Pennsylvania (PA) Law Practice Management CLE Course Catalog

Attorneys must wrangle endless amounts of resources during fact-specific litigation research, forcing them to piece together data across multiple websites and products. From finding the proper terminology to combing through a myriad of resources in disparate systems, the process can be time-consuming and inefficient. Using the correct technologies can help users minimize where they search for data and find the specific materials that address their case's topics, facts, and issues more quickly and precisely. This session will focus on empowering litigation professionals to feel confident in their research strategies and best practices for getting fast, intuitive, and actionable insights.

It is not always easy to figure out how to leverage emerging technologies like AI and machine learning. Join our legal experts to learn three practical ways corporate legal departments can start using AI to make an immediate impact.

As more and more clients continue to request for law firms to introduce new tools and technologies to improve legal services, law firms are being forced to really consider which tools are not only fitting to their organization but also a differentiator for existing and future clients. Join this session as our experts consider what clients are most commonly requesting, share insights into tools and technologies they introduced or created, and provide an overview of the issues and successes they’ve seen along the way.

In this program in the series, Zach McGee teaches the basics of financial statement analysis that will help you answer important questions such as: Is this company doing well or poorly? Is it overvalued or undervalued relative to the price set by the market?, etc. - to help you better understand and communicate with your MBA-trained or other finance-type clients.

Law firms on the cutting edge of combining internal law firm data with public datasets will describe their use cases and share their secrets for improving substantive work-product and developing new business. We’ll discuss how firms have married state and federal litigation dockets, patent and trademark prosecution dockets, new lawsuit feeds, and public and private data on deals (e.g., M&A) — all to build workflows for: (1) analytics and research (2) better RFPs, (3) experience databases, and (4) user-driven development.

In this session, we will discuss the importance of data growth and how data flows within organizations and what you can do to build good governance while protecting critical and valuable assets.

Monitoring metrics and analyzing data are important ways to ensure litigation support departments are operating as effectively as possible. Join us as we discuss the value of leveraging technology to monitor your team’s performance. Learn how to identify which metrics to track to better understand how your department is operating. Our panel will highlight practical ways to make process changes that will improve communication and outcomes within and across teams.

In order to build winning and lucrative litigation strategies with outcome-oriented analytics, attorneys need access to superior research solutions and accurate data. In this session, thought leaders will examine new developments and trends in legal analytics and how to find the information litigators need most—the money trail, case resolutions, and trustworthy data.

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.