In a knowledge-based industry, Knowledge Management is the key to extracting the most value from a legal teams? assets.
After decades of false starts, law firms and corporate legal departments are making great strides in the implementation and adoption of Knowledge Management programs.
Efforts to acquire and retain clients in the shifting economic environment of the past half decade have fueled a drive toward improved efficiency.
Clients? requests for transparency have made the adoption of document and data sharing technologies imperative.
Increased security protocols have made these initiatives possible.
Live Webcast: June 6, 2013 at 1:00 PM
Sponsored by: Nuance Communications, Inc.
Organizations have many options for managing e-discovery. On one end of the spectrum, there is a do-it-yourself approach, with software and staff in-house to manage the entire process. On the other end, companies and law firms can outsource e-discovery to trusted third parties. In between these two is a SaaS approach mixing in-house and outsourced resources as appropriate for particular matters.
This webcast is designed to provide corporate and law firm teams with guidance on selecting the best deployment option for their particular legal, technical and organizational factors. The key considerations for each deployment model will be discussed by several industry thought leaders.
Live Webcast: June 5, 2013 at 1:00 PM
Sponsored by: FTI Consulting, Inc.
The power to find information is an absolute requirement in a world where not only 89 million business emails are sent every day but, previously created content has locked up valuable expertise. Law firms with nationwide offices must be in control of their work product and make decisions based on vast amounts of information created and stored in disconnected information environments. This creates the problem of 'findability' for end users who will be wishing for a simple user search interface that helps quickly and easily find the information they need regardless of its location. In many ways enterprise search should be the backbone of a proper information technology deployment, by not only solving the 'findability' of content but as well by using search to build rich information applications.
Live Webcast: June 4, 2013 at 1:00 PM
Sponsored by: Recommind Inc.
This event will demystify the Cloud and cover common misperceptions relating to security, reliability, and the impact of the rules of professional conduct. In addition, you will gain critical insights and best practices to consider when choosing a Cloud provider.
Plus, you will learn about four key advantages the Cloud delivers, and how it will positively impact your firm including:
- Case Visibility: Gain the ability to follow case developments in real-time from intake to resolution using the latest in social network concepts.
- Mobility: Expand your reachand get instant access to critical case information and files from any location at any time.
- Collaboration: Elevate communication with easy-to-use tools so you are better able to capture and share knowledge.
- File Sharing: Create secure portals allowing you to share files, review documents and deliver confidential communications so you are able to confidently settle cases and close deals.
Live Webcast: May 9, 2013 at 2:00 PM
Sponsored by: Wolters Kluwer
Through every stage of litigation, from planning to execution and monitoring, employing the right tactics can improve workflow efficiency and ensure you accomplish your clients' objectives on time and on budget:
- Utilizing advanced technologies like predictive coding to boost productivity
- Working with Outside Counsel to implement effective processes that emphasize transparency and defensibility
- Knowing when and how to allocate work and assign comparative benefits of insourcing and outsourcing
Live Webcast: May 6, 2013 at 1:00 PM
Content Provided by: New York Law Journal
Sponsored by: PANGEA3
Last year was an uneven one for many firms—several had a rough start to the year, but a strong fourth quarter. Which firms prospered in such a challenging environment and which firms struggled? ??Join Robin Sparkman, the editor-in-chief of The American Lawyer, for our annual Am Law 100 webcast. She'll review the results, discuss the trends, and offer a preview of the stories in the May issue.
Please join us for a lively 20-minute review of what happened and why, and a brief look ahead at some of the challenges for firms in 2013. ??Plus, it's free—brought to you by our sponsors at DiscoverReady.
Live Webcast: April 26, 2013 at 12:00 PM
Content Provided by: The American Lawyer
Sponsored by: Discover Ready
The likelihood that doing business in China will lead to litigation in U.S. courts has never been greater. The U.S. government's stepped up enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act has already been strongly felt among multinationals operating in China. Pfizer, Morgan Stanley, and IBM are just a few of the global corporations that have paid multi-million-dollar fines for improper gifts or transactions with Chinese government officials. But in a country where the state still dominates much of the economy, just who constitutes a government official is the first of many stick questions arising from enforcement of the U.S. anti-bribery law. As they do more business in the U.S., Chinese companies will also face greater FCPA scrutiny, but that's not all. Anti-dumping claims targeting Chinese exporters continue to mount and antitrust suits are a growing risk as well. And then there's the panoply of consumer suits that await; China's well-known difficulties with the production of certain shoddy and unsafe goods already have an army of U.S. plaintiff's lawyers preparing product liability and other tort suits targeting Chinese companies.
