Elevate, a law company providing consulting, technology and managed services for global law departments and law firms, today announced the hire of Christopher Sweet as Director of Consulting. A legal operations professional previously at JPMorgan Chase, Sweet also brings law firm experience having instituted legal project management at Reed Smith…
Elevate’s Vince Vetri and Starbucks’ Lisa Kremer-Brown for ACC Docket: You can’t manage what you can’t measure. So, how do we demonstrate the value that our legal department returns to the company through improved outside counsel management? This common question is posed frequently by legal operations professionals and there are often multiple answers. When Starbucks and Elevate considered how the legal operations team could effectively communicate the value of enhanced outside counsel management, we started by asking ourselves, “what data are available and how might we best leverage those data as the basis for decision making?”
Elevate, a law company providing consulting and technology services for global law departments and law firms, has been ranked in ‘Band 1’ by Chambers & Partners in the publication’s category for global legal services providers. This is the fourth year the law company has been ranked by Chambers and the first year it has been positioned in ‘Band 1,’ the highest ranking possible based on Chambers’ in-depth, objective research with lawyers and customers.