Due to the coronavirus outbreak, we will be hosting live webinars in place of live seminars for the foreseeable future. We will send an email as soon as live seminars are up and running again. We appreciate your patience.
For our CPA customers, note that live webinar credits are equivalent to live seminar credits and will satisfy your credit requirements.
For our attorney customers, individual state legal education requirements will vary. As of now, it appears that the PACLE Board will review attorney compliance on an individual basis if you are unable to find live seminar credits prior to your deadline. If you require more detail, please reach out to the Legal Education Board in your state.
Delivering Value to Corporate Clients
Ensuring that a corporate client receives sufficient value for the fees paid for the legal service represents a critical, but difficult, aspect of the relationship with that client. Unfortunately, determining the client’s view of the value of legal service represents a challenge, one that many attorneys fail to realize or to fully meet. In addition, the value of the service touches many aspects of how counsel works with and provides service to the client, rendering the effort even more difficult.
Join the Legal Resource Network on May 26 for a two-hour discussion of value in the context of representing a company. Over the course of this webinar, you will hear from experts who represent the important perspectives that service providers, including outside lawyers, accountants and others, need to keep in mind as they service corporate clients. Cost represents a concern for all clients (especially corporate clients) and providers must pay attention to the costs of their service, including their own fees and the other costs incurred by or on behalf of their clients during the representation. Those providers must also keep in mind, however, the greater concern that corporate clients have: how much will the client benefit in its day-to-day activities and in achieving its business objectives and how does that compare to the cost of doing so? In other words (and more succinctly), how much value does the client realize from the providers’ efforts? Accordingly, we will have speakers address that broader issue as well as the subsidiary questions related to cost, coordinated effort and the application of various management techniques intended to enhance the benefit that flows to the client.
Learning Objectives:
- Discuss value billing theory and practice
- Review common billing procedures
Presenters:
Over the course of the webinar, you’ll hear from the following:
Steve Lauer of Lauer & Associates, who spent over fifteen years as an in-house lawyer and has assisted multiple clients to realize greater value from the efforts of their internal and external counsel. Steve has also written many articles and books on legal service management and delivery.
Kenneth Vermilion of the Vermilion Group. Ken spent many years as the operations manager of the law departments of several large corporations and has co-authored with Steve many articles and a book on the value of legal service.
Pamela Davis, Chief Executive Officer of Veriten Legal, spent a number of years as an in-house counsel, in which capacity she managed large portfolios of claims related to workers’ compensation issues. Pamela now assists companies to reduce their exposure to such claims and the cost of that effort.
Shree Sharma, Vice President of Business Development at Haystack, is an experienced e-discovery attorney who consults with companies in order to manage more efficiently their e-discovery efforts and better meet their litigation-related obligations in that regard.
Jared Correia, Chief Executive Officer of Red Cave Law Firm Consulting, advises law firms on how to achieve greater efficiency through better implementation of technology and other techniques.
| When: |
Wednesday, May 26th, 2021. 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM EST |
| Where: |
Your home or office |
| Speaker: |
Steve Lauer, ESQ, Kenneth Vermillion, ESQ, Pamela Davis, ESQ, Shree Sharma, ESQ, Jared Correia, ESQ |
| CPE Credits: |
2 Business Management & Organization CPE |
| CLE Credits: |
2 Substantive CLE |
| Program Level: |
Basic |
| Prerequisites: |
None |
| Advanced Preparation: |
None |
| Delivery Method: |
Group Internet-Based |
| Price: |
FREE for ALA Members / $49 for Non-Members |
About CPE/CLE:
* The ALA partners with McDevitt and Kline LLC for certificate issuance. Live, internet-based courses are approved as Distance Learning courses by the PA Supreme Court CLE Board. For additional information, please visit http://www.pacle.org/. Check with your State CLE Board for rules pertaining to live webcasts. These rules differ from state to state. For example, PA attorneys may earn up to 6 CLE credits per compliance period via live webcasts (or 6 out of 12 credits per year); NJ and DE attorneys may earn up to 12 CLE credits per compliance period via live webcasts (or 12 out of 24 credits per two years).
McDevitt & Kline, LLC is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA), as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be addressed to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors, 150 Fourth Avenue North, Suite 700, Nashville, TN, 37219-2417. Web site:www.nasba.org.
