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"Use Budgets to Set Yourself Apart"

This post was written by Cordell Parvin: "What do your corporate clients want other than good results?  Actually, it is easier for me to answer what they don't want. I know from my own experience and from talking to in-house lawyers that more than anything else, they do not want surprises. How do you avoid them? Put simply, developing a plan and budget at the beginning of a project and keeping the in-house counsel apprised of changes is the best thing to do to avoid surprises.

The effectiveness of this approach was confirmed in a summary of a webinar "Managing Outside Counsel Getting Off on the Right Foot -- and Staying in Step" presented by the Association of Corporate Counsel a couple of years ago..."

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Source: Law Consulting Blog, 10 August 2010. © 2010, Cordell Parvin LLC. Reproduced with permission of the author.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on August 10, 2010 (boomark / email).