Getting more value from your contracts: understanding contract lifecycle management 2021

  • Free to attend
  • Under consideration by the Law Societies of BC & ON

Contracts underpin all aspects of the legal ecosystem. And, in the wake of accelerated digital transformation, contract lifecycle management (CLM) has become a top priority for law firms and legal departments. CLM is a process that enables lawyers to create, review, store and analyze contracts efficiently. Robust CLM systems enable more value to be extracted from agreements; improve collaboration with other groups in organizations and allow for lawyers to better respond to an evolving market landscape.

On this 60 minute webinar, our speakers will survey the contract management landscape. They look at the types of CLM tools available to lawyers, their impact and value and review specific use cases where law firms, law departments and third party partners are implementing CLM strategies to help them deliver value to their clients and businesses.

  • Andrea Alliston, Partner, Knowledge Management, Stikeman Elliot
  • Joshua Kane, Vice President, Legal and General Counsel, STEP Energy Services
  • Scott Pickup, Corporate Counsel and Legal Operations Lead, Irving Shipbuilding
  • Steve Fullerton, Product Manager, Thomson Reuters

Chair: Zena Applebaum, National Director, Market Insights & Engagement, Thomson Reuters

Reimagining the shape, scope and trajectory of the new legal career 2021

  • Free to attend
  • Under consideration by the Law Societies of BC & ON

The shape, scope and the trajectory of the legal career is shifting. The impact on the nature of work due to the ongoing pandemic, a legal sector reckoning with structural pressures and a generational transfer of power underway all number as key drivers.

For many lawyers, no longer is making partner or the corporate board the primary yardstick of success. Other considerations such as embarking on alternative career paths, expanding a skillset beyond traditional lawyering and finding purpose in their work are equally as important. Lawyers are looking to their traditional employers – law firms and legal departments – to support and sustain these new career paths. And, they are looking beyond these same traditional employers to alternative legal sector service providers and other organizations to help them meet these aspirations.

On this 60 minute webinar, our speakers will discuss their own experiences on their own career paths. And, they will consider how to reimagine the legal career of the future.

Speakers:

  • Shannon O’Hearn, Vice-President & Chief Operating Officer, Legal & Regulatory Compliance, BMO Financial Group
  • Nickolas Tzoulas, Associate Investment Manager, Legal Counsel, Omni Bridgeway
  • Aaron Baer, Partner, Aird + Berlis
  • Sindy Peixoto, National Director, Talent Development, Borden Ladner Gervais

Chair: Monica Goyal, Director of Legal Innovation and Lawyer, Caravel Law

Mastering regulation and compliance: designing, implementing and delivering an effective strategy 2021

  • Free to attend
  • Under consideration by the Law Societies of BC & ON

Managing regulatory compliance requirements is a key pain point for many legal departments. Regulatory requirements can often be opaque, complex and changeable. To address these challenges, many legal departments are designing and implementing innovative solutions to help better manage the regulatory compliance process (and the inherent risks within them).

They are designing efficient and flexible internal processes. Putting in place policies and programs manage diverse stakeholders within organizations. And using technology to automate these processes and people’s interaction with them to help reduce risk and deliver better outcomes.

On this 60 minute webinar – our expert speakers from legal departments from organizations across Canada – will review best practices when it comes to designing, implementing and delivering an effective regulatory compliance strategy.

Speakers:

  • Scott Kerr, Director, Legal & Regulatory Compliance, BMO Financial Group
  • Jacqueline Sanz, Chief Compliance Officer
  • Paula Amy Hewitt, General Counsel, Field Trip Health
  • Robert Merrick, Principal, GRC Management Advisory Services

Chair: Gary Kalaci, CEO, Alexa Translations

Collaboration is the new innovation: the evolving role of the knowledge management in law firms and legal departments 2021

  • Free to attend
  • Under consideration by the Law Societies of BC & ON

For law firms and legal departments, having an effective knowledge management strategy and function in place to support it is key. At its core the legal sector is a content industry, underpinned by legal expertise. Successful operators within it must be able to organize, analyze and distribute the right information, at the right time, to the right place. With in person collaboration on hold for the foreseeable future, having a well defined knowledge management strategy in place, the right processes to deliver it and technology that enables both is critical. This 60 minute webinar – with knowledge management experts from both law firms and legal departments – will focus on how practitioners can design impactful knowledge management strategies, implement the right processes and choose the right technology to support them. On the webinar, our speakers will consider: – How can law firms and legal departments design a knowledge management strategy that meets their organization’s requirements? – What are the current challenges faced by KM practitioners and what are the solutions they’re implementing to solve for them? – What is the latest technology available to support the KM function and how is it helping law firms and legal departments gain an edge

Speakers:

  • Kristin Hodgins, Director of Legal Operations & Practice Innovation, Government of British Columbia
  • Kate Simpson, National Director of Knowledge Management, Bennett Jones
  • Simon Wormwell, Chief Knowledge & Innovation Officer, Osler
  • Alex G Smith, Global Legal Product Lead (RAVN), iManage

Chair: Jason Moyse, Director, Autologyx