Creating new legal service delivery systems for a complex world

Jeffrey Carr, Vice President and General Counsel, FMC Technologies

The FMC Technologies legal team is relentless in trying to find new and better ways to deliver legal services to our customers ie the FMC Technologies business units. Key tenets of the team's approach are to focus on three core functions: acting as the trusted strategic advisor to the business, managing risks and protecting assets while maintaining the company's ethical compass, and delivering cost-effective legal services appropriate to the business. This is done by looking at strategic alignment of services with objectives, value rather than just cost savings, proactive practices, and continuous improvement. These value-adding initiatives implemented by the legal team have substantially changed the way the legal team works and have delivered good results, including winning more cases, reducing case cycle time, reducing total dispute resolution costs, reducing IP cost, driving more consistency, and streamlining processed.

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USA Management IT June 2007 Vol. 1, No. 1, Autumn 2007

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FMC Technologies is a $3.8B global supplier of highly engineered and high performance products, services and solutions for the energy, airport and food processing industries. We have 11,000 employees in 33 manufacturing facilities in 19 countries. Www.fmctechnologies.com

USA Management IT June 2007 Vol. 1, No. 1, Autumn 2007