California (CA) In House Counsel CLE Course Catalog

While outside legal spend remains a top concern for most GCs, one thing remains clear the relationship between in-house and outside Outside counsel - how to actually listen to your inside counsel and help you figure out what clients want and how to deliver (and visa versa for in house - both sides) Getting the most out of that relationship Ruthlessly managing outside counsel budgets - how to propose alt fee arrangements - setting expectations properly, how to review bills - open conversations developing relationships with outside counsel without feeling like everything will be a bill - a chilling effect Meaningful ways of developing relationships Balance How to help them create the comfort level, relationships aren't billed for Controlling costs How to teach outside counsel how to give advice to in house - saves money, trust them, benefits - gap of outside counsel to be trained to do that so there's less back and forth Interactions with outside counsel/managing relationships