Legal Project Management 2024 | Practising Law Institute (PLI) | 7 February 2024 | PLI New York and Online, 1177 6th Ave, New York, NY 10036, USA and Online

This event continues to be a key way that legal organizations are changing their business model and increasing efficiency and effectiveness. This year’s program will have two distinct parts. The morning will cover the what’s and how-to’s of implementing legal project management at a matter level. The afternoon will address how to implement legal project management across your organization to improve service delivery, teamwork and value for legal spend. This program will offer insights and approaches for legal project management that can be implemented immediately. Private practice lawyers – from solo practitioners to those working at the largest firms – as well as in-house teams and legal professionals who assist them will benefit from this one-day program.

What You Will Learn:

After completing this program, participants will be able to:

• Understand what legal project management is
• Implement tools for using legal project management on your matters
• Recognize how legal project management approaches and disciplines apply to all types of practices and all sizes of matters – ranging from litigation to counseling to transactional practice
• Recount success stories in legal project management at leading law firms and legal departments
• Meet changing client expectations for efficiency and innovation/working with legal operations professionals
• Understand the impact of generative AI on legal project management

Who Should Attend:
Private practice lawyers – from solo practitioners to those working at the largest firms – as well as in-house teams and legal professionals who assist them will benefit from this one-day program.

2024 Speakers

CHAIRS:

Susan Raridon Lambreth
Principal, LawVision LLC

Lonette K. Merriman
Vice President, Associate General Counsel, Constellation Brands, Inc.

SPEAKERS:

Amanda C. Chaboryk
Head of Legal Data and Systems, PwC

Janine Dixon
Legal Operations Manager, Spend Optimization, Meta

Kyle Dreyer
Program Coordinator, Baylor Law Executive LL.M. in Litigation Management

Maeve Flanagan
Senior Staff Attorney, Con Edison

Bill Garcia
Chief Practice Innovation Officer, Thompson Hine LLP

Tanya Hampton
Senior Legal Project Manager, Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Shilpa Patel
Senior Legal Project Manager, Foley Hoag LLP

Damien Riehl
VP, Solutions Champion, vLex

Nathaniel Robinson
Senior Director of Client Value, Goulston & Storrs PC

Elisabeth Schroeder
Director of Legal Project Management, Barnes & Thornberg LLP

Steven Smith
Director, Matter Management Services, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP