Syllabus for The LawCost Management Workshop/Seminars 
On Managing Outside Legal Expenses
(4 hours)

Lowering legal costs: It’s all about managing, not auditing!  

The Goals of Law Cost Management: It’s not only about lowering your legal spend.

The Tools You Need, Have and Are Not Using  to Manage your Legal Costs

General Principals of Managing Outside Legal Expenses

The Top 10 Reasons Why Your Legal Bills are Higher Than They Should Be.

Nuts and Bolts: What to look for in your legal bills.

What to Look for in the Time Charges Portion of Legal Bills

What to Look for in the Disbursement Charges Portion of Legal Bills

Workshop:  Reviewing some bills to you from your law firms.

In the course of discussing these topics we will also comment on:

Techniques For Reviewing Your Legal Bills Efficiently;

Techniques For Discussing Legal Costs With Your Firms Effectively And Without Harming The Lawyer/Client Relationship; and

Deploying Your In-House Resources Most Effectively To Manage Outside Legal Costs.

Syllabus for the
Optional LawCost Management Supplemental Seminar
On Managing Outside Legal Expenses  
(2.5 hours)

The LawCost Management Supplemental Seminar goes into (i) more depth with respect to some of the topics noted in the main Seminar, as well as (ii) several new topics

More Techniques for Reviewing Your Legal Bills Efficiently.

More Techniques for Discussing Legal Costs with Your Firms Effectively and Without Harming the Lawyer/Client Relationship.

Deploying Your In-House Resources Most Effectively to Manage Outside Legal Costs.  

Task Based Billing and Task Based Coding Systems: limited, mis-used and under-used tools.  

E-billing Systems: what they are and how to use them to manage legal costs.  

Creating, Maintaining and Using Best Practices, Research and Pleadings Databases.  

Alternative Billing Arrangements: their uses and limitations.

Law Firm technology and Law Cost Management.  

Client Practices That Increase Legal Costs.  

The Top 10 Reasons Why Legal Costs Cannot Be Managed: what do you think of them now?  

Managing Legal Costs: a reprise

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