Let's Get Organized - Using Six Sigma & Other Approaches to Streamline Law Department Procedures

Sep 11, 2026

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This document presents a conference panel session on streamlining law department procedures using Six Sigma and complementary improvement approaches. It highlights practical results such as faster IT procurement contract negotiations and explains how methods like DMAIC, Lean, PDCA, and constraint management can be applied across legal functions. It also covers quality frameworks and standards including Baldrige and ISO certification, change leadership, stakeholder buy-in, and knowledge sharing through lessons learned.

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Panel Overview

Six Sigma in Action: IT Procurement Contracts

Turn your Mess Into Success: Constraint Management, Lean, and Six Sigma

Other Approaches: PDCA, Baldrige, ISO, OLSI

Change Leadership and Key Stakeholder Support

Lessons Learned Discussion

105-Lets Get Organized-Using Six Sigma & Other Programs to Streamline Law Department Procedures Jason Anderman Counsel Becton, Dickinson and Company Heather Boone General Counsel Los Alamos National Bank Nathan Nelson General Counsel Albion Advanced Nutrition This material is protected by copyright. Copyright © 2007 various authors and the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) . Materials may not be reproduced without the consent of ACC. Reproduction permission requests should be directed to the Legal Resources Department at ACC: 202/293-4103, ext. 342; [legalresources@acc.com](legalresources@acc.com) ACC's 2007 ANNUAL MEETING Enjoying the Ride on the Track to Success Faculty Biographies Jason Anderman Jason Mark Anderman serves as counsel at Becton, Dickinson and Company, a Fortune 500 medical technology company with headquarters in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey. Previously, Mr. Anderman practiced at the law firms of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker and Goodwin Procter. Mr. Anderman’s current practice includes: providing general advice to medical technology business units, managing procurement agreements for a diverse array of goods and services, negotiating life sciences and diagnostic instrument sales transactions, providing health privacy law advice, as well as facilitating litigation and dispute management. Mr. Anderman is certified as a Green Belt in the Six Sigma continuous improvement management method, and focuses on ongoing projects using Six Sigma tools to drive efficiency in legal services. Mr. Anderman also leads several knowledge management initiatives. Mr. Anderman also currently co-chairs the Law Department Purchasing Consortium’s Procurement Group. Mr. Anderman graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Washington University in St. Louis. He received J.D. and M.A. from Duke University School of Law and Graduate School. Heather Boone Heather Travis Boone is general counsel for Trinity Capital Corporation, a financial holding company, headquartered in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Ms. Boone also serves as general counsel for its subsidiaries, Los Alamos National Bank, Title Guaranty & Insurance Company and TCC Appraisal Services Corporation. Los Alamos National Bank received the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award in 2000 and remains the only financial institution and only New Mexico company to have received this award. Ms. Boone is very active in her company's Baldrige, Lean and Six Sigma efforts. Ms. Boone is also active in Quality New Mexico, a Baldrige-based state quality program. Ms. Boone is currently the vice-chair for ACC's corporate and securities committee and is the incoming chair of the committee. Ms. Boone also participates in the ACC law department management committee's Six Sigma initiatives. Ms. Boone's practice focuses on corporate law, securities, corporate governance, regulatory reporting, litigation and general guidance for Trinity and its subsidiaries. Ms. Boone previously practiced at Strasburger & Price, LLC in Houston, Texas. Ms. Boone received her B.A. from Trinity University and J.D. from Washington & Lee University School of Law. Nathan Nelson Nathan Nelson is general counsel for Albion Laboratories, Inc. a privately held Utah manufacturer of mineral amino acid chelates for pharmaceutical, dietary supplement, and food additive applications as well as for animal and plant nutrition markets. He is very involved in the biotech company’s initiative to take six sigma, LEAN, and continuous improvement concepts from the manufacturing floor to office workflow and the production of legal work. Mr. Nelson previously worked in the legal departments of Groupe Laperrière & Verreault Inc. (an international equipment manufacturer headquartered in Montreal) and Cubic Corporation (a defense and transportation company based out of San Diego) . Mr. Nelson currently serves as treasurer of the Mountain West Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel. He is a membe

FAQs

Which Six Sigma and related methods are used to streamline law department procedures?

The panel overview includes Six Sigma in action, Lean, DMAIC revisited, and constraint management principles, alongside Theory of Constraints as part of the approach.

What practical outcome is highlighted for IT procurement contracts?

The session notes that IT procurement contract negotiations are 65% faster when applying the discussed methods.

What other improvement frameworks complement Six Sigma in the session?

The document lists PDCA, Baldrige and state quality programs, ISO certification, and the Open Legal Standards Initiative (OLSI).

How does the panel address change leadership within the legal department?

It covers change leadership and key stakeholder support, including getting buy-in and making the improvements stick.

Sep 11, 2026

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