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How The Williams Companies Uses Matter Management to Work More Efficiently

In 2001, Williams found itself in the midst of a painful downturn that ultimately changed the composition of the company's assets and its direction. As such, our legal department was given a corporate mandate to increase our internal services while dramatically reducing our budget, headcount and spending on outside legal services.

15 minute read November 28, 2011 at 03:17 PM
By
Danette Gallatin
How The Williams Companies Uses Matter Management to Work More Efficiently

As one of the country's largest integrated natural gas companies, The Williams Companies Inc. has operations concentrated in the Rocky Mountains, Gulf Coast, Pacific Northwest, Eastern Seaboard, the Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvania and in Alberta, Canada.

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