Canadian Corporate Counsel Association

Preferred Providers

The CCCA has established strategic relationships with some of Canada's finest legal and business service providers in order to benefit our members. We encourage our members to explore the valuable expertise, products and services of our Preferred Providers, whose investments in the CCCA and excellent service to our members have distinguished them from their competitors. Preferred Providers are recognized exclusively in the categories they represent.

Legal Information Technology

The CCCA is pleased to enjoy an ongoing Preferred Provider arrangement with Legal Suite for legal information technology.

LS Canada Inc Software is designed by and for corporate counsel. Since its creation in 2000, Legal Suite has become the benchmark of legal corporate solutions with more than 400 renowned clients in the public and private sectors, 650 projects and 18,500 users worldwide.  Legal Suite owes its success to the legal expertise behind all of its modules as well as the adaptability of its offer. This flexibility allows us to constantly adapt our solutions to reflect the needs of corporate counsel. Our solutions are entirely dedicated to each area of corporate law including:

• legal governance (e.g., corporate management, delegation of powers);
• contract management;
• legal risk management (e.g., in-house consulting, litigation, insurance);
• asset protection (e.g., IP, real estate); and
• sustainable development management.

Improving your legal performance, Legal Suite's solutions respond to the constraints of the legal profession, enhancing:

• productivity (e.g., dynamic databases, document generation);
• proactivity (e.g., alerts and follow-up systems);
• traceability (e.g., file history, workflow);
• information control (e.g., multi-criteria search systems);
• information sharing (e.g., requests and automated reports);
• risk management (e.g., alarms); and
• analyses (e.g., reports and statistics of activities, stakes and services)

To learn more about how Legal Suite can help your law department with its information technology issues, please contact us at:

(514) 937-3533
contact@legal-suite.com
 

Legal Department Management

The CCCA is pleased to enjoy an ongoing Preferred Provider arrangement with Catalyst Consulting for management consulting to legal departments.

Catalyst Consulting specializes in working with corporate and government legal departments and associations serving the legal services sector.

Since 1994, they have completed more than 500 consulting engagements with 300 legal departments and law firms in Canada, Europe, the US and Australia.

They provide analysis and advice on:

• positioning and strategy
  
  
  • alignment with corporate and business unit plans
  • 3-year demand forecasts for legal services
  • 12 roles for legal departments
  • annual business plans for the legal department
  • non-legal functions of the legal department
• organization and resources of the law department
  
  
  • legal specialties
  • legal team and business unit alignment
  • cross-border and multi-site legal departments
  • functional - operational reporting of legal teams
  • resources for the legal department
• workflow and workload
  
  
  • work intake and allocation protocols
  • effective workload management
  • service standards and service agreements
  • management of workflow to and from law firms
• performance management
  
  
  • measurable goals for legal departments
  • stretch goals for business plans
  • balanced scorecards
  • key performance indicators
• managing total legal spend and relationships with external counsel
  
  
  • budgeting internal & external costs
  • requests for proposals for legal services from external counsel
  • convergence and partnering with law firms
  • alternative pricing for external counsel
  • litigation management
  • workflow management systems
• benchmarking and surveys
  
  
  • surveying satisfaction with the legal department
  • benchmarking structures, compensation and select issues

To learn more about how Catalyst Consulting can support your law department with its management requirements, please contact Richard Stock at:

416-367-4447
rstock@catalystlegal.com

Alternative Legal Services Models for Corporate Counsel

The CCCA is pleased to welcome Cognition LLP as our Preferred Provider for alternative legal services models and fee structures focused directly on corporate counsel.

Cognition LLP is an innovative law firm based in Toronto that has grown to over thirty lawyers since its founding in 2005. Cognition provides General Counsel with an ideal alternative to retaining a traditional law firm or hiring more in-house employees. Cognition understands and addresses the unique challenges faced by legal departments in having to meet rigorous business demands while being confined by a limited budget and headcount. The Cognition team brings the best of breed credentials: partner level experience from all of its lawyers, including Big Law training at Canada’s largest firms, coupled with invaluable in-house experience from the country’s most successful companies and leading legal departments. This combination ensures that legal advice is delivered by lawyers who can operate autonomously and who truly understand the ultimate business objectives – just like the best corporate counsel do. Further, by stripping away the inefficient overhead of a traditional law firm, Cognition has created fee structures that equate to one half to one third of the cost of the big firm.

Cognition addresses the General Counsel’s needs by:

• Providing an ongoing fractional in-house resource when headcount is limited;
• Allowing occasional surges in workload to be outsourced to a knowledgeable and familiar in-house resource;
• Supplementing or supplanting more costly outside counsel for more specialized work;
• Offering supplementary assistance during or as part of major transactions; and
• Effecting and managing specific legal projects.

Lawyer Recruitment Services

Established in 1988, The Counsel Network® is Canada's oldest and most established legal recruitment firm. Throughout our history, we have provided highly professional and comprehensive legal recruitment and related services for companies across Canada and internationally. The Counsel Network has permanent offices in Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver, and affiliates worldwide.

The Counsel Network® is also the only Canadian member of the National Association of Legal Search Consultants (NALSC), North America’s largest industry organization for legal search firms.

Discovering, promoting and placing top talent has made The Counsel Network® the national leader in Canadian legal search. The Counsel Network® has been assisting companies and in-house counsel across Canada for over twenty years with our unique model of lawyer recruitment and strategic advising to General Counsel, CEOs, Boards of Directors, and senior HR officials in their recruitment of legal talent in the Canadian marketplace.

Our placements succeed because our experienced recruiters have in-depth knowledge of their local legal communities. We are also plugged into the national and international marketplace, thanks to the scope and richness of The Counsel Network®’s worldwide network of contacts.

We have developed a unique business model assisting in-house counsel effectively achieve their career goals. Our extensive experience, specialized focus, insider knowledge and a national team of seasoned, highly skilled headhunters make us a powerful combination across the Canadian market.

But most of all, we are proud of our reputation as dedicated and trusted advisors. By far, our success lies in the lasting relationships we have developed and continue to maintain over the course of time. Clients and candidates alike tend to work with us on an ongoing basis, relying on our expertise, market insight and determination to assist them in reaching their career goals.