Overview (Program Summary)
A program hosted by:
ACC AustraliaACC Australia and LOD are delighted to bring you our annual Legal Operations & Technology Masterclasses.
As our usual paid ½ day face-to-face sessions cannot take place, we’re offering a unique chance to obtain all of this content for free.
Masterclass @ Home offers the same Masterclass content in 5 bite-sized sessions of 45 minutes each. You can attend all sessions or choose specific topics of interest.
Sessions will be streamed live, allowing interactive participation from wherever you are located.
Join one or join all, the choice is yours, choosing from the below Legal Ops & Tech Topics. All sessions run from 10:30am-11.15am AEST:
Session 1: Legal ops/continuous improvement
Speakers: Anthony Wright & Dave Curtain
Tuesday 2 June - 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM AEST
LOD’s Anthony Wright and Dave Curtain will show you how to use continuous improvement methodology to solve the right problems in the right order. Anthony and Dave will outline practical steps to ensure you deliver tangible benefits to your team and your organisation.
Session 2: How to use the tech you already have - Register Now
Speakers: Amanda Fajerman & Luke Kelly
Wednesday 3 June - 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM AEST
LOD's Amanda Fajerman, Head of Legal Technology and Luke Kelly, Technical Product Manager will show you the legal tech solutions which you may not even know you have at your fingertips. You’ll see how to automate documents and workflows using Microsoft 365, receive some best-practice tips to get the most out of Microsoft including Teams and SharePoint. Amanda and Luke will demonstrate how to save time and money by properly sharing information within your legal team and with your internal clients. If you have a small or no budget or IT support, you will get a lot from this session.
Session 3: Design Thinking/Legal UX - Register Now
Speakers: Jemima Harris & Dave Curtain
Friday 5 June - 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM AEST
Jemima Harris and Dave Curtain, LOD’s Innovation & Design Directors, will explain the role of design thinking and user experience in improving in-house legal processes. They’ll show you how to conduct and maximise the value of design research when making legal process improvements, including user journey mapping, personas, iterative development and feedback. Design thinking does not need to be complicated or overwhelming. Jemima and Dave will show you how best to use this valuable tool in legal process improvement.
Session 4: Automation - Register Now
Speakers: Amanda Fajerman & Mitch Scott
Tuesday 9 June - 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM AEST
Automation is more about people and less about tech. LOD's Amanda Fajerman, Head of Legal Technology and Mitchell Scott, Business Data Process Analyst will explain when automation is appropriate, which elements of in-house legal process are suitable for automation, and how to prepare a document to make it fit for automation. They’ll explore how to design automated workflows and take you through a case study involving automated contract management. If you want to get back valuable time or enhance capability in the legal team, join this session.
Session 5: Planning and implementing a legal ops/tech change project - Register Now
Speakers: Jemima Harris & Dave Curtain
Wednesday 10 June - 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM AEST
Jemima Harris and Dave Curtain, LOD’s Innovation & Design Directors, will take you through the end to end process of planning and implementing a project to improve legal process. This session will cover the earliest stages of assessing opportunities for change, choosing the right sort of project, change management, project management, reporting through to post-implementation reviews.
Speakers
Amanda Fajerman, Head of Legal Technology - LOD Innovation & Design
Amanda is the head of legal technology for LOD Innovation and Design and is responsible for designing, implementing and developing legal technology solutions for inhouse teams, particularly LOD365 which is a complete solution for inhouse teams built on Microsoft. Amanda has 15+ years of legal and business experience in top tier private practice and in-house, working across a variety of industries including technology, property, building and construction, engineering, leasing, government and general commercial.
Anthony Wright, Head of LOD Innovation & Design
Anthony was the founder of lexvoco, an award-winning Australasian New Law firm, before it was acquired by LOD in 2019. Anthony joined the LOD team as Head of LOD Innovation and Design. Anthony’s passionate about the “in-house” way of working and trying to help in-house lawyers be the best they can be. Anthony’s an expert at legal team strategy, operations, innovation, change management and at advising lawyers on simplification, systems and processes. Anthony is admitted as a solicitor and still also practices in commercial, corporate and M&A law.
David Curtain, Director - LOD Innovation & Design
David has 20 years’ experience leading in-house legal teams and other business divisions in industries including energy, financial services, agribusiness and logistics. A Melbourne-based director of LOD’s Innovation & Design team, David works with clients around the globe to implement change projects involving legal operations and technology. David is a practising lawyer who holds a Bachelor of Laws/Arts, Grad Dip (Inhouse Practice) and Lean Six Sigma (Yellow Belt).
Jemima Harris, Director - LOD Innovation & Design
Jemima is a Director in the Innovation & Design Team based in our Brisbane office. She is an experienced lawyer, executive and company director who loves helping in-house teams be more effective, efficient and happier lawyers by simplifying systems and processes. Jemima has more than 15 years’ experience working with in and with corporate and government legal teams and advises clients on a range of corporate and commercial legal issues, as well as managing and delivering legal operations and technology consulting projects for clients globally.
Luke Kelly, Technical Product Manager - LOD Innovation & Design
At LOD, Luke is part of the Innovation & Design team, helping legal teams leverage their existing Microsoft services to achieve a variety of different outcomes and objectives. Luke works with teams to understand their needs and requirements, and to translate them into tangible solutions that make life easier for a lawyer.
Mitchell Scott, Automation Analyst - LOD Innovation & Design
Mitchell is an Automation Analyst for LOD’s Innovation & Design team in Melbourne. Mitchell has designed and delivered cutting-edge automation projects for public companies and global law firms, enabling in-house lawyers to do their best work. With degrees in Law and Computer Science, he’s passionate about applying technology and AI to solve problems for in-house legal teams. Mitchell is also a peer-reviewed machine learning scientist with deep expertise in natural language processing and data augmentation.
Notes
If your company/organisation is deemed to be a competitor of the host organisation for this event, you may be excluded from attending this event. If you believe there may be a conflict or are uncertain, please enquire with ACC Australia.
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