​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ ​THE BOURNE FIRM

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​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Experienced on-demand general counsel for small to mid-sized companies not yet ready for full-time general counsel. 

The following are examples of THE BOURNE FIRM's experience with respect to legal services strategy and management and how that experience could benefit you:

• ​​Provided practical legal advice as general counsel for public companies and private companies concerning a broad spectrum of legal matters to their boards of directors, chief officers, senior leadership teams and all levels of employees in every department, division and organization.
  
• Developed, managed, and maintained a high-performing team of internal and external attorneys, legal assistants and other professional and administrative staff that delivered immense volume of excellent services based on process improvement, prioritization and accountability, resulting in overall 25% cost reduction; built knowledge capital and processes for efficient legal services, optimizing infrastructure, technology and facilities; contributed to strategic planning and general corporate management as a participant in the senior leadership team and executive committee; and established and managed annual legal budgets.
  
• Managed, controlled costs of, and obtained results from, outside counsel retained to provide transactional and litigation counsel resulting in an annual reduction in external legal costs of 17% with a multitude of positive results that included, among others, dismissal of a problematic class action lawsuit.
  
• Collaborated with outside counsel with respect to thought leadership regarding solutions-focused fee arrangements, how to most efficiently and easily implement those arrangements and how to structure those arrangements to benefit all parties.
  
• Devised innovative approach to the management of legal services, including policy and procedures for the delivery of efficient legal services and procurement of outside counsel resulting in alternative fee structures, lower costs and better results.
  
• Crafted and implemented strategy and plan for procurement and consolidation of outside counsel to create additional efficiencies and further reduce costs.
  
• Managed internal legal departments with excellent personnel management skills that include, among others, day-to-day coaching, mentoring, monitoring, training and team building.
  
• Conceived, drafted and implemented procedures for legal services, including how to determine the need for legal services, requesting legal services, assessing requests for legal resources, service level requirements for delivering responses, when and how to engage outside counsel, requirements for plans and budgets, staffing of legal matters, pragmatic rather than theoretical responses, best practices for resource management and key required elements for invoices.
  
• Drafted and implemented guidelines for outside counsel, including with respect to conflicts of interest, insurance, budgets, staffing plans, litigation plans, pragmatism, responsiveness, meetings, research, forms, early dispute resolution, communication, expenses, invoices, records and audit.
  
• Designed and implemented master legal calendar for tracking key deadlines, including deadlines for intellectual property, business licenses and registrations, trademarks and leases.
  
• Delivered concise internal periodic reports in plain English regarding critical legal developments.
  
• Devised model forms of budget for transactions, litigation and other matters.