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CCCA_V4No1_Alt Fees-FIN.qxd:CCCA_V1No1_DriversSeat-FIN.qxd 2/3/10 1:27 PM Page 27 by Michael Rappaport Feature An alternative fee arrangement built to last: the Gowlings &Cisco experience Cisco, as The ABA Journal noted in September 2005, was magazine in November 2009 for its pioneering work with AFAs among the first to develop Internet-based solutions to stream- as many other businesses are only now jumping on-board the line patent applications, manage non-disclosure agreements and AFA bandwagon. facilitate the production of electronic discovery evidence in lit- four and a half years, the Toronto-based national business law Lost in all this has been a Canadian success story. For the past ALENA GEDEONOVA by more than 20 per cent during the past five years through firm Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP has handled all of Cisco igation. It slashed legal fees as a percentage of company revenue Systems’ labour- and employment-law-related legal issues in implementation of AFAs, The National Law Journal reported. In fact, Cisco was heralded as “prescient” by Corporate Counsel Canada for a monthly flat fee.CCCA Magazine talked to the key PRINTEMPS 2010 CCCA Canadian Corporate Counsel Association 27