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Award-Winning Insight on Innovation and the Evolving Role of LPS Professionals
What major accomplishments did your team achieve in 2015?
Perhaps the most significant team accomplishment in 2015 was
developing our multidisciplinary approach, where we could deliver
cost-effective outcomes for our clients through the integration of our
legal, technical and document review teams. This involved combining
a range of expertise with the use of leading-edge technologies,
efficient workflows and project management.
Stakeholder engagement was also an important focus. We
created a multidisciplinary team of lawyers and technologists to
develop and deliver marketing and educational programs for clients
and lawyers. We delivered many presentations to individual practice
groups, partner groups and clients.
We also concentrated on utilizing key metrics to deliver innovative
alternative pricing models for litigation and regulatory maers, which
has enabled us to satisfy our clients' needs for greater value.
Legal project management (LPM) education for our senior team
was achieved through the successful in-house development and
delivery of a two-day LPM training course.
What technologies have been career-changing for you?
As a member of Allens' Innovation Working Group, I'm
always on the lookout for innovative technologies. One of the most
important innovations in this space has been in technology-assisted
review, including analytics and predictive coding.
Analytics, including concept clustering and data visualization,
have been effective in driving down costs in this world of big
data. It's not unusual to start with well over a million documents
on a litigation maer. We've been very successful in using these
by Beth Paerson of Allens
Award-Winning Insight on
Innovation and the Evolving
Role of LPS Professionals
Litigation Support Professional
of the Year
