collaboration with key members from GSK’s finance, procurement, and IT departments yielded a [...]
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The Advisory Committee on Civil Rules met late this March in Ann Arbor to discuss amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Included on the agenda was the report of the Discovery Subcommittee, which has been pondering the issue of sanctions and preservation since their mini-conference in September 2011. Since that time, the subcommittee [...] As of February 2012, the Department of Justice (in conjunction with the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts and the Joint Working Group on Electronic Technology in the Criminal Justice System) has officially released a set of best practices for ESI discovery in federal criminal cases. These protocols were drafted and negotiated by JETWG over [...] Our latest article for The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel is now posted at the main LLM, Inc. website. This article focuses on establishing a process that will help you to build an effective partnership between inside and outside counsel. Specifically, the article outlines: - Selecting the correct members for your team - Establishing a solid case infrastructure - Implementing your [...] Now up on the LLM, Inc. main website, a new white paper entitled, “Best Practices: Getting the Most out of Concept Search.” This paper and past papers can also be accessed in the education section of the main LLM, Inc. website. This white paper addresses: - The technology behind concept search (latent semantic indexing, LSI) - How concept [...] The idea behind using a keyword search to augment linear review is far from complex: you use a word or short phrase to identify relevant documents, and then have a reviewer go through them page by page. Theoretically, this method combines the best of both worlds; the efficiency and thoroughness of a computer and the [...] |
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