News: Webinar – Innovation for the Modern Legal Department

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Friday, April 12

10:30 – 11:30 AM Central Standard Time

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General counsel are recognizing that outside counsel innovation and management practices can reduce costs and improve results. This webinar series covers the latest developments in legal process and automation innovation. Each session includes industry leaders that are driving change across the legal landscape and provides an inside look at changes being adopted by law departments.

This session will discuss the internal and external challenges being faced by corporate legal departments and the evolving processes and technologies that can address those challenges. The session will provide a comprehensive review of tools that are being deployed to improve internal departmental management, promote efficiencies and demonstrate value. Since outside counsel and vendor management is critical to controlling annual legal spend, the session will also include an overview of several tools being deployed by innovative law firms to budget estimate, control and transparency. In order to provide ethics credit, the session will also include a discussion of how one of the tools, legal project management, helps lawyers satisfy their responsibilities under the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct.

SPEAKERS

Scott Rosenberg
Managing Director and Corporate Counsel
LegalShift

David Rueff
Chief Client Solutions Group Officer
Baker Donelson

Jessica Hackett
Director of Legal Process Engineering and Online Services
Baker Donelson

Dolapo Olushola-Uwaifo
Legal Process Engineer – Advocacy & Financial Services
Baker Donelson

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Continuing Education Credit:

This program has been submitted for CLE credit in the state of Tennessee.

News: CLOC launches LPM webinar series

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LegalShift leads and participates in the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium Legal Project Management Initiative“

March 3, 2019 | published by Aileen R. Leventon

After many years of attention to LPM in law firms, CLOC determined to bring the discipline of project management to corporate legal operations professionals by launching an initiative in 2017. Significant valuable materials were developed and appear on the CLOC website at cloc.org.

The CLOC LPM framework applies to matters handled exclusively by in-house counsel, internal legal operations projects, matters handled exclusively by outside counsel, and projects where in-house counsel collaborate with law firms and other external service providers and emphasizes communication and adding value.

Under the leadership of Aileen Leventon (Edge International) and David Rueff (BakerDonelson) participants in the CLOC LPM Initiative and CLOC members have created a 5-part webinar series starting on March 8, 2019 that provides practical tools that CLOC members can use immediately.

We are honored to have had the pleasure of working with nearly 30 members of the legal ecosystem who participated in the creation of this initiative led by: Larry Bridgesmith (Legal Alignment), Patrick Ellis (General Motors), Aileen Leventon (Edge International), Pratik Patel (Elevate), Scott Rosenberg (LegalShift),and David Rueff (Baker Donelson).

Members of the LPM Initiative Team (2016 – 2018):

Danny Kotlowitz, Telstra

Mick Sheehy, Telstra

Verity White, Telstra

Lisa Goodman, Telstra

Lisa Brown, Starbucks

Marisa Flores, Starbucks

Nicole Bergknoff, Raymond James

Christopher Ende, GE

Karen Helten, Kaiser Permanente

Greg Kaple, Kaiser Permanente

Mary McKay, GAPAC

Connie Brenton, NetApp

Karen Murakami, Verizon

Rick Kathuria, Gowling WLG

Kevin Bielawski, Husch Blackwell

Janelle Belling, Perkins Coie

Brendan McInerney, Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Lynne Maher, Hunton & Williams LLP

Stuart Dodds, Baker Mckenzie

Gavin Gray, Baker Mckenzie

Andy Daws, Riverview Law

Brian Pike, Riverview Law

Liam Brown, Elevate Services

Dan Safran, LegalShift

Susan Lambreth, LawVision Group

News: Webinar – Contract Management vs. Contract Discovery – Big Difference, Bigger Opportunity

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Wednesday, January 23

10:30 – 11:30 AM Central Standard Time

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General counsel are recognizing that outside counsel innovation and management practices can reduce costs and improve results. This webinar series will cover the latest developments in legal process and automation innovation. Each session will include industry leaders that are driving change across the legal landscape and will provide an inside look at changes being adopted by law departments.

Legal departments are increasingly tasked with tracking a multitude of contracts. These agreements are typically scattered throughout the enterprise, and keeping track of them is often the most time consuming and costly part of the process. While companies need a centralized repository to manage all contracts across their lifecycle, significant and often untapped value lies within each contract. Their provisions can be utilized for far greater, tangible purposes, such as enabling higher profits, recovering lost revenue, creating new business opportunities, improving business terms, and more. There has never been an easy or cost effective way to “discover” the contents and utilize opportunities in enterprise agreements, until now. “Contract Discovery” is finally here.

Please join LegalShift, an independent affiliate of Baker Donelson, and learn about the rapidly evolving capabilities of contract leverage. Our team will highlight the differences between “Contract Management” and “Contract Discovery,” and share both the opportunities and a roadmap to help you become more than a corporate cost center.

SPEAKERS

Scott Rosenberg
Managing Director and Corporate Counsel
LegalShift

Dan Safran
President and CEO
LegalShift

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News: Webinar – A Scorecard for Outside Counsel Efficiency

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Friday, December 14, 2018

10:30 – 11:30 AM Central Standard Time

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The legal industry now places efficiency on equal footing with quality.  In response, law firms consistently throw around terms like legal project management, agile, scrum, process improvement, Lean and Six Sigma.  But is a label enough to demonstrate an ability to manage work efficiently?  Is something more needed?

This webinar will investigate new and progressive measures, regardless of labels, that can demonstrate an outside counsel’s commitment to efficiency and will provide you with an important take-a-way, a scorecard that you can immediately implement to both measure your outside counsel and help them improve.    Links to materials for download—presentation and scorecard–can be found below.

 

SPEAKERS

David Rueff
Legal Project Management Officer
Baker Donelson
Megan McGrew
LPM Manager – Business and Health Law
Baker Donelson
Scott Rosenberg
Managing Director and Corporate Counsel
LegalShift
Jim Wilbur
Principal
Altman Weil, Inc.

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News: Association of Intellectual Property Firms 2018 Annual Meeting

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September 26-28, 2018
Swissotel, Chicago

LegalShift, Inc. announced that is pleased to sponsor the Association of Intellectual Property Firms (AIPF) 2018 Annual Meeting in Chicago on September 26-28.  LegalShift will present a Boutique Practice Session entitled, “Legal Project Management Essentials: Learn How to Align Client Expectations with Practice Efficiencies and Profitability.”   The session is an in-depth analysis of Legal Project Management (LPM) concepts an the practical application of these concepts.   Participants in this interactive workshop will form into working groups and engage in guided, hands-on, collaborative exercises to apply LPM “best practices” in the operation of an IP boutique.   Each participant will depart with a working knowledge of LPM discipline and with the ability to immediately apply these concepts and techniques.    For more on the event, visit https://aipf.com/event-2689725