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Value Based Fee Arrangements: What Works, What Doesn’t
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SUMMARY
Value-based fee arrangements can play an integral part in efforts to manage both legal costs and maximize value. However, in order to maximize their usefulness and minimize their risks, it is imperative that both sides have clear agreement on how value creation will be measured and rewarded. Join us for this 60-minute webinar where you and your colleagues will discover:
- Keys to drafting and negotiating effective value based fee arrangements
- Which fee arrangements are best suited for particular types of legal matters
- When to use flat fee arrangements, and when escape clauses are appropriate
- Why its "more than just discounting" that matters
- How to incentivize the behavior you want from your outside counsel
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PROGRAM BENEFITS
This 60-minute program will provide you and your colleagues with the need-to-know information about surviving the death of the billable hour and how to effectively structure and draft alternative fee arrangements.
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PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
- Value Based Fee Essentials: What You Need to Know
- Types of fee arrangements and the pros and cons of each
- How to effectively use value billing & how it affects your bottom line
- How to effectively determine the appropriate fee
- Keys to using broader incentive-based fee arrangements (the "holdback" model)
- Keys to Drafting Value Based Fee Agreements
- Keys to drafting fee agreements to minimize the risks to both parties
- Critical provisions to include in engagement letters
- Negotiating flat fee arrangements with escape clauses for specific situations
- Retainer fees - whose money is it, and where should the attorney deposit it?
- Value Based Billing Best Practices and Pitfalls to Avoid
- How to effectively use success-based incentive & contingency arrangements
- How to measure gains and sharing in savings
- Practical considerations when using value billing
- LIVE Question and Answer Session - Have your alternative fee questions answered!
- Value Based Fee Essentials: What You Need to Know
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SPEAKER
Rob Lipstein is a partner in Crowell & Moring's Antitrust, International Investment, Trade and Arbitration (ITA), and Intellectual Property Groups, and is co-chair of the Antitrust Group and chair of the ITA Group Steering Committee. As chair of the Finance and Contingent Fee Review Committees, Rob also leads the firm's value-based billing initiatives, working across practice areas to craft and implement a wide range of alternative fee agreements.
- Mr. Lipstein counsels clients on all aspects of antitrust and trade regulation issues, with particular expertise on mergers and acquisitions, including pre-merger notification and pre-merger integration planning procedures; product distribution; and the interaction of antitrust and intellectual property laws. Rob regularly counsels and represents clients before the FTC and the Antitrust Division of the DOJ regarding mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, competitor collaborations, and compliance with the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act. Rob has industry specialization in telecommunications, chemicals and industrial gases, hazardous waste, consumer electronics, and musical instruments.
- Rob is the architect of distributor and dealer agreements that have become the standards in several industries, and has assisted companies to establish and enforce unilateral Minimum Advertised Price and Minimum Retail Price policies.
- Mr. Lipstein also represents clients in anti-dumping proceedings before the Department of Commerce, the International Trade Commission, and in litigation in the Court of International Trade and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
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CLE CREDITS
Continuing Legal Education CLE credit is available for an additional $65 per person in states where teleconferences are accredited
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PROGRAM MATERIALS
The speaker's PowerPoint presentation slides are included with your audio recording purchase. All materials are accessible through the Internet and can be downloaded as a PDF file.
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PRICING
$199.00 for audio conference recording (CD or DVD) and program materials.
This is an outstanding program and therefore we offer purchasers a Money Back Guarantee. We are so confident that you will find the conference valuable that we offer a 100% money back guarantee from now until 30 days after the audio recording is shipped, making this a risk-free investment. If you should have any concerns, comments, or refund requests with this conference, please contact our customer service representatives at 800-964-6033. Audio recordings will be received approximately three weeks after the live conference.
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