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important as more legal work is brought in-house. Furthermore, an efficient legaldepartment will contribute more to the bottom line than will an inefficient one.An in-depth discussion of how Lean Six Sigma methodology is used to analyze andimprove the efficiencies of all processes in a legal department is beyond the scope ofthis article, but the panelists will describe briefly how selected processes andprocedures in a legal department can be broken down and analyzed to eliminate wasteand inefficiencies. The result of this project is to deliver a more efficient and morefocused legal department. Anthony Deglomine, Deputy General Counsel for HarrisCorporation, will lead the discussion by the panelists about the importance of improvedefficiency and how Harris Corporation’s legal department is achieving it.B. Using Technology and Communications Processes toExpand the Legal DepartmentOne issue commonly faced by in-house counsel when retaining outside counsel for aparticular case in litigation or a transaction is the time it takes to educate outsidecounsel sufficiently to enable him or her to understand the company’s business, and thespecific issues, goals and possible consequences involved in a particular matter. Evenif the outside counsel has represented the company previously, he or she will typicallystill not have the broad-based understanding of the company that full-time insidecounsel already has. Outside counsel simply does not have ready access to the sameinformation as in-house counsel. To have that level of knowledge and understandingoutside counsel needs to be brought in-house.4