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Engaging and Managing Outside Counsel Toolkit
Practical Law Toolkit w-001-9041 (Approx. 7 pages)
Engaging and Managing Outside Counsel Toolkit
by Practical Law
| Maintained • USA (National/Federal) |
A collection of Practical Law resources to assist in-house counsel when engaging and managing outside counsel. Specifically, this Toolkit offers a variety of resources to enable in-house counsel to build a more effective relationship with outside counsel.
Organizations retain outside counsel for many different purposes, often in response to a significant event, such as anticipated or ongoing litigation, an investigation, a major business transaction, or another legal concern (for example, general advice about employment matters).
This Toolkit includes various maintained resources to assist in-house counsel in addressing issues that commonly arise when retaining outside counsel and managing the attorney-client relationship, including:
- Conflicts of interest.
- Engagement letters.
- RFPs.
- Budgets.
- Outside counsel guidelines.
- Managing litigation.
- Evaluating outside counsel.