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Title: |
Using Technology to Manage Costs, Increase Profitability and Support Billable Hour Alternatives |
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Area of Discipline: |
Business Strategy |
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Description: |
Law firm clients have been and will be focusing more on billable-hour alternatives. Clients are also choosing firms that do not have to "reinvent the wheel" for them for non-unique matters (transactional or litigation). Technology and processs improvement can be used to help firms meet their clients' needs for value billing and other billable hour alternatives, as well as help attract and retain the best clients. One area is work product reuse, and in order to do this well, firms must apply best practice processes to vetting and retaining the best documents and technology to find relevant documents. |
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Date/Time: |
8/25/2009 1:30 p.m.
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Location: |
Nat'l Harbor 10&11 |
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Learning Objectives: |
Understand changes occurring in the market place as clients seek to lower overall legal spend through alternative arrangements; develop strategies for engaging firm management in developing strategies to address client demands; understand approaches being taken by some firms to equip the firm’s lawyers to lower costs for the client while maintaining acceptable levels of firm profitability. |
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Target Audience: |
CFOs/Accounting Professionals
CIOs/IT Management/Technology Partners
Executive Directors/Administrators
KM Professionals
Practice Mgmt Prof's (client serv/bus analyst) |
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