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n late 2014, TElUS Corporation was looking to implement more cost controls
across its business units and identify effciencies it could bring to bear in its
ioperations, including legal services. It fell on the shoulders of Michel Belec,
Senior Vice President, legal Services; and alan Dabb, Vice President , litigation,
to fgure out what that meant for the corporate law department. But before
they could begin, they had a problem common to many large organizations
in Canada: legal spending was fragmented and distributed across the
organization. Figuring out the total legal spend would not be an easy operation.
“not all of the external legal spend was concentrated in the corporate law
department,” Dabb explains. For example, the labour, regulatory and tax
teams had their own external legal spend, which was outside the corporate law
department. “Our objective was to look at the overall external counsel spend
to try to come up with some effciencies to make sure that we were spending
our dollars in the right places and getting maximum bang for our buck.”
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