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A new program with all new content to help you Accelerate into 2021 and beyond. A calendar packed with insights, thought leadership from industry leaders, our experts, and your peers! Check back for more events and replays and share with your colleagues.

July 22, 2021
11:00am-12:00pm ET

 

LegalVIEW Insights: Are CLDs without mature e-billing systems overpaying for outside legal counsel? 

 

Reports from top law firms indicate their revenue grows almost every year, up to 8% in recent years. But data shows that corporate law departments (CLDs) on Wolters Kluwer e-billing systems, on average, basically aren’t paying a dime more than they were six years ago in total outside legal costs.

 

How can this be? Well, it could be because CLDs with legal ops and mature e-billing—CLDs like Wolters Kluwer clients—have gotten really good at “playing defense,” preventing unreasonable cost increases, and moving work to cheaper options when appropriate. In contrast, a recent report suggested that 91% of private equity firms—companies that drive a lot of the revenue growth of the Am Law 100 and especially the Am Law 25—don’t even have e-billing, let alone legal ops.

 

Are these companies overpaying and basically subsidizing legal costs for the rest of the civilized world? In this session, three legal ops veterans will share their views on the above and more, including an exploration of the extreme volatility in legal spend seen in individual CLDs and how those CLDs can turn that volatility to their advantage during the annual departmental budgeting process. 

 

Speakers:

  • Nathan Cemenska, Associate Director Product Manger, Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions
  • Tiffani Hamilton-Huynh, Legal Operations Manager, DHL Supply
  • Chain Don Knight, Director, Legal and Tax Operations, Crown Castle

 

June 8, 2021
1:40pm-2:15pm ET

 

[World CC Vibe Summit] How Westchester Medical Center Health Network Took CLM Processes from the Stone Age to Digital in 90 Days

 

As little as 90 days ago, shuffling paper contracts between attorneys and chasing down wet signatures were common occurrences for the team at Westchester Medical Center Health Network.  The resulting inefficiencies and headaches propelled the legal team’s search for a CLM solution that could address:

  • Central, searchable contract storage
  • Custom contract workflows to address organization-wide needs
  • Complete process transparency in support of strong risk mitigation
  • Scalability to grow as the organization’s processes mature

Join this session to hear directly from those who implemented CLM Matrix. Learn how they quickly solved each of these key stakeholder needs with outstanding adoption rates, and their vision for future CLM capabilities to further improve business outcomes. 

 

Speakers:

  • Lee Matthews, Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions
  • Priscila Hess, Senior Manager HR Operations and Engagement, Westchester Medical Center Health Network
  • Tracy Tillery, Vice President, Rewards and Engagement, Westchester Medical Center Health

June 2, 2021
11:00am-12:00pm ET

 

[World CC Webinar (CLM)]  Impacts of Powerful CLM Workflow Automation 

 

Working in a highly regulated public agency carries the demands of adhering to rules, regulations and laws that dictate how contracts can be managed.  Learn how the team at St. Johns River Water Management District introduced workflow automation to their contract management practices to:

  • Increase operational efficiencies for a stronger organization-wide focus on strategic efforts
  • Speed time to revenue through the use of timely right-person, right-time alerts
  • Ensure organizational agility and automated policy enforcement for greater compliance

Join this session to hear directly from a CLM workflow administrator.  We’ll share the keys to her team’s success and best practices to consider when implementing your own CLM workflow automation.

 

Speakers:

  • Wendy Cox, Procurement Director, St. Johns River Water Management District
  • Edward Pecelli, Consulting Associate Director, Wolters Kluwer’s ELM Solutions

 

April 15, 2021

 

LegalVIEW® Insights Webinar: 2020 - A Pause in Corporate Legal Department Supplier Relationships

 

The disruption of the pandemic appears to be lifting, giving the world a chance to take a step back and ask itself, “What just happened?” In legal, the data is in and it shows that 16% of relationships between corporate law departments and their outside firms were put on “hold” for the entire year of 2020-- not a single invoice for services changed hands. 


Will those relationships come back? It is too early to tell, but early data on the legal industry’s approach to technology suggests the industry is open to a major re-evaluation of how it does business.


