California (CA) Law Practice Management CLE Course Catalog

Seamless collaboration between legal operations and their outside counsel partners is a critical factor in the success of any legal department. Hear from leaders and peers who have re-architected law firm relationships to achieve significant cost savings, better quality work, and stronger diversity. Get an inside look at their achieved results and lessons learned to uncover best practices and key missteps.

This dynamic session brings together experienced technology adopters to discuss frameworks for assessing today’s critical technology and what’s on the horizon.

In a moment of countless ideas and promises of generative AI, it can be difficult to sort out real impact from commercial fluff. Cutting through the morass, it’s clear that generative AI will have substantial effects across the EDRM, including the data that is created and ultimately how we understand and review it. Join Lighthouse and industry experts in a series of engaging conversations about how generative AI is impacting information governance, eDiscovery, and the future of the industry. Using current use cases, they will parse out strategies for utilizing and responding to this new technology, ensuring you’re getting the most from its potential.

Demands from clients are challenging law firms to stay competitive by introducing new tech tools that improve legal services offerings. At the same time, shrinking budgets are forcing law firms to consider which tools best serve their clients, themselves, and also generate the best return on investment.

The need for seamless collaboration, budget control, risk management, and client satisfaction has prompted the emergence of Legal Project Management (LPM) as a critical discipline for legal professionals. This session is designed to give participants valuable insights into the latest trends and best practices in LPM.

Law firms and corporate legal teams alike have tremendous amounts of data that contain valuable business insights. This session will focus on the importance of creating a data-first culture to enhance your team’s performance and ability to collect new data efficiently and effectively.

The advancement and proliferation of AI being embedded to power legal solutions present multiple opportunities and challenges for lawyers and clients alike. This session will focus on the impact of AI-powered legal technology, how it's tipping the balance of AI resistance, and its impact on litigation.

Amidst an intricate corporate landscape, legal departments are often perceived as cost centers, grappling with the dueling challenges of expected and unforeseen legal contingencies. Yet, the notion that these departments require an unchecked flow of financial resources is far from reality. Many leaders have proven that there are multiple ways to control costs. In this discussion, GCs will discuss the cost management techniques that have resulted in cost savings and/or cost predictability for their departments.

Law schools, law firms and other CLE programs teach you how to “Think Like A Lawyer,” but succeeding in a law firm environment also requires you to “Think Like A Client” so that your clients will like and respect you, and ideally, want to hire you again and again.  Having spent more than twenty-five years as a law firm litigator, an in-house lawyer and now as a client, Zach McGee offers law firm lawyers at every level sage advice on what you should be doing -- and what you should not be doing -- to put your best foot forward when working with your clients.