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Most law departments spend more on their outside legal counsel than on their internal costs and staffing, yet most of us also recognize that law firms bill their clients or set their fees in a manner that is both unpredictable and often apposite to efficiency and client value. The ACC Value Challenge project spent the last year learning more about best practices in cost/expense management, and we've created this program to help law departments and firms get a handle on better processes that can help control expenses and drive greater client value in both firms and departments. We'll examine alternative staffing models, data mining techniques that can help you understand what matters are worth, metrics that measure performance relative to cost, and much more.

Mr. Carr is a frequent contributor to legal publications on various topics including compliance, law department management, and outside counsel relationships. He received a Lexis-Nexis distinguished legal services award, was included in the Texas Lawyer “In-House 50” and the Inside Counsel “Power Broker 50”, and serves on the boards of ACC and Texas General Counsel Forum (“TxGCF”). The FMC Technologies legal team has been featured in the Corporate Legal Times and Inside Counsel as one of the ten most innovative law departments, and has also been recognized by the ACC and the General Counsel Roundtable for its cutting edge legal delivery services ideas. 
 
Lisa Damon
National Labor and Employment Department Chair
Seyfarth Shaw LLP 
Lisa Damon is the national chair of Seyfarth Shaw’s 350 attorney labor and employment department in Boston and is a member of the firm’s executive, administrative, and compensation committees. As part of her practice, Ms. Damon represents management in the area of labor and employment law and also serves as the firm’s lead on its SeyfarthLean program. SeyfarthLean is a systematic way of applying empirical methods, such as Lean Six Sigma and various knowledge and project management tools to create efficiencies and lower costs for our clients. Ms. Damon has led teams of lawyers and staff throughout Seyfarth to bring these methods to our clients in a broad range of legal services such as real estate, litigation, employment, benefits, and corporate transactions. Ms. Damon’s legal practice has an emphasis on litigation of claims of sex, race and age discrimination, and harassment, in the context of multiple-plaintiff claims and single-plaintiff actions. She is also dedicated to consulting with clients on avoiding such litigation, through improved management policies and practices, positive employee relations, training, and diversity assessment. She advises companies nationwide on issues of diversity and conducts privileged and non-privileged audits and assessments of the workplace. Ms. Damon also works with management to devise and refine diversity programs, helping companies limit class action liability and achieve diversity objectives.

Ms. Damon is a Chambers ranked lawyer and a member of the College of Labor & Employment Lawyers. She lectures extensively on various aspects of diversity, employment law, and employment litigation as well as SeyfarthLean and the transformation of the legal industry. 
 
Janine Dascenzo
Associate General Counsel
General Electric Company 
 
 
Andrew Fleming
Senior Partner
Ogilvy Renault LLP 
Andrew Fleming is a senior partner of the business law group of Ogilvy Renault LLP in Toronto. He is a member of the firm’s finance committee and conflicts and ethics committee and has extensive experience in law firm management, generally. He has a broad knowledge of business law, including company, securities and banking law, and regulatory requirements relating to corporate transactions, financings and mergers & acquisitions. He is involved in all aspects of company law, including advising on general corporate governance and structure matters, corporate reorganizations, organizing and conducting shareholder and bondholder meetings, and corporate disclosure. Familiar with company law of other jurisdictions, including the USA and Europe, he has acted on project financings, and has assisted corporations in structuring their regular borrowing activities. He has also acted as arbitrator in international business matters.

Previously, he was a member of Ogilvy Renault’s executive committee and managing partner and then co-managing partner of the firm’s Toronto office.

Mr. Fleming is a past member of the continuous disclosure advisory committee of the Ontario Securities Commission and of the committee on corporate disclosure of the TSX. He is listed as one of Canada’s leading capital markets lawyers in The Legal Media Group Guide to the World’s Leading Capital Markets Lawyers. 
 
Helen Gillcrist
Vice-President and Manager of Enterprise Legal Services
Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. 
 
 
Bruce Goldberg
Managing Counsel - Law Administration
Allstate Insurance Company 
Bruce R. Goldberg is counsel and chief of staff at the department of law and regulation of the Allstate Insurance Company in Northbrook, Illinois. His responsibilities include management of the business operations of the law department and support for the office of the general counsel. Mr. Goldberg is accountable for managing the law department's preferred provider program for outside legal services, law firm relationship management, expense management, IT support, employee education including CLE, and the law library.

During his time at Allstate, Mr. Goldberg has held a variety of attorney positions including several that entailed providing compliance and counseling services to the company's property and casualty organization and marketing department, and litigation management.

Mr. Goldberg received a BA from Loyola University and is a graduate of the John Marshall Law School. 
 
Stuart M. Pape
Managing Partner
Patton Boggs LLP 
Stuart M. Pape is the managing partner of Patton Boggs LLP, an international law firm with over 600 professionals which is headquartered in Washington, DC. Mr. Pape chairs the operations and finance and practice management committees of the firm and serves on the firm's executive committee.

Mr. Pape has been a practicing food and drug attorney for several years. Before joining Patton Boggs, he served in various positions with the Food and Drug Administration. He speaks and writes frequently on FDA-related topics.

Mr. Pape is on the board of directors of the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation.

Mr. Pape received a BA from the University of Virginia and a JD from the School of Law at the University of Virginia. 

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