1 Matter Profiling ILTA Webinar November 21, 2013 Tom Baldwin, Chief Knowledge Officer, Reed Smith Phil Bryce, Knowledge Resources Counsel, White & Case Tanya Vasilev, Senior Legal Manager, Cisco Systems Moderated by Chris Boyd, Senior Director of Professional Services, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
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Matter ProfilingILTA Webinar
November 21, 2013
Tom Baldwin, Chief Knowledge Officer, Reed SmithPhil Bryce, Knowledge Resources Counsel, White & Case
Tanya Vasilev, Senior Legal Manager, Cisco Systems
Moderated by Chris Boyd, Senior Director of Professional Services, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
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Definition of “Matter Profiling”
• Recording information about each case, deal or other matter handled by the department or firm
• Tying this information to other knowledge assets, e.g. matter financials, work product, time entries, etc.
• Making all of this searchable to enable defined use cases (scenarios)
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Reasons to Profile MattersBusiness Reason Law Department Law Firm
Service delivery-Precedents-Experts-Contract management
-Precedents-Experts
Marketing / sales-In scope / out of scope- Internal marketing / business case
• Which matters• When to do it• Which metadata• Who does it• How to do it
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Case Study #1: White & Case
• One of the world’s largest law firms– 1,900+ lawyers in 38 offices in 26 countries
practicing in 17+ languages– About 65% of lawyers are outside of the U.S.
• Emphasis on global footprint as competitive advantage– Seamless global integration, and “One Firm”
approach, is a high priority
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Case Study #1: White & Case
• Strong commitment to Knowledge Management• Chief Knowledge Officer (Oz Benamram)• Knowledge Department includes
– Professional Support (over 30 Professional Support Lawyers globally)
– Library and Research– Information Governance and Records Management– Conflicts and New Business– Knowledge Systems (Intranet, Search)
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Case Study #1: White & Case
CONFLICT CHECK
PITCH
MATTER RESOLUTIO
N
WORKING PHASE
MATTER OPEN
MATTER ADMINISTRATIVE
CLOSE
PITCHING
PRICING, PROFITABILITY, REPORTING
EXPERTISE, STAFFING
LOCATING MATERIALS
MANAGING RELATIONSHIPS
Matter Phases
Supported Processes
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Case Study #1: White & Case
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Case Study #1: White & Case
AdminClosing
Suggested Enhancements
A process to collect substantive legal lessons learned is implemented for each matter and integrated into the Matter Profile
Matter Workspaces on Connect aggregate information from various data sources into one place to give Attorneys an easy way to locate all of the needed client and matter information when it is relevant to them.
Matter Profiling establishes processes by which lawyers familiar with matters would describe and profile substantially all matters, and update those descriptions and profile values at key points during the matter lifecycle.
Managing Clerk will docket relevant litigation materials and augment information within Connect matter pages as cases progress.
Integrate Marketing pitch information into the Matter lifecycle so that the information gathered during this phase is fed into other systems and exposed for future use.
New Business Intake system modernization including integration with InterAction for client/party information:
Client Numbering Schema: Eliminate silos of information about our clients by developing consistent global procedures that result in a single client number for all representations for any particular client going forward.
Create a single comprehensive global approach for managing final document collections to improve client service, records retention, reduce risk and create a searchable repository of prior work product for knowledge and other purposes.
MatterResolution
Pitch
ConflictCheck
MatterOpening
WorkPhase
CRM
CRM
CRM
CRMFINFIN
PPM
MPSMPS
MPS
CON
CON
CON
DOC
MatterPage
Suggested Enhancements
Suggested Enhancements
Suggested Enhancements
Suggested Enhancements Suggested Enhancements
REC
DMSDMS
DMS
*Optional
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Case Study #1: White & Case
• New Business Intake Process– Selection of Matter Practice and “Type of Service”– Questions limited to those needed to initiate matter
• “Day 2” (in process)– Currently, Marketing team and, increasingly, PSLs, update
matter information for selected matters– Marketing has a Matter Profiling Team that proactively
updates matter information– In future, we hope to automate “trigger” points and include
workflow to get lawyer input
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Case Study #1: White & Case
• Closing– On-Line Transaction Closing Questionnaires are
available for each Practice– We have a new centralized Electronic Closing Binder
process, and when a closing binder is received we notify the PSLs, Marketing and specifically the Matter Profiling team so that matter information can be reviewed and updated
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Case Study #2: Reed Smith
• Background on the firm• Business reasons for matter profiling
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Why upgrade?
• Create an experience that is more inviting – an experience that encourages the profiling of matters
• Introduce key functionality that will “bring back” lawyers who found it too restrictive
• Offer a step-by-step process (wizard), but also allow users to enter information in a non-linear manner
• Gamify process – Enhance leaderboard functionality and include more progress touchpoints
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Old MPT
No ability to browse for a
specific matter
Only one Area of Law
per matter
The Matter Profiling Tool
launched January 19, 2012. Since then, 2,577
matters have been profiled
by Reed Smith
attorneys.
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Old MPT
Matters Profiled in
2012:1479
Matters Profiled in
2013 (YTD): 1098
2013 Projection
with release of MPT 2.0:
2233
Lengthy Entry Form; no sense of
progress
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TREND - Number of
Matters Profiled:
4Q2012: 325
1Q2013: 442
2Q2013: 487
Projections:
3Q2013: 718
4Q2013: 586
MATTER PROFILING TOOL 2.0
You Are Here! (Step user thru
process)
Most important
question is first
Ability to define multiple AOL
codes for single matter
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Are we there yet?
Prominent display of most
encouraged functions
MATTER PROFILING TOOL 2.0
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The Differentiator
“ There is no question the
ability to search the information archived in MPT
has helped us win significant new client work and
improve our rankings in key
industry directories
including Legal 500, Chambers
and The American Lawyer. "
~ Dave Egan, Chief Marketing Officer
MATTER PROFILING TOOL 2.0
What does “My
World” look like? Leaderboard
by Practice or Firm
Visual indication of completeness
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Promotional Efforts
Promote top profiles and top PGs on our intranet
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Promotional Efforts
• Emails come from senior person• Direct link to matters ready to be profiled• Inclusion of ranking…
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Results
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Cisco Legal Global Center of Excellence (gCOE)A team within Cisco Legal specializing in providing Legal Services to other Cisco functions and to the Legal colleagues with high efficiency and effectiveness
Launched Nov.1, 2010 as pilotStructured globally for the “follow the sun” model60%+ productivity increase YoY, 3 years in a rowNearly 5000 legal matters handled a quarter (as of October 2013)