Jeffrey Carr, FMC Technologies, Inc.
ACC Value Challenge at one year
By Kelly Harris
In-house counsel seem to have bought into the need for a new billing model, but just what does that model look like?
J
effrey Carr recently asked a room packed with in-house lawyers if they were using a value-billing sys- tem. The sometimes brash, often
outspoken proponent of the Association of Corporate Counsel's value-based bill-
ing initiative saw only about eight or 10 hands rise in the air. At most settings this may have
seemed normal, however, the location where this question was asked was the ACC annual general meeting in
October, one year after the organization began its seemingly all-encompassing initiative, the Value Challenge. The specific forum was called the "The Slow Motion Riot — Revolutionizing Law Department Cost Management," and Carr, vice president, general coun- sel, and secretary of FMC Technologies, Inc., in Houston, Texas was the mod- erator.
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courtesy of the Association of Corporate Counsel
