Nine Best Practices for Managing Outside Counsel

Outside counsel share a common goal with their in-house counterparts: to effectively manage matters and achieve successful outcomes. At the same time, each faces unique pressures: outside counsel are out to run a profitable business, while in-house counsel is acutely concerned with cost reduction.

CT TyMetrix and InsideCounsel magazine are presenting a free webinar on Thursday, September 10 to highlight nine best practices to achieve strategic, cost-effective utilization of outside counsel, while increasing valuable internal competencies. Learn how you can get a handle on the corporate law department’s highest cost areas — maintaining litigation budgets, improving matter management, and controlling e-discovery costs.

There is no charge to register.

Webinar: Predictive Modeling in Litigation Management

For more than a decade, insurance companies have been leveraging technology to better manage their claims and the costs associated with litigation, including (by the early 90s) e-billing, which streamlined processes and automated enforcement of guidelines. This evolved (by the late 90s) into collaborative, web-based systems handling case management, and later into today's systems offering reporting tools to better understand law firm performance and other trends in litigation.

The missing piece has been advanced analytics to optimize this wealth of information into streamlined business processes and guided decision-making. Moving forward, predictive modeling will play a greater role in litigation management, promising significant improvements in process and total claim outcomes.

CT TyMetrix, in partnership with Deloitte and Claims/TechDecisions magazines, will present a webinar on this topic on June 16 at 2:00 p.m. ET. Our discussion of The Future of Predictive Modeling in Litigation Management will discuss the impact of system-aided guidance in matters including:

• Selecting the most appropriate defense law firm based on case details
• Providing guidance on resolution strategies given the carrier's and industry data
• Early automated identification of case severity

To learn more about this webinar or to register, visit www.claimsmag.com/cttymetrix.

CT TyMetrix to present ILTA product briefing webinar

CT TyMetrix is participating in the ongoing product briefing webinar series organized by the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA). We will present on Law Department Tools 2.0, or in other words, discuss how the next generation of law department tools can manage cases, reduce legal spend and accurately forecast the future, all of which are critical for attorneys operating in today's challenging business environment. This practical demonstration for ILTA members will show how your legal team can accomplish these goals with CT TyMetrix 360°, a comprehensive legal spend management solution incorporating legal e-billing, matter management and dynamic reporting functionality.

Webinar on Alternative Fee Arrangements

As pressures to manage legal costs mount, there's a renewed interest in alternative fee arrangements (AFAs) as a way to align the value delivered by an outside law firm with the amount billed for services (as Craig Raeburn discussed in his post on this blog about AFAs and how CT TyMetrix 360° supports alternative fee arrangements with the AFA module).

In our webinar, we discussed considerations to address when creating AFAs, and how a law department's e-billing system can support and enforce these arrangements. The webinar is available as an archived recording if you missed the live event or would like to review the topics we covered:
CT TyMetrix Alternative Fee Arrangement Webinar Archive

The presenters:

• Keith Brown (Consultant, Law Department Service Line, Baker Robbins and Company)
• Craig Raeburn (Vice President of Product Development, CT TyMetrix)
• Jennifer Pearce (Manager of Legal Operations and Records Management, International Paper)

Webinar recording now available!

If you missed our live webinar in December, we have now posted a recorded version of "How law departments can simplify their e-discovery: from matter to production."

Join us for a webinar Dec 11 at 1pm ET

If you are a corporate legal professional responsible for managing e-discovery in your law department, a free webinar this week centers around corporate electronic discovery.

How Law Departments can Simplify their eDiscovery: From Matter to Production
Adhering to the eDiscovery Rules of Civil Procedure is a daunting task. As the amount of stored data continues to increase, a simplified process for identifying the right electronically stored information (ESI) and getting that data to the right people in a format they can use becomes critical. One of the biggest problems is there is no single solution that addresses the legal workflow from the Matter through the Production phase.

During this webinar, we will discuss tangible options for forward-thinking corporate legal departments to efficiently manage the discovery process involving ESI. By establishing efficient procedures relating to the management of ESI you can mitigate possible sanctions that can now be imposed through the new Fed Rules of Civil Procedure.

Thursday, December 11 - 1:00 p.m. ET

This one-hour webinar is presented by CT TyMetrix, CT Summation and Kazeon.

Register here.