THE TLSON GROUP

The Tilson Group consults with corporate legal departments and interfaces with legal software companies, and law firms. We can provide analysis of internal operations, review efficient alignment of team and responsibilities, analysis of software solutions for matter and spend management, and implement methods for achieving maximum ROI on legal department budget.

Legal Cost Reduction

Experts with decades of legal and business process expertise ready to deliver significant savings by:

• Review and analysis of select legal department operations. Defining needs, setting objectives, and implementing best practices that improve lawyer directed workflow and management
• Examining the collaboration between corporate counsel and outside law firms to achieve maximum alignment of interests, set standards, and provide measurement to achieve transparency of work and predictable budgets
• Evaluating legal department technology, and differentiating a variety of legal software tools to consider for managing projects, document management review, task automation, reporting, and spend management systems to improve management capabilities

Why The Tilson Group?

• Martin Tilson has hands on legal experience as an equity partner, a practice group leader, and managing partner of a law firm, and has served as in-house counsel. Mr. Tilson has been in the management of three law firms and has been successful in creating a win-win environment for corporate counsel and legal providers.
• Mark Hoffman comes to The Tilson Group following a seventeen year career as a partner as The Boston Consulting Group and previously at Accenture Consulting. His expertise includes operational efficiency and effectiveness, process optimization and redesign, organization design, cost reduction and post-merger integration.
• The Tilson Group team has deep experience in:
  • Reducing cost, improving efficiency and improving effectiveness of legal departments
  • Financial and cost baselining and analysis
  • Providing analysis of legal department operations, budget methods and team functionality, including interviews with selected staff, outside counsel, inside clients and benchmarking best practices
  • Reviewing operations, workflow and delegation methods and exploring alternatives
  • Developing methods to obtain alternative, project priced legal services that achieve predictable budget outcomes
  • Converging law firms to a “preferred provider” group of outside counsel
  • Setting standards and implement performance review
  • Evaluating client technology, differentiating SaaS-based legal software tools and considering matter management, ebilling, ediscovery, and spend management solutions to better manage internal and external projects with no disruption and ease of use
  • Implementing monitoring and reporting methods to provide legal departments with the ability to make more real time decisions on outside legal projects as issues develop
  • Developing appropriate sourcing methods to select outside counsel for specific practice capabilities and in a variety of geographic locations

Mark R. Hoffman

Mr. Hoffman is a partner in The Tilson Group, and began his career in 1988 at Arthur Andersen (now Accenture) developing logistics and distribution information systems. After earning his MBA from The Harvard Business School in 1993, he joined The Boston Consulting Group’s Chicago office and subsequently helped launch BCG’s Atlanta office in 1995. Mr. Hoffman was elected Vice President and Director in 2000.

Over the course of 13 years at BCG, Mr. Hoffman worked with clients in the consumer goods and retail, industrial goods, forest products, transportation, power generation, health care, insurance, financial institutions, travel and tourism, and education industries. His functional expertise includes business strategy, growth, competitive analysis, cost reduction, sales and marketing, service, organization design, portfolio strategy/post-merger integration and global competition. He led the Industrial Goods and Operations Practice Areas for the Southeastern United States and the Atlanta office’s recruiting and career development processes.

Since 2007, Mr. Hoffman has led several early stage companies in the technology, financial institutions and chemicals industries, assisting them with strategic advisory and venture capital services.

Mr. Hoffman is an honors graduate of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a B.A. in Economics and holds an MBA from The Harvard Business School.

Martin R. Tilson

Mr. Tilson is a respected attorney, business counselor and innovative leader, with thirty plus years of experience focused on law and business. He draws upon his business advisory, legal, government relations, and business development experience to offer advisory services through The Tilson Group.

Mr. Tilson was Managing Partner and Corporate Partner, Atlanta (2007-2009) of Burr & Forman, a regional full-service law firm with over 200 attorneys in six offices throughout the Southeast. From 1995-2007, Mr. Tilson was a Corporate Partner and Chair of the multi-office Technology Practice at Kilpatrick Stockton, a 500 attorney international law firm headquartered in Atlanta. At KS, he was a Corporate Team Leader and member of the Firm Strategic Plan Committee, the Compensation Committee, and was Marketing Partner (1995-2000). From 1991-1995, Mr. Tilson was Counsel and Chair of Practice Development at Long, Aldridge and Norman where he developed and grew the firm’s corporate technology practice. Mr. Tilson previously served as in-house counsel to Sonat Corp., a $3B international energy company.

Selected business community leadership includes: Metro Atlanta Chamber Board of Directors (1997-2000, 2008, 2009); Technology Association of Georgia: Executive Board (2000-present); Emory Goizueta Business School Board of Advisors (2000-present); Georgia Tech College of Computing Board of Advisors (2000-2002); Emory Winship Cancer Center Board of Advisors (2006-present).

A graduate of the University of Alabama School of Law, Mr. Tilson obtained his JD and was Chairman of the John A. Campbell Moot Court Board. He received his BA from Sewanee: The University of the South.

Affiliates

The Tilson Group works with a select group of specialists depending on each engagement. All have solid reputations and a track record of delivering best practice methods.

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