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

Buying Legal Council: Webinar Series

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