Outside Counsel Guidelines
Discover how LegalBillReview.com develops, maintains, and enforces tailored Outside Counsel Guidelines to ensure compliance, manage legal spend, and foster strong law firm relationships.
What Are Outside Counsel Guidelines and Why Do You Need Them?
Outside Counsel Guidelines (OCGs) are formalized policies that outline the expectations, billing practices, and operational procedures law firms must follow when providing legal services to your organization. These guidelines serve as a framework to ensure transparency, consistency, and compliance in your legal engagements.
Without clear OCGs, organizations risk overbilling, inefficiencies, and inconsistent practices across their outside counsel. OCGs are essential for managing legal spend effectively, maintaining accountability, and fostering collaborative relationships with your law firms. They provide clarity on billing rules, including rates, staffing, expense reimbursement, and other critical aspects, ensuring that your legal services align with your business goals.
LegalBillReview.com Outside Counsel Guidelines
At LegalBillReview.com, we specialize in helping organizations develop, maintain, and enforce tailored Outside Counsel Guidelines that work.
Develop
Many in-house teams operate without OCGs in place. As part of the engagement, we develop these guidelines, tailored to your unique organization and communicate this document to your law firms.
Maintain
As organizations evolve and the law firms that support them, so should the guidelines. Legalbillreview.com handles updates the OCGs on an annual basis, then communicate any updates to your law firms for transparency.
Enforce
Our analysts review against your guidelines ensuring transparency with your law firms along the way with accuracy as the ultimate goal.