Webcast
Legal Resourcing for Optimal Utilization, Retention & Profit
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Law firms struggle to retain and utilize lawyers effectively due to a lack of visibility into team skills, experience, interests, and development areas. Increased lateral hiring has highlighted the need for better talent management, as associate attrition significantly impacts profit, along with billing write-offs from inefficient resourcing.
Clients have become more business-savvy in acquiring legal services, making efficient work allocation crucial. Improved resource management processes can drive internal efficiency and provide clients with insights for more profitable, long-term engagements. With varying demand across practice areas, firms need to intelligently reallocate skills and experience.
Attend this webcast to learn how to address these challenges and enhance your firm's operations and profitability through efficiency and better utilization of talent. Key topics addressed will include:
- Efficient Work Allocation: Strategies for fair and strategic distribution of legal work;
- Real-Time Resource Visibility: Insights into team capacity and availability;
- Skill Showcasing: Promotion of lawyers' skills and career development;
- Support for DEI Goals: Facilitation of equitable work allocation and diversity;
- Profitability: Understanding how to resource matters more profitably
Speaker(s):
 | Michelle Battley | Global Head of Legal Resource Management | Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Michelle Battley is an experienced lawyer who has spent the last several years working in legal management and operations. She spent a number of years as a disputes lawyer at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer from 2001, before roles in law firms in Asia-Pacific and as an in-house lawyer. She returned to Freshfields in 2017, creating innovative change by introducing more efficient workflows to their resource management and work allocation processes. Michelle continues to adopt best practices and push the firm's matter resourcing to the next level by using best-in-class technology to support better lawyer utilization, provide career enhancing work, and create a more equitable environment. |
 | Dave Cook | Global Director of Resource Management | BigHand Dave joined BigHand in 2020, following the acquisition of Mason & Cook, in which Dave was the founder & CEO. Dave pioneered the adoption of resource management within the legal industry, introducing the first structure within a magic circle law firm back in 2012. Since then, Dave has driven the expansion of resource management globally, supporting the worlds leading law firms in adopting best practice resource management structures and cutting-edge technology. Dave leads the strategic direction of the resource management team at BigHand, including the development of new products and the global expansion of the firms' award-winning services. |
 | Monika Crawford | Head of Practice Management, US Dispute Resolution | Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Monika Crawford is the Head of Practice Management for US Dispute Resolution at Freshfields, where she supports practice group leadership with strategic planning, talent development, knowledge management, and day-to-day operations. She draws on 13 years of litigation experience, including her early career years as an associate at an Am Law 10 firm. Before transitioning to practice management at Freshfields, she specialized in labor and employment law, advising a large government agency on a variety of workforce issues. |
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