Building strong relationships between your company’s in-house corporate counsel and outside counsel is crucial to developing trust, effective representation, and retention to meet your corporate needs.

The keys to doing so are:

• Understanding what’s important to the business client in the relationship

• Setting specific goals for each project

• Developing workable budgets

• Fashioning clear fee arrangements

• Creating a quality work product that relates to goals

• Achieving desired outcomes

These things take effective communication, continual effort and focus.