Workshops

Pre-Conference Workshops : 25th January 2010

09:00 pm – 12:00 pm Workshop A: Identifying What Tools (And Spend) Meet Your Legal And Infrastructure Demands: Assessing, Auditing And Enhancing Your Legal Technology

  • Conducting an audit of your current vendors and processes
  • Vendor procurement and management strategies:
    • creating an RFP to interview and short-list vendors
    • developing a standardized pricing model and performance metrics against which to measure vendors
    • working closely with procurement when sourcing
    • pricing models
  • Actively managing the vendors chosen and work performed to ensure you receive commensurate value for your investment

13:00 pm – 16:00 pm Workshop B: Managing Global e-Disclosure: Collecting, Hosting, Reviewing And Producing Data In International Investigations, Discovery And Disclosure

  • Understanding the rules that apply to data privacy, retention, preservation and destruction in various jurisdictions
  • Managing the logistics of global eDisclosure
  • Configuring your IT infrastructure and data systems to facilitate international investigations and discovery
  • How to recognize what is legally required for your industry and the jurisdictions in which your company operates
  • How to develop the policies and systems required to ensure compliant safeguards during any cross–border dispute or investigation

Post-Conference Workshops: 28th January 2010

09:00 pm – 12:00 pm Workshop C: A Guide To International Matter Management: Tracking Global Matter Activity, Spend And Exposure

  • Reducing risk and managing compliance by consolidating all your matter data into one system
  • Tracking global matter activity, spend and exposure
  • Anticipating and managing system integration challenges
  • Developing a plan to optimize the benefit of enterprise-wide matter management while minimizing the impact of change

13:00 pm – 16:00 pm Workshop D: Legal e-Billing Implementation Best Practices: Increasing Control Of Legal Spend

  • Developing an overall view of your legal spend by matter, business unit and law firm
  • Legal ebilling implementation: tax and regulatory considerations
  • Automating invoice review and approval processes to improve communication and efficiency