ATLANTA, April 2, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Ways to better manage outside counsel is the topic for the April meeting of the Georgia Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel, or ACC. A team from Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP, will present a program titled "Legal Project Management: A Better Way to Manage Legal Projects and Outside Counsel Costs." The program has been approved for Professionalism and general CLE credit.
Surveys by well-known legal consulting groups show corporate counsel are deeply dissatisfied with their outside law firms:
* BTI Consulting Group Inc. found that only 25 percent of respondents considered their primary law firm best at client service, and only 32 percent would recommend the firms to others.
* Another BTI survey found that 54 percent of corporate law departments replaced their primary outside law firms in the previous 18 months. Overall client satisfaction was below 31 percent.
* Altman Weil Inc. found that 30 percent of companies surveyed had recently fired, or planned to fire, one of their outside law firms.
Legal Project Management is a patent pending system designed to alleviate frustration with outside counsel by improving the delivery, transparency and efficiency of legal services. Morris, Manning & Martin partners Grant Collingsworth, Don Loft, and John Harris, together with Legal Project Management Director Linda Klausing, will share their experiences in developing the firm's system. They will also shed light on how it makes client projects run on time and on budget.
The event will be held Tuesday, April 10 at Maggiano's Buckhead from 11:45 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Attendance is limited to ACC members and their invited guests, as well as prospective ACC members.
For more information on the Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP, Legal Project Management System, contact Linda Klausing at lklausing@mmmlaw.com or (404) 504-5464.
Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP (www.mmmlaw.com) enjoys national prominence for its corporate finance, securities, litigation, technology, real estate and real estate capital markets, environmental, insurance and healthcare practices. The firm has offices in Atlanta, Washington, D.C., Charlotte, Raleigh-Durham and Princeton.