Southwest Inhouse Counsel Portal
Striving for Better Value-Cost Alignment
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Please Note: We have created this subsite for your evaluation of our offer to provide this facility at no cost to your Chapter for the purpose of promoting ACC Value Challenge related communications and collaborative activities among your Chapter members and local outside counsel. Your Chapter's logo is displayed in the right-hand column for demonstrative purposes only. If you decide not to use this facility, we will immediately remove this subsite from the In-house Counsel InfoNet.
How To Use This Portal: How your Chapter uses this dedicated portal is your decision. The InfoNet website is constructed on a Microsoft SharePoint Services platform and, accordingly, it is designed to promote and facilitate communications and collaboration among multiple parties. To these ends, you can take advantage of various alerts, announcement boards, calendars, discussion forums, document libraries, lists, project management tools, etc., to accomplish your objectives.
Here are some suggestions as to how you might use this facility:
Promote events in support of the ACC Value Challenge
-Announce meetings to local outside counsel
-Provide pre-meeting orientation materials
-Post faculty PowerPoint presentations
-Offer participant handouts to members unable to attend live meetings
Encourage ongoing dialogue among Chapter members and local outside counsel about value-based client/law firm relationships
Draw attention of Chapter members and their preferred law firms to important ACC Value Challenge issues and developments
Put ACC Value Challenge resources at the fingertips of local outside counsel
Facilitate collaborative efforts among Chapter members and local firms to develop specific value-cost alignment solutions
Display case studies highlighting procedures implemented by Chapter members and local law firms that improve efficiency, reduce costs and deliver higher value for corporate clients
Recognize specific ACC Value Challenge accomplishments by Chapter members and local law firms
Offer Chapter sponsors additional visibility to Chapter members