Legal Vendor Spend Management
[On-Demand] In this webcast, we will discuss specific structural, policy and process changes that will significantly reduce legal vendor spend.
May 14, 2020 at 03:43 PM
2 minute read
Cost: Complimentary
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Law firms and other legal vendors often comprise 50% or more of a corporate legal department's budget, so even incremental savings from these vendors can have a substantial impact. We will discuss specific structural, policy and process changes that will significantly reduce legal vendor spend.
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Speakers:
| Ken Callander| Managing Principal|Value Strategies LLC Ken Callander is Managing Principal of Value Strategies LLC, a consulting firm that specifically works with corporate legal departments helping them get more value and predictability from their outside counsel relationships. His specialty is helping clients transition their engagements with law firms from the hourly fee pricing model to value-based fee arrangements. For corporations this process not only provides better legal budget predictability while eliminating legal invoice review, but it also reduces total legal spend by an average of 20% – 40%. His current clients include the largest companies in ride-sharing, money transfer, social media and internet search along with multi-national conglomerates and the largest university system in the United States. As the founder of Value Strategies LLC, Ken was Head of Legal Operations and Chief of Staff to the General Counsel at Uber Technologies. Prior to Uber, Ken was the Chief Marketing Officer and Director of Business Development at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, a 500-attorney international law firm and before that was an executive at Hewlett Packard in operations and marketing where he was considered an expert in the pricing of professional services. Ken graduated with a degree in Physics/Physical Sciences from Stanford University, is a Certified Pricing Professional (CPP) and lives in San Francisco. |
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