Live Webcast: April 26, 2013 at 11:00 AM
Content Provided by: US-China Legal Summit
For decades, the U.S. lawyers and firms have played a major role in guiding the opening of the Chinese economy and helping along the development of laws and the legal profession in China. Now China can boast a number of very large law firms, many of which have started recruiting U.S. lawyers themselves. In areas like inbound foreign investment, where international firms once dominated, big Chinese firms are now the leading players. But questions still occasionally arise about the reliability, professionalism and accountability of Chinese lawyers. What are major issues that still confront the Chinese legal profession? How are they seen by in-house counsel at multinationals? As some of the bigger Chinese firms start venturing abroad, will they start challenging U.S. firms on their home turf?
Live Webcast: April 26, 2013 at 11:00 AM
Content Provided by: US-China Legal Summit
For decades, China has been a major destination for multinationals and others hoping to tap the world’s largest emerging market. Now the shoe’s on the other foot too, with Chinese companies eager to invest overseas themselves, with their eyes on resource and technological assets very often held in the U.S. In certain sectors, this means a high-level national security review, and the biggest deals will also find additional media and political scrutiny, as CNOOC found when it tried to buy Unocal and as Huawei continues to find. CNOOC has so far had better luck with its latest big acquisition attempt abroad, that of Nexen Inc, a Canadian oil company with large U.S. operations. But what are the fears and how have they changed over the years? Is there really anything a Chinese company can do to better its odds or is it just down to the political winds? We will hear directly from a law firm partner who has been involved in several significant outbound transactions including the CNOOC/Nexen deal. Back in China, multinationals also face a bevy of often new regulatory and political hurdles in trying to expand via acquisition in that market, with outcomes often unpredictable. Many of these come courtesy the Chinese government, at central, provincial, or even the municipal level. But the U.S. government also increasingly scrutinizes transactions undertaken by multinationals abroad. What are the stickiest regulatory issues now confronting foreign companies trying to do M&A deals in China? And what seem to be the best ways to deal with them? The head of Asia Pacific M&A compliance for one of the world’s largest and most iconic corporations explains how they do it.
Live Webcast: April 26, 2013 at 11:00 AM
Content Provided by: US-China Legal Summit
The uncertain global economy has played a big role in the capital markets slowdown in Asia in 2012, with markets fearful of the consequences of the ongoing Eurozone crisis, the softening of the Chinese economy, and leadership changes in China. Will 2013 be better? In addition to larger economic uncertainties, there have been structural problems behind the Asia capital markets downturn. In both the U.S. and Hong Kong, worries about the quality of Chinese companies’ disclosures have drawn the attention of regulators. How do approaches to securities regulation differ among the U.S., Hong Kong, and China, and are regulators striking the right balance between maintaining confidence in the market and making their exchanges attractive places to list? In America, plaintiffs’ lawyers are getting in on the action, targeting Chinese issuers with securities fraud suits. What impact will the growing litigation threat have on the markets?
Live Webcast: April 26, 2013 at 11:00 AM
Content Provided by: US-China Legal Summit
China's reputation as a haven for pirated and counterfeit goods has persisted for good reason. There is still too little protection for intellectual property in the country; three times as much pirated software is sold in China as the real thing and fake goods from watches to first-growth wines are everywhere. There is widespread recognition that periodic raids and crackdowns are not effective; what are some IP strategies that have worked for multinationals in China? Can litigating IP issues in Chinese courts be effective? Or have cases in which multinationals have been targeted by local competitors poisoned that well? While many Chinese companies continue to take a casual attitude towards IP, many others have begun to take the issue very seriously too, recognizing that they are also hurt by an environment of widespread infringement of IP rights. For some that operate in the global marketplace, defending IP litigation in U.S. courts is about to become as routine as it now is for the electronics giants of Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. They’re not just on defense though; many Chinese companies have found U.S. IP litigation an effective tool to deploy against their Chinese competitors.
