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.