Industry: Legal

No one knows what the next normal will look like, yet it’s imperative that business-of-law professionals exert their substantial influence onto what it should look like. Our industry finds itself in an in-between space, in a time that has shown us that our old ways of working can — and should — be left behind. For law firms, this revelation presents a universe of options for improving the ways they drive growth. Many law firms have ignored the act of forecasting, a best-practices mainstay in other industries. By doing so, these firms are hampering their opportunities for success. Business leaders in other fields know that forecasting can add a level of predictability — a backdrop against which your firm can build strategies, resource projects, and measure success. So why isn’t the practice of forecasting more widespread — and what can be done to change this reality? Join Intapp Chief Product Officer Thad Jampol, Perkins Coie Chief Practice Management Officer Toby Brown, and Intapp Senior Vice President, Strategic Marketing Pam Smith as they share insights on why it’s time to shift away from our industry’s pre-pandemic thinking and embrace the practice of setting goals — and meeting them — to build lasting success. This session will explore our new reality and demonstrate how firms can confidently deploy their new forecasting skills to illuminate insights and leverage long-term advantage.

The subject of law firm profitability has become popular recently – and for good reason. With real business forces impacting firms, lawyers can no longer avoid the subject. Most of the programs out there have taken a decidedly limited look at the subject, given that most in the industry are still getting to know it. This program is going to move well beyond that “shallow” look, diving deeper into the forces driving firm margins and exploring how and where firms can have the greatest impact on the bottom-line. This program also takes a unique approach, bringing together two experts with deep knowledge on profitability – from competing legal technology companies. LVN has made it a core value of including providers as equals in our community. This is a first example of that core value and we look forward to bringing more content like this going forward. Join this session to get a more rounded, more complete understanding of law firm profitability.

Living in a complex, fast-paced, and rapidly shifting world has elevated firms’ pressures and tested their business resilience. Although enterprise risk management approaches can mitigate these pressures, practical challenges to execution remain. In this webinar, we’ll explore the opportunity at hand to nurture sustainable, resilient, and profitable business through a connected firm strategy. Join us to hear perspectives from a panel of risk management experts: Darryl Cross, Director of Global Sales Enablement at Intapp; Kian Poon, Director at Intapp Strategic Consulting; and Anthony Davis, Of Counsel at Clyde & Co US.

What does it mean to have a digital culture and why is it important? How can embedding a digital culture across your organization successfully drive digital transformation? Digital transformation is not simply about upgrading or replacing technology. It’s about creating appropriate operational structures and shifting the mindsets and capabilities of leaders (and their staff) to be able to apply digital techniques internally and for client service delivery. This helps to improve client engagement, deliver greater operational effectiveness, better manage risk, and create more sustainable levels of revenue and profitability. To answer these questions, Intapp has partnered with DEfactoED, a pioneer of digital learning. In this webinar, we’ll explore how firms have overcome traditional blockers to facilitating digital change by developing a “case for change”, incorporating a robust change strategy and embedding a digital culture in their organizational DNA. Join us to hear perspectives from a panel of technology strategists, digital learning experts and law firm leaders: Madaser Yousaf, Director at Intapp Strategic Consulting; David Knight, Chairman & Director of Innovation at DEfactoED; Matthias Lichtblau, Executive Director at CMS; and Scott Cochrane, Corporate Partner at HSF.

Join our Autumn 2020 Community of Success event to get up to speed on the recently released functionality of Intapp Workflow Automation. Functionality built to help you develop quicker and better support your business processes. We’ll also review the new Approval Rules module which simplifies creation and management of complex approval requirements around assigning and notifying approvers. Additionally, we’ll highlight upcoming features in future releases. We are also excited to provide an overview and demonstration of our new Intapp Integration Service. Learn how Intapp Integration Service can support your cloud and on-premise solutions to break down data silos within your firm.

This Intapp Technical Briefing for CIOs, CTOs, and other technical leaders within our legal community provides a deeper look at the Intapp technology foundation and product roadmap, with an eye toward helping you create a successful connected firm environment. During this 90-minute session, Intapp senior leaders — including Dan Harsell, Co-Founder and Senior Vice President of Technology, and Jose Lazares, Senior Vice President of Product Management and Innovation — provide updates on key areas of interest to IT executives: Data strategy, data analytics, and the development and use of AI in many Intapp products and suites The Intapp Platform foundation and interoperability capabilities, including common data services (CDS), data hub, and data model Our recently released Intapp Integration Service and updated Intapp Secure Cloud strategy

The COVID-19 pandemic dealt law firms and other professional service firms an unprecedented hand, but research shows that the professionalization of risk teams — and their firms’ support for distributed staff — helped position risk services to continue without interruption during stay-at-home restrictions. Tune in to hear a panel of experts reflect on key findings from our recent Intapp Risk Staffing Survey that firms can use to inform their strategies in the new normal: How staffing models — increasing professionalization of the risk function — and technology set the stage for remote work, and enabled effective operations during the early months of pandemic response How firms can balance a global risk perspective with pragmatic local requirements How we can better respond to the broadening mandate of risk departments: including client commitments, cybersecurity, and information governance Meg Block, Vice President at Intapp Risk Consulting, welcomes Patricia Fitzpatrick, Senior Director Compliance and Information Governance at Seyfarth Shaw, and Jennifer Schwendemann, Senior Director and Associate General Counsel of Risk Management at Littler Mendelson, for a discussion on how firms can tune leading practices based on research findings, and face the future with deeper insights into risk staffing implications.

This event — designed for Portuguese clients and interested firm representatives — was facilitated in English and Portuguese. Hourly rates continue to serve as the building blocks for all fee arrangements, which means accurate time recording is here to stay. In this session, we’ll explore ways law firms collaborate with their lawyers to improve time capture and understand how this effort underpins profitable service delivery models. Law firm leaders will share their views, and experts will demonstrate how modern technology can improve time recording. We’ll explore a number of profitability-related topics, including: Whether billable-hour targets offer an effective mechanism to measure lawyer performance How modern law firms help their lawyers reduce leakage and record more time How a shift in the complexity of client billing resulted in increased bill rejections and write-offs What impact this shift has had on profitability and client satisfaction, and how firms can address the challenge

The cloud offers significant advantages for Intapp customers. Don’t miss this session if you’re looking to migrate on-premises Intapp software, business processes. and data integrations to the cloud — or to better understand key steps your organization should be preparing today to smooth an eventual migration down the road.

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