Training Course - Legal Operations: Roadmap for Law Firms

07.01.2024
Training Course - Legal Operations: Roadmap for Law Firms

What Does Legal Operations Mean for Law Firms?


Date

8 February 2024

3pm - 5pm CET

Registration Fee

EUR 200 / participant (+VAT)


Legal operations is what it takes to run a law firm (as a business) on top of practicing law by profession. It encompasses client management, strategic planning, legal project management, financial oversight, and legal industry expertise.

Optimizing law firm operations is all about efficiency and effectiveness: how can the firm best deploy its lawyers and technology resources to advance the clients’ goals, manage legal risks and showcase the added-value created with legal work? 

Legal Operations: Roadmap for Law Firms is a training course hosted by InvestCEE LegalTech Consultancy designed to provide strategic guidance to optimizing legal service delivery with technology. This course is dedicated to law firm leaders and decision-makers (owners, partners, operations managers, IT and process leaders).

The 2-hour online course will take place on February 8, 2024 (3pm - 5pm CET). The registration fee is EUR 200 / participant (+VAT).

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Agenda for the Roadmap Course

The course enables a complex learning experience for law firm leaders.


Part A provides strategic guidance for 10 key areas of law firm operations:

1. Client Intelligence: Capturing matter data to make better decisions, optimize firm processes & workflows and focus on understanding clients’ needs.

2. Financial Management: Developing accurate budgets and tracking forecasts throughout the business year to encourage the responsible usage of resources.

3. Technology Partner Management: Selecting and onboarding the adequate service providers, establishing fair pricing models for short-term projects (e.g., audit for a client) and long-term operations (e.g., client relationship management, matter workflow, etc).

4. Technology Tools & Automation: Identifying manual and/or repetitive legal work processes for optimization via legaltech and automation techniques, to improve both internal efficiency and client-facing legal service.

5. Data Security & Governance: Creating policies for sharing and retaining information, managing information security, and ensuring compliance.

6. Knowledge Management: Enabling a law firm culture of sharing information, designing for flexibility in workflows and supporting all team members with shared know-how captured in step-plans and playbooks.

7. Collaboration & Team Management: Optimizing legal practice operations by creating a value-driven law firm culture, building on the human skillsets and expertise in the team, and strengthening teams by providing them with adequate tools to perform their work efficiently and collaboratively.

8. Workflow Management: Giving management, lawyers and staff access to accurate, real-time updated database for all matters, opportunities, projects and tasks, to ensure an operating model that matches the type work to the right skillset and resources.

9. Innovation & Development: Designing legal service delivery models that combine traditional legal skills with tech-assisted ways of working, enabling a professional career model for continuing development matched with individual skills and needs.

10. Strategic Planning: Setting short-term objectives and formulating long-term goals to prioritize a law firm agenda aligned with client needs, team goals and legal market developments.


Part B provides hands-on practical demonstration regarding:

➤ Legal matter management

➤ Document automation

➤ AI-assisted legal service solutions (e.g., contract review, legal data analysis, etc.)


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