In this webinar, panelists will present a deep dive into the data around law firm relationships from the recently published LegalVIEW® Insights Report, Volume 1, based on data from the ELM Solutions' LegalVIEW database.

 

Speakers:

  • Nathan Cemenska, Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions
  • Brad Blickstein, Principal, Blickstein Group
  • Richard Brzakala, Director of Legal Operations, CIBC

 

June 16, 2021
11:30am-12:30pm ET

 

[ACC XChange] Rightsourcing Optimization: Decision Tree-based Approaches

 

In this interactive session, speakers will review data and insights from the Wolters Kluwer LegalVIEW database focused on the trends and key factors influencing hourly rates and law firm selection. In addition, two legal business leaders from UBS will stimulate discussion with their story of law department transformation, including their use of the ACC Maturity model as well as their new “smart sourcing” framework. Attendees will then break out into discussion groups focusing on the topics above as well as adjacent topics like panel management, knowing the expertise within your own legal department, and trends in insourcing.

 

Speakers:

  • Nathan Cemenska, Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions
  • UBS

 

 

May 5, 2021

 


Putting AI to work in your legal department – get answers to your top questions from the experts

 

With AI adoption increasing in the legal industry, the applied use of AI in the legal department has accelerated to become less of a question of “why change” to more of a set of questions of “how and where to change”?  With pressure to deliver better business outcomes, including operational efficiencies, cost containment, compliance, and risk mitigation, GCs and legal operations leaders need a proper framework to make smarter AI-related business decisions.   

 

Join us for a conversation with data and technology experts on what it takes to put AI to work in your legal department - get insights on the top questions and considerations you need to consider when investing in an AI solution and what to look at and plan for when evaluating providers.

 

Speakers:

  • Jeffrey Solomon, Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions
  • Alyza Tarmohamed, Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions
  • Abishek Mittal, Wolters Kluwer

 

 

June 9, 2021
2:00pm-3:00pm ET

 

[Legal Operators Webinar] Innovating Legal Operations with Applied AI

 

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has made its way into legal ops and is here to stay: innovating key workflows, like invoice review, paper invoice processing and choosing the right law firm/vendor for litigated matters. The impact can be impressive – generating real cost savings, significant compliance improvement and more predictable budgeting and forecasting are just some of the benefits. In the session, hear how Chubb planned for their innovation journey, and took their workflows to the next level with the implementation of AI solutions and services.

 

Speakers :

  • Jonathan Weber, Legal Operations Leader, Chubb 
  • Jeffrey Solomon, Senior Director, Product Management, Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions 

 

 

May 10, 2021
1:25pm - 2:25pm ET

 

[CLOC Webinar] LegalVIEW® Insights Webinar: 2020 - A Pause in Corporate Legal Department Supplier Relationships 

 


The disruption of the pandemic appears to be lifting, giving the world a chance to take a step back and ask itself, “What just happened?” In legal, the data is in and it shows that 16% of relationships between corporate law departments and their outside firms were put on “hold” for the entire year of 2020-- not a single invoice for services changed hands. 


Will those relationships come back? It is too early to tell, but early data on the legal industry’s approach to technology suggests the industry is open to a major re-evaluation of how it does business.


In this webinar, panelists will present a deep dive into the data around law firm relationships from the recently published LegalVIEW® Insights Report, Volume 1, based on data from the ELM Solutions' LegalVIEW database.

 

Speakers:

  • Jeffrey Solomon, Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions
  • Nathan Cemenska, Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions
  • Richard Brzakala, Director of Legal Operations, CIBC

 

 

Date: TBD

 

Venturella Brief:  Law firm convergence & panel management 

 

What is law firm convergence, what’s driving it, and how do you employ it when managing your firms? Vince Venturella, Associate Director, Technology Product Management, will discuss the factors driving firm rates and the benefits of cutting down how many firms your organization maintains.

 

He’ll discuss using continuous objective and subjective analysis to evaluate your firms. Join us for this quick briefing!

 

 

Speaker: 

  • Vince Venturella, Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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