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

 

 

News: Master’s Conference 2018

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May 22,2018
Microsoft – Chicago Office

LegalShift, Inc. announced that is pleased to have sponsored the Master’s Conference in Chicago on May 22, 2018.  The event represented a blend of corporate legal counsel and Law Firm attorneys in a mutual learning atmosphere to gather the latest information on e-discovery, data protection, records management and more.

LegalShift’s President and CEO, Dan Safran, who co-moderated this event, said, “LegalShift was honored to participate in the 2018 Master’s Conference in Chicago this week.  The Master’s Conference is an extraordinary event focused on keeping lawyers up-to-date with the changes going on in the marketplace.  Any time that LegalShift can participate and sponsor educational focused platforms to drive legal market change, we are excited.  This disruptive, inevitable change can only happen with repeated knowledge and ongoing education – and we are pleased to be a part of it.”

News: Corporate Legal Operations Consortium 2018

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April 22-25
Bellagio, Las Vegas

LegalShift, Inc. announced that is pleased to have supported the Corporate Legal Operations Institute in Las Vegas on April 22-25, 2018, as a sponsor.  The consulting services company provides a broad array of management consulting and advisory services for corporate legal departments and law firms.  LegalShift exhibited at this show and is available to share its experience and innovative approaches on improvements to operational efficiency within law departments – spanning both practice and administrative operations.

LegalShift states, “The practice of law is continuously changing, with increased pressure to do more with less. LegalShift drives lawyers to be better business managers and to demonstrate their value.”  This premier, legal market focused consulting firm helps SHIFT client “process and technology to better align with client needs and achieve operational excellence”.

The Corporate Legal Operations Institute enables legal operations and members of the legal ecosystem to join together to collaborate, share and transform the future of legal services delivery. Once again, this event featured content rich sessions, a large exhibit hall and numerous networking opportunities.

“We are delighted to continue our CLOC support through providing probono time, leveraging our intellectual property as well as financial support.  Working with legal industry experts and the exploding numbers of CLOC members, we continue to help the corporate legal marketplace improve efficiency and lower costs process, people and technology change” said Dan Safran, LegalShift’s President and CEO.  “We continue to drive quantitative, real dollar change to benefit both law departments and law firms – and we are greatly appreciative of the opportunity to help realign this co-dependent ecosystem.”

News: Aurora North and LegalShift Announce Co-delivery Centered on Intellectual Property Practice Solutions

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Aurora North and LegalShift Announce Co-delivery Centered on Intellectual Property Practice Solutions

 

Burlington, VT and Chicago, IL – November 2, 2017 – Aurora North, an experienced Intellectual Property (IP) software provider and Intapp implementation services company, and LegalShift, LLC., a leading industry management consulting and advisory firm, today formally announced their existing partnership to co-deliver Intellectual Property (IP) solutions to the legal market. The combined team exploits process, workflow and automation-based efficiencies for the benefit of law firm and law department IP practices.

The leading providers of IP practice and business operations improvement solutions have partnered to fill a gap in a market that has been historically underserved. Aurora North and LegalShift offer client-friendly, business-centric and experienced consulting services to benefit the IP practice along with professionalized, latest generation technology tools built and validated by IP practitioners.

“Our Aurora North team delivers extraordinary automation and technology solutions leveraging a long IP practice history, culminating in our PracticeLink software,” says Chris Kave, president of Aurora North. “We excel in execution with some 1,400 delivered software projects over the past eight years. LegalShift works with us to drive IP practice strategy, process alignment, organization change and program execution. The partnership has enabled us to deliver complicated projects, while increasing predictability and client satisfaction,” continues Kave.

“This combination represents a first in the IP practice marketplace. The Aurora North team has used their deep IP experience to develop PracticeLink, which, as confirmed by our clients, enables true efficiency through full automation of IP work practices,” says Dan Safran, president and CEO of LegalShift. “Our teams have successfully collaborated at multiple clients who have and are reaping the benefits of working with our teams. We love achieving or exceeding client expectations and now can benefit our mutual clients strategically, tactically and technically.”

A recent Am Law 200 global IP law firm client leveraged the co-delivery of LegalShift and Aurora North’s technology and services to significantly increase operational efficiencies across the firm. Working as a single, integrated team, the consultants provided deep IP expertise, extensive operational improvement best practice, senior level project management resourcing and application software design, tools and deployment skills to create a winning outcome. The delivered solution spans both PracticeLink and Intapp Open software, processes and people change. As a result, the demonstrated return on investment totals in the millions of dollars.

 

About LegalShift, LLC.

LegalShift, LLC. is a legal industry consulting/advisory firm offering strategic guidance and tactical know-how to corporate law departments and law firms in areas of business operations, financial spend, legal project management, process improvement, legal service delivery, organization change and technology deployment.

LegalShift’s consultants and advisors – consisting of business leaders, former practicing lawyers and experienced consultants – have worked with hundreds of law departments and law firms to help them strengthen processes, optimize resources and leverage technology to better manage the delivery and consumption of legal services.

LegalShift spurs collaboration between law department and law firm clients to improve workflow efficiencies, lower legal spend and increase profitability. For more information, please contact LegalShift by phone at 844 SHIFT US (844-744-3887) or email at info@legalshift.com, or visit www.legalshift.com.

 

About Aurora North

Aurora North provides industry expertise and thought leadership to enhance legal operations, increase efficiency and reduce risk. Its PracticeLink product suite supports the Intellectual Property teams that protect the best ideas on earth. Aurora also has a rich history of implementing tailored legal solutions and is the premier implementation partner for Intapp products. To learn more, visit www.auroranorth.com.