Conference Day Two: 27th January 2010

9:00 Co-Chair’s Welcome

9:15 Controlling Costs While Controlling Risk: Legal Expense Management Strategies Every In House Legal Team Should Know

  • How to minimise outside counsel fees and related IT expenses
  • Mitigating risk by providing transparency for better and faster decision making
  • Doing more with less: Improving the performance of your existing resources
  • Leveraging technology to get the most value in-house – and out-house
  • Measuring law department performance: the latest trends and tools
  • eBilling: What General Counsel want legal technology managers to know
  • Strategies and technologies to reduce the administrative burden on in-house lawyers
  • From 150 law firms to 2: How Levi Strauss & Co. is significantly driving down legal costs - and the role technology is playing within the new framework

Pavel Klimov
General Counsel, UK and EMEA
UNISYS LTD

Deepak Malhotra
Senior Vice President & General Counsel
Constellation Europe

Sandrine Besnard-Corblet
Regional General Counsel
Levi Strauss & Co. EMEA

Gerard Willsher
VP & Chief Counsel, Global Operations
Pitney Bowes

Session Q&A led by:

David Jabbari
Partner & Chief Operating Officer
Barlow Lyde & Gilbert LLP

10:45 Morning Refreshment And Networking Break

11:15 Controlling Legal Costs By Understanding Legal Spend: Increasing Transparency Through E-Billing

  • 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
  • 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

12:00 Networking Lunch

13:00 Maximising The Business Value Of Knowledge Management

  • Developing KM procedures and systems within tight budgetary constraints
  • Making the technology, processes and people work together
  • Bridging the gap between internal KM requirements and client needs

Wendy Small
Head of Knowledge Management
Eversheds LLP

13:45 Making The Most Of The Technologies You Have At A Time Of Increased Operational, Economic And Regulatory Pressure

  • An intranet knowledge system update and supplement: Improving productivity, reducing costs and eliminating risk
  • Using Interwoven WorkSite Web and MS SharePoint for document management and intranet integration
  • Reducing cycle times so attorneys are free to work on strategic tasks
  • Managing the logistics, retention, and disposition of both physical and electronic records

Mark Collins
Head of Knowledge
Nabarro LLP

14:30 Afternoon Refreshment Break

15:00 Global Law Department Optimisation: Leveraging IT To Drive Process, Practice And People Improvements In A Global Environment

  • Managing lawyers in multiple jurisdictions, cultures and time zones
  • Developing a framework for an initial legal structure and service review, re-design and deployment: designing and implementing metrics, systems and processes necessary to reduce costs and improve law department efficiencies
  • Matter management: Using technology to maximise capacity and control while minimising risk and expense

Steve Coope
Legal Director UK
Sara Lee

Richard Given
Director of Legal, Emerging Markets
Cisco

16:00 Rationalising Your Resources: Why Enterprise Search May Not Be The Holy Grail

Rationalising your resources: finding the right technology application for the right content

  • The Legal KM cocktail: document management systems, wikis, matter management and a database or two
  • The intensified burden of search and retrieval: Coping with the limitations of enterprise search

Claire Andrews
Director of Knowledge Management - Europe and Asia
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP

16:45 Chairperson’s Closing Remarks And Conference Ends

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