California (CA) Law Practice Management CLE Course Catalog

As an in-house lawyer, you may be expected to manage litigation involving your company, but if you lack experience in this area, what can you do to ensure that you manage your litigation matters and outside counsel most effectively and efficiently? In this program, experienced law firm litigator Andrew Struve gives you the advice you need to identify the key issues, ask the right questions and make the best decisions when managing your next litigation.

As hybrid has become the new normal for the present workforce, learning how to work effectively as a more geographically dispersed team is very relevant. Engaging your team can be extremely difficult through video calls, but it must be done in order to maintain your legal department culture in this environment. Join as expert panelists navigate the reality of a hybrid workforce and how to best manage and engage teams. Leave this session with an understanding of what accountability and flexibility looks like in the future of work, and what needs to change in order to accomplish your goals.

A bifurcated fee arrangement involves splitting the consumer chapter 7 engagement into pre-petition and post-petition fee arrangements that require little or no money down for the work required to finish the case. In several jurisdictions across the nation, however, bifurcated fee arrangements in chapter 7 cases are being challenged. This panel will review the complex issues related to these fee arrangements.

Mention “artificial intelligence,” and most people start rolling their eyes and making jokes about Skynet. But today’s A.I. is changing the way that many law firms operate. Rather than replacing lawyers, A.I. is taking over more and more of the grunt work that prevents lawyers from doing the higher-level work that is necessary for their practices — by streamlining case searches, brief-writing and a whole host of tasks you might not even have considered.

Norton Rose Fulbright’s David Kessler, Anna Rudawski and Sam Sessler work together guiding clients through the investigation, containment, and remediation of some of the world’s most high-profile cybersecurity incident response matters. Join us as they discuss legal considerations and data and reporting challenges, while also sharing practical strategies, tools and workflows for practicing effectively in this complex area.

Legal professionals face an unprecedented volume, variety, velocity, and complexity of data. Legal AI, such as data visualization, active learning, sentiment analysis, and AI models offer tools to address these challenges - but work best in experienced and creative hands. Learn how savvy law firms are implementing innovative AI-based solutions to future-proof their practices, uncover new opportunities for revenue, and increase profitability. In this session, some of the most successful and innovative eDiscovery practice leaders discuss how with Legal AI in discovery they drive adoption, improve client results, and increase revenue.

Corporate legal teams with escalating workloads and competing business demands are increasingly looking to technology to help solve their problems. From document and e-billing to digital contracting, legaltech can help teams become more strategic and productive -- doing more with less and improving their efficiency and effectiveness across the company.

Given the sheer amount of discoverable data that's out there, the ability to distinguish actual from pseudo privileged information is nearly impossible without the application of "smart" auto-extraction & sifting tools. With communication channels and data sources constantly evolving, is the tedious approach keyword search approach to privilege review still the right option? It does get the job done but with the power of data science & automation at your disposal, why not save time and money?

Technology-assisted review has come a long way since its early introduction as predictive coding. While each version has its merits and place, it is important to understand that in order to select the right approach for your discovery needs, one must truly understand the underlying process and variables such as time and cost. However, has the time come for TAR 3.0 and what does that look like for discovery professionals?