Buying Legal Council upcoming events

Managing Spend & Vendors: FIS’s “Spend Smarter, Not Harder” Playbook (27 May 2026)

Wed, 27 May 2026 16:30:00 GMT

FIS manages a significant legal spend across a large network of law firms and over time, their team has taken a structured, data-driven approach to gaining control over that spend.

In this session, Santoria Washington (Legal Operations, FIS) will share how her team is improving visibility, enforcing vendor discipline, and using technology to drive more predictable outcomes across their legal spend.

You’ll hear practical insights on how to:

Enforce billing guidelines to reduce non-compliant spend
Use AI to streamline invoice review at scale
Improve budget control and forecast accuracy
Make more informed decisions on vendors and matters

Speakers:

Santoria Washington, Legal Ops Manager, FIS,
Anna Richards, Head of Community, Brightflag
Cecelia Cornett, Customer Success Manager, Brightflag

Introducing the OCM Maturity Model: A Framework for Evaluating and Improving Outside Counsel Management (10 Jun 2026)

Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:00:00 GMT

Buying Legal Council: Webinar Series

Introducing the OCM Maturity Model: A Framework for Evaluating and Improving Outside Counsel Management

June 10th at11am ET

Most legal departments manage outside counsel through instinct and habit rather than a structured, repeatable framework, making it difficult to know where you stand, what's missing, and where to invest next. In this session, Maui Gevero, Director of Legal Advisory at PERSUIT, introduces the Outside Counsel Management (OCM) Maturity Model: a practical tool for assessing your program across five key pillars, benchmarking against peers, and building a clear path to improvement.Drawing on data from 85 legal departments, we'll walk through the model's four maturity levels, share what the benchmarks reveal about where most legal teams fall today, and explain how the Maturity Model connects to a seven-step operating model for OCM excellence.You'll leave with:

A shared vocabulary for describing and discussing OCM maturity
Industry context on where most legal departments stand today
A practical four-step approach (Assess, Identify Gaps, Build Roadmap, Iterate) to begin applying the framework to your own program

This is Session 1 of a three-part series. Session 2 will feature a client sharing their firsthand experience with the assessment, followed by a hands-on workshop at the Buying Legal Conference where you'll complete your own self-assessment and leave with a draft roadmap.

Speaker: Maui Gevero, Director, Legal Advisory, PERSUIT

Webinar hosted by Morae (24 Jun 2026)

Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:00:00 GMT

Details and registration coming soon.

Webinar hosted by PERSUIT (12 Aug 2026)

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:00:00 GMT

Details and registration coming soon.

NYC Buying Legal Conference (29 Sep 2026)

Tue, 29 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMT

PLEASE NOTE: In-house tickets are only for corporate legal (legal department, procurement, or legal ops) attendees. Those who work for an organization that sells legal technology or legal services must buy a vendor ticket. Purchases of in-house tickets buy vendor-side attendees will be cancelled.

Webinar hosted by LexisNexis (21 Oct 2026)

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMT

Details and registration coming soon.

EMEA Buying Legal Conference (17 Nov 2026)

Tue, 17 Nov 2026 05:00:00 GMT

Webinar hosted by Morae (2 Dec 2026)

Wed, 02 Dec 2026 16:00:00 GMT

Details and registration coming soon.