Missouri (MO) In House Counsel CLE Course Catalog

Join us for ALM’s open-to-all legendary Judicial Keynote Session as the panel discusses the cases that made (or missed) the ALM headlines in 2019-2020. Caselaw discussions will focus on the ever changing landscape of data and biometric privacy, privilege disputes, spoliation, recent news in iPhone forensics and social media discovery in litigation.

This session will use case studies to illustrate how various analytics can identify patterns in data, uncover hidden relationships between people and events, translate coded language, and organize disparate information into logical groups and concepts—helping investigators find the signal in the noise.

In this session, we will explore the proliferation of automated workflow tools in patent drafting & prosecution. Case studies will detail how patent lawyers are successfully leveraging these tools, as well as some of the limitations and hype surrounding automation. We will also examine the downward economics of depleting patent law practices, and how automation can be utilized to revamp workflow & revenues.

Leaders of law firms and law departments alike often lament their inability to get buy-in from partners and staff on anything from new technologies and processes to new business structures. Their jobs are as much psychologists as lawyers. We walk through two case studies, from a law firm and a law department, to highlight what successful change management looks like in action.

The collection and analysis of data by law firms and clients is nothing new, but there is still a big disconnect in what clients want from data and what law firms are doing with it. That means a big opportunity for firms.

Much is said about how much, or how little, impact alternative legal services providers will have on traditional providers and the market share for legal services. How much of a threat do they pose to law firms? What clients are hiring them and what is their strategy?

For 40 years, The American Lawyer, its affiliate publications and ALM Intelligence’s Legal Compass have been collecting data on law firms, clients and providers. What does the data tell us about where the industry is headed? We will take a deep dive into our data and others’ to assess the state of the industry and its future.

Join us as we bring some of the brightest legal experts and tech gurus together for a discussion on eDiscovery trends of the new decade.

In this session, learn the meaningful insights you can use to optimize the selection of outside counsel, enforce the terms of engagement, and control costs.