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Changing Partners, Changing Faces: Diversity and the DuPont Legal Model July 6, 1997

This article presents the case for greater racial and gender diversity within the legal profession, and showcases some of the innovative and award-winning programs that DuPont Legal has put in place, including DuPont’s Minority Job Fair and the TEMPO program, “To Encourage Minority Purchasing Opportunities.”
Reengineering and Compensation Trends and Their Impact on Partnering July 1, 1997

For corporate counsel involved in partnering initiatives, this analysis of a Price Waterhouse Law Department Spending Survey and an Altman Weil Pensa/ACCA Compensation Benchmarking Survey provides an overview of the important trends and issues that affect them — insourcing, temporary staffing and others.
Electronic Discovery: Litigation’s Newest Challenge to Corporate Records January 6, 1997

This article presents the risks and challenges facing legal professionals who manage electronic documents for litigation. Each phase of the process is discussed in detail — the proactive phase when electronic documents are created, the discovery phase when they are produced, and the archive phase when they are merged with other documents for the litigation team’s use. The article also discusses reckless e-mail, forensic computing and other issues.
Creating a New Client Relationship – The ‘Convergence’ of DuPont and FTI June 6, 1996

FTI is a DuPont Service provider, and this article, written by an FTI executive, presents an “insider’s” view of their business relationship and discusses the benefits:
• Four-fold increase in DuPont business;
• Reduced business costs;
• Reduced sales costs;
• Increased marketplace exposure;
• The “halo” effect of being aligned with DuPont;
• A competitive advantage through the use of new technology;
• Similar alliances with other Fortune 500 firms.

The DuPont Convergence Program: How One Outside Service Provider Benefits. June 1, 1996

DuPont and its Primary Law Firms and Service Providers are all committed to each other’s financial success, and this article outlines the ways in which the DuPont Legal Model benefits Price Waterhouse, a firm that provides DuPont with litigation support services.