Events

Technologies available to legal departments are endless. How can general counsel and legal operations leaders sort through the noise and formulate a cohesive, long-term strategy to achieve the right balance of people, process and technology? Join us to hear how McDonald’s Corporation has done just that in achieving significant transformation of its global legal operations. Curtis Batterton, Legal Operations & Global Technology Manager at McDonald’s will present an exclusive case study.

You’ll learn how to:

• Assess your current state, gaps, and goals
• Develop a long-term vision for your technology portfolio and resourcing model
• Implement a platform and solution strategy aligned the needs of the business
• Roll out document management internationally
• Manage change and driving user adoption

Join this live discussion between David Griffin of BT and Silvia Hodges-Silverstein of Buying Legal Council, moderated by Onit’s Robert Johnson, to hear war stories and best practices around purchasing legal services and designing legal operations to optimise efficiency and strategic decision-making.

Learn about how BT is creating the ultimate lean legal department with automated legal service request and reporting tools combined with tools to align legal with procurement best practices in managing outside counsel.

Hear from a leading expert in legal procurement about how to incorporate procurement best practices into the sourcing of legal services and what to consider when leveraging technology to manage that process.

Challenged to serve its business clients faster and more efficiently – while reducing costs – the Pearson legal department went on a transformative journey to move from a highly bespoke legal services model into a more standardized and streamlined way of delivering support to the business. Now, Pearson takes a process-driven and technology-enabled approach to everything from contracts to business advice. The results have been the same quality of work at significantly lower cost and higher velocity.

This webinar will showcase why and how the Pearson legal department redefined itself and how it now supports and executes contract work. It will address:

• The critical role of executive sponsorship and change management
• Performance management dashboards and SLAs
• Hybrid resourcing and service delivery operating model
• How Onit’s technology platform supports end-to-end process automation and web-based self-service portals
• The resulting benefits which include cost savings, efficiency, reduced risk, use of data for better decision-making and improved business customer support

Join us to hear how Corteva Agriscience has built a global panel of preferred law firms and is using technology to ensure its maximum sustained value. Experts from Onit and PERSUIT will join Gregg McConnell of Corteva to discuss best practices for creating and managing a panel of preferred firms and how to leverage technology to enable the strategy, including:

• Putting rigor behind how to allocate work to your panel firms
• Creating the right programs for different types of work (example IP vs. litigation)
• Automating enforcement of panel guidelines and fee agreements
• Evaluating panel firm effectiveness and complianc
• Reporting on the value obtained from preferred firms