InHouse is the conference for legal, ops & IT leaders who focus on what matters, who break down barriers, who achieve better, faster, more predictable outcomes.
For leaders who cull the noise. For you.
A simple A/B test that resulted in seven-figure savings. A guide to handling TB cases without burning your budget on vendors or OC. Watch this session for direct insights from in-house teams that are tackling major problems and getting big wins. Join Katie Lynch, Director of Legal Support at Veolia North America, and Tammy Thompson, Director of Litigation Services for Worley, as they show how they’ve taken control of their discovery and investigations process for massive savings. We’ll dive deep into case studies and lay out strategies you can begin using today.
“Move fast and break stuff”—it’s a famous startup mantra, but it certainly doesn’t apply to the legal team. When your company, and litigation department, is growing rapidly both in headcount and responsibility, how do you move fast while creating processes that scale? Megan Coker, Associate General Counsel at Workrise, and Terence Leong, Senior Counsel, Litigation at Compass, share their insights.
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What comes after two years of disruption? When the economy right-sizes, the booms slow or the busts revert, and work gets more or less back to normal, in-house leaders need to lay the groundwork for the long road ahead. Susan Packal, Senior Director of Legal Operations and Chief of Staff at Twilio, and Stephanie Lamoureaux, Legal Operations Lead at Square share how they are dealing with the most pressing daily challenges while preparing for the future.
For those that review their law firm and vendor bills each month and think "we got a great deal!", this roundtable talk isn't for you. But if you're looking to get more control over, and more visibility into, outside legal spend, join our panel of legal ops pros who've built the playbooks that rein in costs and give more insight into budgeting. In this session, Akshay Verma, Director of Legal Operations at Facebook, Elizabeth Miller, Head of Legal Operations at Dolby Labs, and Jessica Vander Ploeg, Sr. Legal Operations Manager at NetApp, discuss their most successful strategies for controlling outside spend.
How do you create relationships with outside counsel that bring out their best performance, while also maintaining control? How do you institute processes that remove low-value tasks and empower your internal teams to do their best work? How do you nurture your talent in a remote environment and grow them in their careers? Yoon Ettinger, Associate General Counsel at Southern Company Gas, Tom Stephenson, Director of Legal Operations at Credit Karma, and Julie Richer, Director of Legal Operations and eDiscovery at American Electric Power, share their insights and practical tips.
Corporate law departments are under increased pressure—from the C-suite, their boards, and society—to reflect the diversity of America both internally and with their outside partners. That pressure will not dissipate any time soon. Join Lloyd Johnson, founder and CEO of Chief Legal Executive LLC, Omar Sweiss, founder and CEO of Justice Bid, and Kristen Jones, Director of Legal Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at McDonald’s, for a candid conversation on how empowered legal teams are leveraging data to drive DEI efforts, encouraging greater transparency and accountability around diversity, and navigating the increased demands faced by law departments and their outside partners.
A simple A/B test that resulted in seven-figure savings. A guide to handling TB cases without burning your budget on vendors or OC. Watch this session for direct insights from in-house teams that are tackling major problems and getting big wins. Join Katie Lynch, Director of Legal Support at Veolia North America, and Tammy Thompson, Director of Litigation Services for Worley, as they show how they’ve taken control of their discovery and investigations process for massive savings. We’ll dive deep into case studies and lay out strategies you can begin using today.
When you think about companies like Stripe and Brex, descriptors like “unicorn” or “rocketship” come to mind. Vince Cogan was in on the ground floor at both. In this Q&A, the former GC and current VP of Government and Regulatory Affairs at Brex describes how to build and nurture a foundational culture that scales.
Throughout her career, Amy Sellars has taken in-house legal organizations from reactive and ad-hoc to innovative and empowered, with a single driving principle: Keep things powerfully simple, so people can do their job. Join her as she explains her approach to transformation and how she’s leading a better approach to eDiscovery and litigation as Director of Cardinal Health’s Discovery Center of Excellence.
What processes do great legal teams need to master in-house eDiscovery? Liz Victor, Sr. Paralegal at the Williams Company, lays out the basics for in-house data preservation and collection, early case assessment, and, most importantly, culling the junk so you can find the signal you need.
We’ve come a long way from AIM. Today, chat has moved from flame wars with “GiantsFan415” to the center of the (increasingly virtual) workplace, as Slack, Teams, and other collaborative messaging tools transform the way we communicate. But “productivity apps” can lead to a very unproductive—and expensive, and risky, and frustrating—legal process if not handled proactively. Join Kyle Kelly of Coinbase and litigators Renee Bea and David Slarskey as they share practical guidance for mitigating discovery risks posed by chat, and handling thorny evidentiary issues should they arise.