Live Webcast: April 26, 2013 at 11:00 AM
Content Provided by: US-China Legal Summit
Litigation is costly, unpredictable, and inefficient. In this webinar, learn how to counter the challenges of litigation with predictive analytics tools rooted in decision tree templates. Attendees will gain a better understanding of how to:
- Maximize the efficiency of the dispute management process and the involvement of outside counsel
- Better quantify, predict, and control litigation exposures and costs
- More effectively communicate case risk and strategy to senior management
Join Marc Victor, Esq., the president of Litigation Risk Analysis, Inc. and the nationally recognized leader in applying decision tree analysis to litigation, and Bennetta Trahan, VP of Business Intelligence Solutions at Datacert, to learn how these tools can give you the winner’s edge by enabling informed case strategy decisions about where to spend or whether to settle. See how to bring the benefits of decision tree analysis to your everyday caseload — quickly and easily.
Live Webcast: April 25, 2013 at 1:00 PM
Content Provided by: Datacert
Sponsored by: Datacert
As the Irish economy enters its third consecutive year of growth, the critical importance of international investment, and in particular US foreign direct investment, in driving the Irish economy is clearer than ever. To that extent, the Irish Government continues to remain focused, as it has been to date, on developing and introducing measures and initiatives designed to enhance Ireland’s attractiveness as a place to do business for multinational companies.
One such measure includes the proposed reform of Irish company law envisaged by the new Irish Companies Bill (the “Bill”) published by the Irish Government in December 2012. The Bill, when enacted into Irish law, will consolidate, reform and simplify existing Irish company law. This publication marks a significant development in the strategic reform of Irish company law and represents a strong desire on Ireland's part to ensure we have a modern Bill.
We will discuss how these changes may affect your Irish operations and will address some of the preparatory steps and issues that you should be taking and/or considering in advance of enactment. We will place a particular emphasis on issues we have discussed previously with many of our multinational clients, which have in the past had a critical bearing on the feasibility of various strategies or restructurings that have been undertaken by such clients, and we will discuss how these issues have been addressed in the Bill.
Live Webcast: April 23, 2013 at 1:00 PM
Sponsored by: Matheson
Please join us on Monday, April 15th as the New York Law Journal and Pangea3 present “New Normal: Big Data and the Future of Litigation.” Our distinguished panel will discuss emerging ways to manage massive data sets using predictive coding and other technologies, limitations in the current technology and whether recent court decisions will require a paradigm shift in the use of these methodologies. Further, we will explore ways that attorneys may defend their search parameters during discovery and how companies can comply with new collection and preservation standards in their day-to-day operations.
In this webinar, you will learn:
- Best practices for managing big data sets in keeping with new compliance regulations and case precedent
- Ways that attorneys and IT staff can work together to use new technologies to be best prepared for litigation
- How litigators can defend their use of technology from discovery through appeals
Live Webcast: April 15, 2013 at 1:00 PM
Sponsored by: Pangea3
Growing U.S. companies are finding Canada’s new foreign asset investment trusts (FAITs) to be the ideal solution to capital raising and cash-flow challenges. Easier, faster and less expensive than a traditional IPO, FAITs can work for almost any mid-sized American company with income-generating assets because their structure integrates well with U.S. business and tax regimes and their tax-free yields are exceptionally attractive to Canadian and international investors. While initially used in the real estate and energy industries, FAITs are quickly becoming popular in other sectors and have begun to take the market by storm.
In this webinar, senior lawyers and accountants who have advised on some of the most significant FAIT transactions will be covering: i) the selection of appropriate candidates for FAITs; ii) structuring considerations; iii) tax considerations; and iv) case studies of recent representative deals.
Live Webcast: April 9, 2013 at 1:00 PM
Content Provided by: Cassels Brock
Sponsored by: Cassels Brock
The precision and care required to draft transactional documents can conflict with the time and billing pressures of today's legal market. The risks for transactional lawyers intensify when you couple those pressures with the increased complexities of mobility and the varying devices used to edit or exchange documents. In this webinar, lawyer and legal technology expert Robert Blacksberg and ALM market expert Lynn Frances explore today's workflow trends, the associated risks as well as practices and technology solutions to protect against these risks including:
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How to inject technology into your workflows to accommodate alternative fee structures while improving document quality.
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ALM Legal Intelligence Survey data on the effectiveness of collaboration between the law firm and law department.
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Procedures for improving the stability of documents as they are distributed among multiple contributors and accessed on various devices.
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Technology solutions that ensure clarity and consistency across a document or set of documents
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Advanced workflows to safeguard proprietary or privileged information that is shared with clients and confidants.
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The efficacy of eyes-only review for transactional document proofreading.
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Best practices for reducing the risk of a lawyer screaming “You let what go out?”
This webinar will qualify for CLE in California, Illinois, and New York.
Live Webcast: September 20, 2012 at 12:00 AM
Sponsored by: 
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