Sentences with phrase «legal operations improvement»

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Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

In - house KM and legal operations: Making K work without the # to support your legal function and use of legal process improvement

Employing process improvement methodology will help a law firm to be better — to deliver a higher quality legal work product supported by efficient internal operations.

Thanks to ongoing technological improvements to enterprise legal management software, in - house operations are more efficient than ever.

Firms are increasingly recognising that expertise in project management and process improvement could provide an important means for transforming the operations of the legal business and opening up new avenues for further legal services innovation.

This whitepaper highlights how innovative law departments have taken a more strategic approach to legal operations by focusing on three areas for improvement.

Process improvement and the operational side of the practice of law were a major focus, specifically with the rise of the now separate legal operations roles at several law firms and in - house legal departments.

Given the associated improvements in operations and outcomes, an ELM system represents the soundest possible investment for any medium to large corporate legal department.

Given the importance of law firms to the legal department's success, we wanted to offer a tool that would help legal operations professionals to assess the status of their vendor management programs and identify opportunities for improvement.

Students will be exposed to basic data collection techniques in legal settings, simple metrics useful in measuring legal operations, methods to manage discrete projects and portfolios of matters, staffing opportunities, process mapping, process improvement techniques, client engagement, measuring value exchanges, and simple legal service delivery technologies.

The ability to benchmark legal spend and legal operations performance to industry peers using data from LegalVIEW ®, the world's largest data warehouse of legal performance data, allows clients to identify where they excel, as well as opportunities for improvement (available exclusively to LegalVIEW Alliance Members)

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