Legal Resourcing for Optimal Utilization, Retention & Profit

Overview

Date: Tuesday, July 23, 2024

Time: 2:00 PM EST | 11 AM PST

Cost: Complimentary

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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): 

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. Expertise: Law firm resource management design and adoption Law firm resource optimization Law firm change management

Can’t attend? Register here for an on-demand recording after the webcast.