Over the past decade, many large law firms have invested in teams specifically focused on innovation. The goal of these teams is arguably to introduce new tools, services, and processes to better serve clients and help the firm remain a strong market player, particularly in the face of “disruptive” business models evolving in the market.  Yet despite these investments, only 36% of legal department operations respondents to a 2020 Blickstein Group survey said they consider their law firms innovative and 90% said they would appreciate law firms approaching them more frequently with new legal service delivery models.

Join us as we discuss innovations in technology and business models that are the most exciting to consumers of legal services and hear our panelists’ perspectives on the most urgent areas of innovation for legal service providers to focus on in the coming years.

Intrapreneurs, as defined, are internal employees who use entrepreneurial skills and thinking to seek out initiatives that could benefit the organization financially. Members of the LVN community often function as intrapreneurs as we routinely engage in activities that require the skillsets and disciplines of an entrepreneur within our respective organizational environments.  Join us as we discuss the intrapreneur mindset and hear from our panelists who can provide unique examples of intrapreneurship at work within the law firm and legal departments.

You have heard the term “set it and forget it,” but the opposite cannot be more true for the legal pricing community. Pricing a legal matter is rarely a “point-in-time effort” that is over by developing an initial budget. Rather, it’s an ongoing, cooperative process between clients, law firms, and business partners to continue pricing a matter as the scope of work evolves. In a recent survey conducted by the Legal Value Network and the Blickstein Group, it was found that there appears to be a “clear intersection for firms and clients around managing budgets and managing demand,” but generally both sides “agree that communication is poor.” What arises from these two points is an opportunity for collaborative progress.

When a complex matter arises, how can legal departments, law firms, and business partners effectively develop (and maintain) a matter’s budget even when significant uncertainty exists? And where do clients perceive the most value from these conversations?

Join us as our diverse panel of speakers walk through real-world pricing discussions and provide tactics to help you better partner with your counterparts by building better budgets.

Data is at the heart of the modern economy and its evangelists claim it can solve nearly every business problem going. But lying behind all data is a messy reality, full of ambiguous situations and open to a huge amount of interpretation and judgment.

One of the most crucial parts of understanding how to use any data more effectively is understanding its limitations. Only by appreciating its provenance, structure, and meaning can we understand when and how best to deploy it.

Data is also a powerful tool for telling a story and can be shared in a more visual way to reach more people.

Our panelists will highlight the good, the bad, and the messy when it comes to data and how they have learned to harness its power into compelling and comprehensible outputs.

TBA

Throughout the session, this group of dynamic speakers will cover, at a high level, the negotiation tactics outlined in “Never Split the difference: Negotiating as if your life depended on it” – a bestselling book authored by negotiation expert and former FBI hostage negotiator Chris Voss.

It’s difficult to overstate the importance of defining a matter’s scope and clearly assigning tasks before any legal work commences. This diverse panel discusses effective scoping and communication skills to assist in removing any friction that might exist in scoping conversations.

In a legal market crowded with promises of innovation, where do clients perceive the most value—versus disillusionment from over-hyped offerings and under-delivered value?

Join members of LVN’s Education Committee as they provide a glimpse into what you can expect for your professional development by way of LVN webinar educational programming for 2021.Hear the vision for programming and understand the roadmap for each of our three tracks: Pricing & LPM, Beyond The Technical, and Innovation.

In this webinar, Rich will dive into the core elements of emotional intelligence and how you can leverage them for personal and professional happiness. He will provide suggestions on how to use your EQ to help you succeed and grow every day, especially in the face of constant change.