College of Law Practice Management

05/24/2022

FUTURES FORUM: JUNE 7, 2022, 12 p.m. CT

TOPIC: Can We Evolve Legal Services Regulation to Increase Access to Justice and Spur Innovation in Legal Service Delivery?

Register for this free, live one-hour session here:
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYldumpqDkvH9AqJry42_vl16PDwikbMaht

PANELISTS:

Deno Himonas, Partner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Crispin Passmore, Founding and Managing Director, Passmore Consulting

Lucy Ricca, Director of Policy and Programs for the Center on the Legal Profession, Stanford Law School

Moderator, Chris Boyd, Chief Operating Officer, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Legal services are generally too expensive and difficult to procure for many consumers. And many companies would welcome greater value and innovation from their legal service providers. To address these challenges, some jurisdictions are seeking to increase access to justice and spur innovation in l...

10/01/2021

Please join the College in congratulating the 2021 winners of the InnovAction Awards:

• InnovAction—Digitory Legal, together with its client, Kaiser Permanente;

• InnovActor—Liz Keith, Program Director at Pro Bono Net; and

• InnovAction Rising Star—Julia Farr, Senior Manager, Osler Dash at Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP.

Winners will be recognized on November 15 during the 2021 Futures Conference. See https://clpm.memberclicks.net/2021-awards-announced for more details about our winners!

09/01/2021

FUTURES FORUM: The Non-BD BD Talk
September 22, 2021 - 3:00 p.m. Central

What should law firms be doing outside of direct Business Development (BD) to help their lawyers be more successful at generating work? And what should clients be expecting from their law firms when they are rewarding those law firms with work?

Join us as our panel discusses areas such as:

* leveraging data for BD (i.e. giving lawyer super powers through data analytics for BD);
* integrating pricing, service delivery, and BD together; and
* organizing the firm around the client, not the firm (i.e. industry focussed instead of practice focused)

Presenters: Matt Peters, McCarthy Tetrault LLP; Bobbi Basile, HBR Consulting; and Scott Pickup, Irving Shipbuilding.

Register at: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMrf-CqqDgsG9GLXgbD4ZrREjcDe9egyrLj

07/09/2021

The College of Law Practice Management is pleased to announce the election of an outstanding class of Fellows-Elect. See:

https://clpm.memberclicks.net/assets/docs/Class_of_2021_Fellows-Elect.pdf

Our new Fellows-Elect exemplify the College's goal to honor those "whose sustained performance in the practice of their profession exemplifies the highest standards."

College Fellows come from all corners of our field—law firms, law companies, legal departments, not-for-profit services, other industry organizations, education, courts, management and strategy, technology, knowledge management, innovation, pricing, business development, marketing, recruiting, and professional development.

06/24/2021

Join us July 20, 2021, at 3:00 p.m. CDT for another Futures Forum session. "Together Again: Returning to the Office or Reimagining Working Remotely" will be moderated by legal industry analyst, Ari Kaplan. Panelists include Barbara Dunn, a principal at Gensler, Maureen Harms, associate general counsel and managing counsel at 3M, and Suzanne Schwartz, the senior office administrator and paralegal coordinator for Ogletree Deakins in Milwaukee.

This session, which will be recorded, is open to the public and there is no registration fee.

Read a detailed session description and register at:

https://www.collegeoflpm.org/together-again

05/18/2021

Join us August 3, 2021 at 11:00 a.m. CDT for the College's Futures Forum session titled: Closing Firm-Client Communication Gaps; a Survey Report Comparing Firm-Client Views and a Discussion on Feedback. Open to the public. See event description and register for the session at: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAlcOCpqj8vEtJDU_RS9eVuUQSgIjzmk4-k

04/16/2021

The inaugural COLPM Book Club meeting, exclusively for College Fellows, has been scheduled. Join us May 20, 2021 at 2:30 p.m. CT. The authors of BigLaw: Money and Meaning in the Modern Law Firm, Mitt Regan and Lisa H Rohrer, will join us to answer questions and may give their own comments on the discussion! Fellows should refer to their invitation for the registration link for this session. Or, log in at www.collegeoflpm.org and click on the COLPM Book Club Meeting link in the Upcoming Events section of the home page.

04/09/2021

Register for our next Futures Forum event at: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcuc-CgrDIqEtdHJq8lZlneRIglG0hpu9Fv

02/18/2021

Register for the next Futures Forum, coming March 2, at:
https://www.collegeoflpm.org/index.php?option=com_jevents&task=icalrepeat.detail&evid=69&Itemid=115&year=2021&month=03&day=02&title=futures-forum-four-lessons-from-the-pandemic&uid=22a6233c9fb4d5a5222d370a9aaebb90

02/10/2021

College Fellow Gina Rubel's On Record PR podcast features great conversations, including chats with Fellows Bob Ambrogi, Tim Corcoran, Marcie Borgal Shunk, Joan Feldman, Jordan Furlong, Patrick Fuller, and Heather Morse.

In this episode of On Record PR, Gina Rubel goes on record with Joan Feldman, co-founder and editor-in-chief at Attorney at Work.

01/09/2021

One year ago today, at 11:27 p.m. Eastern time, I received a text from my long-time friend Kevin O'Keefe, the founder and CEO of LexBlog. It said simply,