The concept behind the InsideCounsel 10 is simple: We highlight 10 nuts-and-bolts solutions that innovative legal departments have developed to solve the common problems facing the in-house bar. Over the past six months, we have collected hundreds of interesting stories about how legal departments are confronting issues such as using technology to deliver more efficient legal services, minimizing the threat of litigation and protecting the company's products from counterfeiters. In selecting among those stories, we strove to pick solutions that most departments–large or small–could implement without huge start-up costs or radical changes in the way they do business.

For those solutions that require a small initial investment, the IC-10 provides you with one important negotiation tool to secure those funds: living proof that the idea works.

The concept behind the InsideCounsel 10 is simple: We highlight 10 nuts-and-bolts solutions that innovative legal departments have developed to solve the common problems facing the in-house bar. Over the past six months, we have collected hundreds of interesting stories about how legal departments are confronting issues such as using technology to deliver more efficient legal services, minimizing the threat of litigation and protecting the company's products from counterfeiters. In selecting among those stories, we strove to pick solutions that most departments–large or small–could implement without huge start-up costs or radical changes in the way they do business.

For those solutions that require a small initial investment, the IC-10 provides you with one important negotiation tool to secure those funds: living proof that the idea works.