Lumen Legal Webinars

When:  Thursday, November 8, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. EST
Guest Speaker:  Doug Ventola, President of Sky Analytics
Host:  David Galbenski, Founder & EVP of Strategic Initiatives, Lumen Legal
Duration: 60 minutes
Cost: Free!

Corporate legal departments continue to seek to get more work done with less resources and are asking law firms to perform legal services, better, faster and cheaper.  By unlocking treasure troves of data trapped in legal invoices, corporate legal departments are using data analytics to increase transparency into their own legal spend and perform real-time comparative benchmarking.

What if you could easily benchmark your law firm spend data against your peers?  Would you realize you’re paying more per hour for the same lawyer than others? Could you identify matters that are taking longer than they should?

Join us on November 8th for this free webinar to learn how legal analytics can help you:

• Obtain a clearer picture of your legal spend
• Ensure you are getting competitive rates
• Find the best law firms and attorneys
• Better understand where your attorneys are spending their time
• And much more…

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When:  Friday, October 26, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. EDT, 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. BST
Guest Speaker:  Jeff Carr, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, FMC Technologies, Inc.
Topic Expert:  Paul Smith, Partner, Eversheds Consulting
Host:  David Galbenski, Founder & EVP of Strategic Initiatives, Lumen Legal
Duration: 60 minutes
Cost: Free!

Join David Galbenski, Lumen Legal’s EVP of Strategic Initiatives, and Paul Smith, a Partner with Eversheds Consulting, as they talk to Jeff Carr about how he gets the most from his outside counsel.  Mr. Carr is the Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary for FMC Technologies, Inc. which is a leading global provider of technology solutions for the energy industry.  It was named by Fortune magazine as the world’s most admired oil and gas equipment service company in 2012. 

Mr. Carr is responsible for the design and implementation of the company’s very successful “ACES” law firm engagement model.  He carried out a comprehensive overhaul of the legal department’s management models and systems. 

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When:  Thursday, August 16, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. EDT
Guest Speaker: Amy Schuh, Chief of Staff, VP and Deputy General Counsel, Operations and Alliances, Hewlett Packard
Topic Expert:  John O’Connor, President & COO, Lumen Legal
Host: Paul Smith, Partner, Eversheds Consulting
Duration: 60 minutes
Cost: Free!

Join John O’Connor as he talks to Amy Schuh about how she balances all the options for delivery of legal services at HP.  Flexible lawyer placements, managed services, outsourcing and offshoring will be discussed. 

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When:  Thursday, August 9, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. EDT
Guest Speaker: Conor R. Crowley, vice chair of the Steering Committee for the Sedona Conference Working Group on Best Practices for Electronic Document Retention and Production
Host: David Galbenski, EVP of Strategic Initiatives, Lumen Legal
Duration: 60 minutes
Cost: Free!

Join David Galbenski as he interviews Conor R. Crowley, an internationally recognized expert in e-discovery and e-compliance.  He will highlight the latest trends in e-discovery technology, discuss the latest rulings and address best practices for electronic document retention and production.

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When: June 13, 11:00 a.m. EDT
Speakers: Debra Kuper, VP, General Counsel & Secretary, AGCO and David Galbenski, Founder & Chairman, Lumen Legal
Host: Ron Lippitt, VP of Global Services, Lumen Legal
Duration: 60 minutes
Cost: Free!

There is no uniform solution for managing your legal spend. Your solution hinges on a number of elements such as the magnitude of external spend, the way work is allocated and the geographical spread of work.  Join David Galbenski, Founder & Chairman of Lumen Legal, as he interviews Debra Kuper, about how she manages the legal spend of AGCO Corporation, a $9 billion publicly traded global agricultural equipment manufacturer.   Ms. Kuper manages a legal staff of 37 in-house lawyers and staff located around the globe.

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When: May 17, 1:00 p.m. EDT
Speakers: Doug Ventola, President, Sky Analytics and David Galbenski, Founder & Chairman, Lumen Legal
Host: Ron Lippitt, VP of Global Services, Lumen Legal
Duration: 60 minutes
Cost: Free!

As a corporate counsel, what if you could easily benchmark your law firm spend data against your peers?  Would you realize you’re paying more per hour for the same lawyer than others? Could you compare matter cost and duration across firms?  All of this is possible with new analytical tools designed for corporate legal departments.  Join David Galbenski as he highlights the latest analytical trends impacting the legal industry.  He’ll also interview Doug Ventola, President of Sky Analytics, a company exclusively focused on outside cost control for General Counsel.

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When: April 26, 11:00 a.m. EDT/4:00 p.m. GMT
Guest Speaker: John Jenkins, VP, Corporate Secretary and International General Counsel, Tyco International
Topic Expert: Paul Smith, Partner, Eversheds Consulting
Host: Ron Lippitt, VP of Global Services, Lumen Legal
Duration: 60 minutes
Cost: Free!

The legal department of Tyco International found success in two ways.  First, when they began working collaboratively with their procurement department to purchase legal services and second when they formally developed Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) for their individual employees, legal department and outside law firms.  Join Paul Smith, a partner with Eversheds Consulting and John Jenkins, Tyco’s International General Counsel, as they share the challenges and lessons learned along the way.

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This is part of a webinar series presented by Lumen Legal and Eversheds Consulting to help Corporate Counsel meet the challenges of a changing legal marketplace.

When: March 8, 11:00 a.m. EST/4:00 p.m. UK
Guest Speaker: James Shomper, Corporate Counsel, DuPont USA
Moderator: Paul Smith, Partner, Eversheds Consulting
Host: Ron Lippitt, VP of Global Client Services, Lumen Legal
Duration: 60 minutes

Find out how the DuPont corporate legal department moved from a cost center to a profit center that generates over $300 million in revenue per year. Breaches of contract, stolen IP, damaged goods, post merger contracts and tax assessment – the possibilities for recovery are many. Join Paul Smith, a partner with Eversheds Consulting, as he shares the process and methodology to generate revenue. He will be joined by guest speaker, Mr. James Shomper, who chairs the DuPont Legal Recoveries Program, a collaborative program designed to proactively identify and track global legal recoveries.

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This is part of a webinar series presented by Lumen Legal and Eversheds Consulting to help Corporate Counsel meet the challenges of a changing legal marketplace.

When: February 9, 1:00 p.m. EST/6:00 p.m. UK
Guest Speaker: Gabor Garai, Partner, Foley Lardner
Moderator: Dan Gaffney, President & CEO, Brightleaf Corporation
Host: Ron Lippitt, VP of Global Client Services, Lumen Legal
Duration: 60 minutes
Cost: Free!

Learn how law firms and corporate legal departments are using technology to deliver legal services better, faster and cheaper. Join Dan Gaffney, the President & CEO of Brightleaf Corporation, and Ron Lippitt, Lumen Legal’s VP of Global Client Services, as they discuss the advantages of using legal document automation software. They will also be joined by guest speaker, Gabor Garai, a Foley Lardner partner. Mr. Garai is the chair of the firm’s Private Equity & Venture Capital Practice. He will share how he’s used Brightleaf software to reduce cost, generate additional revenue and improve turnaround time at his firm.

This webinar series is designed to help law firms and corporate legal departments use technology as a competitive advantage to provide services better, faster and cheaper. They occur every quarter.

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