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Creating Value By Selecting Strategic Practice Area Providers - Practices At GE Canada
Insights from Bruce Futterer, Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, General Electric Canada
When Bruce Futterer, Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary for GE Canada, joined the company’s law department as GC in January 2007, he implemented steps to get a ‘bird’s eye view of the legal traffic’ and services for all of GE Canada. As part of this effort, he went to all the law firms that he knew or suspected were being used to provide services for the company and engaged them in a process to select strategic partner firms with which the law department would create deeper relationships.
Read more of Bruce Futterer’s perspective on “Creating Value By Selecting Strategic Practice Area Providers.”
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ACC Value Challenge Corner
ACC Value Challenge Weekly Tip
Check out the ACC value practice tip of the week. The tip includes links to the fuller practice resource. This week’s tip features Sprint Nextel’s budget report practices, and can be accessed here. Visit www.acc.com for weekly tips.
Recent Adds to Value Practice Resources
NEW--ACC’s tool kit web pages now list recently added resources. Find information on Liberty Mutual’s ‘Quality Audit Practices, Royal Bank of Canada’s ‘Demand Management Practices,’ Southern California Edison’s use of ‘Outside Counsel Review Committees’ and more. Visit www.acc.com/valuechallenge/resources.
ACC Value Challenge Index Is Coming
Scheduled for release at ACC’s 2009 Annual Meeting, the ACC Value
Challenge Index will allow all ACC members to rate and check ratings of
the level of value law firms provide.
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Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian and Advanced Tracks at ACC’s 2009 Annual Meeting
October 18-21, 2009 at the Hynes Convention Center – Boston, MA
ACC’s 2009 Annual Meeting will host a Monday lunch on leadership featuring presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin. In addition to this featured speaker, your legal department can take advantage of popular sessions about corporate strategy, liability, malpractice risks and project management. Make sure that your legal department is not left out of this learning experience – register today!
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ACC in the News
Visit ACC in the News for recent media coverage, including the latest coverage of ACC Value Challenge:
• The Philadelphia Inquirer refers to the ACC Value Challenge as a “blueprint for reform” in “Law Review: In Dark Economic Times, Rays of Hope for Junior Associates.” Visit www.philly.com.
• The ACC Value Challenge reference in the Legal Intelligencer’s “Firms, GCs Starting to Talk the Talk” as a driving force bridging the communication gap between law firms and in-house counsel. Visit www.law.com.
If you have any questions, or wish to receive additional information about items included in this month's newsletter, please contact ACC Public Relations Manager Marthea Davis at +1.202.293.4103 ext. 363 or via e-mail at davis@acc.com.
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