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Seven ways to keep corporate counsel happy

By Esquire Deposition Solutions | June 21, 2017 |

As my company’s general counsel, I depend heavily on my outside law firms and lawyers. I value these relationships – and my lawyers do, too, since I pay their bills. I’m writing this post to help outside lawyers keep inside counsel happy.

Avoid (or at least survive) bet-the-company litigation

By Esquire Deposition Solutions | June 14, 2017 |

We recently blogged about the rapid growth of bet-the-company litigation. Short version of that post: the number of companies involved in such cases is quadrupling. If you’re corporate counsel, you want to do your best to avoid such risky, resource-devouring litigation, and survive it when it’s inevitable.

On-demand CLE: Rise to the ACC Value Challenge with technology

By Esquire Deposition Solutions | June 8, 2017 |

If you work in a law firm, you’re probably feeling the pressure: corporate legal departments have been increasingly aggressive in demanding better value from their law firms for the money they’re paying.

Why does consolidation stop with your law firms?

By Esquire Deposition Solutions | May 31, 2017 |

Corporate law departments and insurance claims organizations continue to consolidate their outside law firms in order to control spending, streamline processes and improve performance. But why do these organizations often restrict their consolidation effort to the law firms?

What’s driving bet-the-company litigation?

By Esquire Deposition Solutions | May 18, 2017 |

Although corporate litigation spending is flat, the number of companies managing “bet-the-company” litigation has quadrupled in the last two years, posing new challenges to corporate counsel, outside counsel and litigators.

Bet-the-company litigation can be any legal action that threatens the existence of the company or major line of business, whether or not the case goes to trial.

Seize the power in your next deposition

By Esquire Deposition Solutions | May 4, 2017 |

I blogged the other day on why you’d want to, or need to, video-record a deposition: a witness being out of the country, outside subpoena power, sick, or otherwise unavailable. Or maybe a key witness for your side is better on camera than in print. (On the flip side, you’d want to video-record opposing witnesses who discredit themselves on camera).