Buyers and sellers of legal services must navigate an increasingly complex economic landscape.  Industry executives grapple with unknowns, ranging from inflation and interest rates to elections and global conflicts. This panel assembles economic and industry experts to discuss how to identify and analyze economic signals that will impact the demand, purchasing power, and practice mix for legal services.  The goal of the discussion is to provide attendees with the insight, tools, and resources to proactively identify red flags so that their organizations can maneuver accordingly to stay ahead of the curve.

Maximizing return on investment (ROI) in the talent space requires more than just making the "right" hire; it demands a strategic approach to talent management, driven by data. Join us as we explore how law firms can leverage data analytics to enhance their talent acquisition and management strategies. Discover how data-driven insights can identify the best candidates, optimize lateral hiring processes, and align talent strategies with firm growth objectives. Learn from industry experts about the tools and methodologies that can transform the way you approach firm growth, reduce costly hiring mistakes, and ultimately, drive greater profitability and success for your firm. Additionally, gain insights on how to grow your influence within the firm by effectively utilizing data to support strategic decision-making. Don't miss this opportunity to unlock the full potential of your talent investments and elevate your role within your organization.

How do you build a high-performing team? And how do you know if you have a high-performing team? And once you’re there, how do you sustain it? In this 30-minute webinar, you will gain practical and actionable insights from leaders who have built and experienced high-performing teams in both law firm and consulting firm environments.

Embark with us on a journey into the future of legal work!  Lawyers are suffering from a "time and energy deficiency"...which can only be refunded through Al efficiencies and modern work design. The age of Copilots is here and is a new dimension of work, but how do law firms use this new dimension wisely?  Join us as we unveil practical solutions on how to leverage M365 and Copilot as a gateway to modern legal work.

Setting rates is one of the most complex tasks a law firm can undertake, but the last few years have added additional complexities. From skyrocketing inflation and record-high rates to the coming debate over how GenAI may impact billing, this session focuses on some of the major influences on rates and how they may be permanently changing.

Audiences will learn:

• What has happened to rates in the post-pandemic period.

• What is “real’ rate growth.

• The surprising complexities of billing for GenAI.

As the paradigm shifts in the professional services delivery model thanks to rapidly maturing technologies and the new approaches they enable, there are both opportunities and challenges for sellers and buyers in reframing how value is created and captured. The traditional “brute force” approach of manual labor-intensive processes is starting to erode as modern tools and capabilities utilized by an evolving leverage mix gain traction, prompting firms to revisit how they conceptualize pricing and generating profit. In a world where monetizing inputs one unit at a time can’t generate the financial results partners expect, how can firms shift focus to the value of the outcomes their services deliver, and equally challenging, articulate that value to clients? This session will touch on various aspects of the developments currently taking place in the provision of legal services, and provide some perspectives on the commercial implications for participants in the sector.

Hear from a diverse panel how cutting-edge companies and firms are adopting generative AI and the impact they foresee both internally and on those they partner with. We will discuss the practice of law, legal operations and organization-wide use cases from three different perspectives.

• Canadian Law Firm Chief Knowledge & Innovation Officer at Borden Ladner Gervais, Lisa Chamandy.

• Seattle-based Real Estate Website Director of Legal & Compliance Operations and Strategy at Zillow, Mark Allen.

• Australian-based Strategist and Professional Services Management Consultant at Barolsky Advisors, Joel Barolsky.

Please join Harbor and LVN members as we review the results of Harbor’s annual Law Firm Billing + Revenue Cycle Survey.   

Harbor will share its key findings, including year-over-year trends, across the market. You will gain insights into:  

New and evolving roles to support revenue cycle processes. Latest developments in staffing models and resourcing which have come to the forefront as law firm billing and collections practices come under scrutiny. Top priorities in reducing revenue leakage. Market intelligence on the strategies firms are employing – such as changes to billing processes and more effective management of outside counsel guidelines and proforma invoices.  

Technology enabling more efficient billing and collections. Updates on the tools that firms are deploying to drive improved automation and efficiency throughout the revenue cycle.

It is no surprise that many law firms’ strategic growth plans are focused on Private Equity and Venture Capital organizations. Their spend on average is $35 million on outside counsel for fund- and deal-related work each year. For a law firm, the question becomes how to discover more opportunities to advise clients. Digitizing fund formation services presents a big-ticket, high-value opportunity for law firms.

Join our webinar to learn more about:

• New areas of strategic growth

• Potential risks of investor onboarding

• How fund formation services can improve via technology

While self-service business intelligence solutions have become the norm in law firms, the actual user experience proves there is much to learn about how to effectively surface strategic insights to end users. A successful reporting platform must be accessible, flexible, standardized, personalized and real-time – all at once. Many law firms are a long way from achieving this perfect solution, but all hope is not lost. The most successful analytics platform will meet users at their door – that is to say, provide a robust self-service solution that is personalized, comprehensive, and easy to use. We will discuss the foundation of building a successful solution – while also filling in the gaps with bespoke reports that meet the diverse and divergent needs of any law firm.