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Showing the Value of the Legal Department: More Than Just a Cost Center Sterling L Miller ISBN 9781639050451

How do you demonstrate the value of the legal department and justify its investment to the business? In Showing Value: Lessons for In-House Counsel, Sterling Miller shares insights drawn from over 30 years of legal experience, most of it spent in-house across four different organizations. Even if your business isn’t asking for proof of your department’s value today, it will soon. This book equips you with the tools and strategies to meet that challenge confidently and effectively.

This practical guide offers a step-by-step blueprint for demonstrating value, covering key topics such as:

• Maximizing value creation while minimizing value destruction

• Leveraging technology to drive efficiency and impact

• Partnering strategically with the business

• Positioning legal as a profit center

• Empowering the business to help themselves

• Becoming a strategic, forward-thinking in-house lawyer

• Creating an annual value-creation to-do list

• Marketing the legal department internally

• Turning demonstrated value into additional resources

The book also includes a comprehensive KPI (key performance indicator) library, a sample client satisfaction survey, a low-value contract checklist, practical tips for streamlining contract execution, and much more.

Don’t wait to be asked about the value your department provides—take the initiative. Showing Value will help you highlight the critical contributions of your legal team and showcase your successes to the business.

Showing the Value of the Legal Department: More Than Just a Cost Center Sterling L Miller ISBN 9781639050451, 978-1639050451 & 9781639050468

Author
Sterling L Miller