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77 WWW.ILTANET.ORG EXTRAS Navigating Through the RFP Process Navigating Through the RFP Process Imagine you are in the marketing department at a law firm and you are tasked with answering your first request for proposal (RFP), or perhaps you are part of a corporate law department and need to develop a program to create RFPs and determine which respondents to select. What would you do? Who do you need to involve? How will you get this done? Creating and responding to RFPs for legal services is becoming increasingly common in the legal marketplace. Oen, people from several areas in an organization are involved to support this work. To help educate and inform, ILTA has developed a program of content to share throughout 2016 related to the theme of RFPs for legal services. We have several pieces of content already prepared and much more on the way. Below is a summary of the offerings. Blogs (www.iltanet.org/blogs) For a general background on the RFP process and people involved, read the blog post "RFP Story: What Is an RFP? " wrien by Angel Gonzalez, Director Information Technology at Lowenstein Sandler LLP, and Justin Hectus, Director of Information at Keesal, Young & Logan. If you are in a corporate law department and would like to understand more about developing an RFP, look for "RFP Story: Developing the RFP" wrien by Silvia Hodges Silverstein, Executive Director of Buying Legal Counsel. Perhaps you hold a position in a law firm involved with responding to an RFP. If so, catch up on "RFP Story: Responding to RFPs" by Peter Darling, partner at the Repachage Group, and David Leone, Director of Litigation Support at Saul Ewing LLP. In development now is another blog about compiling and comparing the RFP responses. Stay tuned! ILTACON Recording (iltacon.org/downloads) If you were unable to aend ILTACON this year, access the recording for Wednesday's session on "RFPs: Is There a Beer Process?" Session Description: The request for proposal (RFP) process is of critical importance to both law departments seeking counsel and law firms seeking business. With experts from both sides of the aisle, we'll discuss key procedural tips, lessons learned, areas for improvement and approaches that won — and lost — business. we will have a panel representing both the law firm and law department perspectives discussing lessons they have learned and best practices in their journey to developing efficient and effective legal services RFP processes. We hope these resources will help you through the complicated RFP process. If you have any ideas for additional programming in this area, feel free to contact us. P2P Sco David Senior Manager – Service Support Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP scdavid@vorys.com Chris Emerson Chief Practice Economics Officer Bryan Cave LLP cemerson@bryancave.com Adaptive Solutions Aderant American LegalNet Aurora North BigHand Capensys Capital Novus Datashield DocsCorp DocSolid Elevate Services Epiq Systems Exterro Fidelus Technologies FRONTEO Fulcrum GT Handshake Software HBR Consulting HighQ iManage Inovitech IntApp Intapp, Inc. Intelliteach Ipro Tech Kraft & Kennedy, Inc. LaSalle Solutions Litéra Microsystems mindSHIFT Technologies, Inc. (a RIcoh company) NetDocuments OpenText Padcaster Perficient Polycom Preparis RBRO Solutions Recommind, Inc. Ricoh Americas Corporation Samsung SAP/Fulcrum Traveling Coaches TruShield Security Solutions THANK YOU TO OUR ILTACON 2016 SPONSORS

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