Legal Industry Thought Leader Series
Legal Spend Management - Is it for you?

We invite you to attend this informative and timely session on legal e-billing and matter management technology. Come hear industry experts expand on:

• Techniques for developing a solid business case to demonstrate the benefits this technology;
• Practical advantages to having data collected in a centralized and uniform manner; and
• Solutions for overcoming challenges to adopting this technology in a global business environment.

Law departments face tremendous pressure to improve efficiencies and reduce legal costs. Having a consistent perspective of yearly legal expenses on a real time basis is critical but nearly impossible with a manual system for data collection. Many of today’s businesses also have globally dispersed legal departments operating across multiple time zones with varying currencies and several different languages. It becomes nearly impossibly to collect critical data in one solution and more importantly, very challenging to manage the business side of law.

Innovative Solutions for Progressive Law Department Management
Many of the world’s leading corporations are turning to integrated legal e-billing and matter management solutions to help manage these complexities. These solutions provide effective management tools for filtering critical issues from daily tasks. The centralized platform allows organizations to improve efficiencies, control costs and aggregate performance data across the entire legal function, both internally and on outside counsel. This single integrated platform approach ensures that all case information, documents and invoices are collected in one solution thereby facilitating rapid access and data analysis. It also keeps internal and external teams synchronized, improving organisation, collaboration and clarity resulting in better outcomes.

Globalization beyond currency
Today’s law departments should expect their spend management solutions to deliver proven tools to support a truly global operation. Systems should be capable of accepting invoices in virtually any currency and allow users to act on those invoices in either the native or user preferred currency. Beyond currency, Taxes on legal services - Indirect taxes - are common in many parts of the world. Understanding how state-of-the-art solutions make it easier for legal and claims departments to track and analyse global legal spending is a complex undertaking that will be discussed in this session.

We invite you to attend this informative and timely session on legal e-billing and matter management technology, sponsored by CT TyMetrix, a Wolters Kluwer business and the world’s leading provider of e-billing and spend management technology with over 15,000 law firm and law department clients in 125 countries. Come and hear industry experts expand on:

• techniques for developing a solid business case to demonstrate the benefits this technology;
• practical advantages to having data collected in a centralized and uniform manner; and
• solutions for overcoming challenges to adopting this technology in a global business environment.

Guest speakers include:
Shahzad Bashir, Huron Consulting Group - Moderator
Julia Chain, The Kite Consultancy Limited
Neil Warriner, Herbert Smith (Law)