Legal Ops + Procurement = Better Rates, Better Budgeting, Better Compliance

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Buying Legal Council Webinar Series

Legal Ops + Procurement = Better Rates, Better Budgeting, Better Compliance

Wednesday, September 13 at 11am ET

with Industry Experts:

Andie Lam, Novartis

Director, Global Category Manager – Legal Procurement

Nathan Cemenska, Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions

Director, Legal Operations & Industry Insights

The last decade has seen greatly improved law department operations and cost-control capabilities, yet few doubt this is just the beginning.

• Data from the Wolters Kluwer LegalVIEW Data Warehouse – the world’s leading source of performance benchmarking for corporate law departments – suggests that many law departments haven’t leveraged the volume of work in their portfolios to negotiate for better rates.
• At the same time, industry observers and practitioners alike agree that legal matters often go unscoped and unbudgeted – or are scoped and budgeted only in a perfunctory way that renders these efforts at least partially toothless.
• Complicating things still further, outside counsel guidelines and other departmental efforts like panels are often ignored by the same people who created them, robbing departments of significant savings that could have been put towards better people, processes and technology.

The above can be seen as reasons for despair, but are better seen as opportunities for improvement.

In this session, join industry experts Andie Lam (procurement Director at Novartis, and BLC board member) and Nathan Cemenska (Director, Legal Operations and Industry Insights at Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions) for an in-depth discussion of nuts-and-bolts ways that legal ops and procurement can work together to transform rate management, budget management, and law department policy compliance from “meh” to “yeah!”