Law Department PG: Law Department Operations and Technology Trends - Webinars

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Resources
Law Department Operations and Technology Trends Power Point Presentation

Date(s) 06/15/2011

Time(s)
12:00 p.m. - 01:00 p.m.

Location
Your Office

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12:00 pm Eastern
11:00 am Central
10:00 am Mountain
9:00 am Pacific

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Topic: Law Department Operations and Technology Trends

In the past few years, the legal industry has changed dramatically as the result of both economic pressures and technological advances. Join us as we look at the drivers and resulting changes in law department operations and technology, and learn about the benefits and risks of the solutions discussed. Technology trends to be discussed include:

- Reducing the physical footprint of operations, making workers more mobile and meeting the needs of a decentralized workforce
- Global extension of key initiatives and tools to support virtual teams
- Legal resource optimization using metrics and reports, automated benchmarking and alternative service providers
- Operating models and efficiency initiatives, including retooling workflow processes and the focus on legal project management
- Managing risk through e-discovery preparedness and compliance systems
- Managing information using enterprise search and knowledge management, and the impact of social media

Speaker:
Rebecca Thorkildsen is Senior Director of Hildebrandt Baker Robbins's Law Department Service Line where she serves as a strategic advisor to law departments considering process and technology improvements leveraging systems, such as matter management, electronic billing, contract management corporate secretary, and business intelligence. With more than fourteen years of experience in business and technology consulting, Rebecca's primary specialties include strategic technology planning, business process reviews; spend management programs; and system selections and implementations. Prior to joining Hildebrandt Baker Robbins, Rebecca worked in Arthur Andersen's Business Consulting Strategic Technology Group, where she helped to establish the Lotus Notes and Electronic Commerce practices. She can be reached at rthorkildsen@brco.com.

Jane Bennitt is a Manager at Hildebrandt Baker Robbins and brings more than sixteen years of hands-on experience in implementing collaborative client and outside counsel solutions. She is a subject matter expert in the creation and deployment of collaborative case management and e-billing solutions, specializing in global e-billing and contract management solutions. Jane works with law departments, insurance claims organizations, law firms and vendors needing assistance with requirements-gathering around workflow and business processes, compliance concerns, designing and implementing automated solutions, data availability and quality, and creating metrics to support business process improvement for a variety of legal applications. Continuing in her role as President of the LEDES Oversight Committee since 2006, Jane is the principal author of the LEDES XML E-Billing versions 2.0 and 2.1 in 2006 and 2008, respectively, intended to support global e-billing. She can be reached at jbennitt@brco.com.