Chapter 2

Orientation

Enterprise Legal Management

The context for the change we foresee is not the Internet. Instead, we predict it will take place within the enterprise; that is, the intranet. That’s where the data of interest is initially created. That’s the data we want attorneys to be able to see.

Of course, the in-house attorneys, led by a General Counsel or a Chief Legal Officer, already see the bills their employers pay, and they probably know the pain and the average cost of their company’s caseload.

Such pain has become evident to the profession. The Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) certainly sees it. The ACC is the professional association of enterprise counsel, so the news has come to them from far and wide. In fact, the ...

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