Chris is Director of Consulting and Legal Business Solutions at Elevate, partnering
with legal department operations management and law firm client value leaders, to increase maturity and improve efficiencies to reach their savings and profitability potential.
As always, the most recent report contains a wealth of information on corporate legal billing practices and legal spend management of interest to General Counsel,
legal department operations managers and in - house counsel.
Todd previously served as Executive Director and Global Head of Legal Business Solutions for JPMorgan Chase & Co., where he
managed legal department operations, including the selection and spend management of outside counsel and other legal service providers, as well as the creation and implementation of strategic cost and relationship management programs.
Writing in an article in Corporate Counsel last week, Dan Currell, director of client solutions at Novus Law and Aaron Kotok, legal practice leader at CEB, assessed the state
of legal department operations.
---------------------------------- Legal Department Optimization White Paper Leveraging a Maturity Model to Achieve Operational Excellence A framework for benchmarking and
improving legal department operations.
A few months ago an article published on this blog
discussed legal department operations (LDO) as a functional business area that's come into its own, and how the expanded and growing role and responsibilities of LDO professionals is clearly here to stay.
«To me,
legal department operations is the professionalization of management within the legal department,» said Mr. Flaherty.
Many small legal departments begin their legal operations team with an e-billing specialist who typically focuses on administering the spend / matter management system used by the legal department
Here are the metrics
some legal department operations leaders said they were looking at during the conference:
General Counsels typically have great difficulty in proving and communicating to the Executive Team the value of
their legal department operations and teams.
Legal department operations (LDO) is a growing segment of the legal industry focused on improving operational aspects of law department management.
HOUSTON, April 2, 2013 — Datacert, Inc., the premier global provider of enterprise legal management solutions, today announced that AkzoNobel, a leading global paints and coatings company and a major producer of specialty chemicals, headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, has selected Passport ® Matter Management and Legal Spend Management to add more efficiency and accountability to
its legal department operations.