LEGAL OPS FOR LAWYERS

Catalog description

Legal ops provides the strategic planning, financial management, project management and technology expertise to support and strengthen the delivery of legal advice. In this course, students will learn about the economic forces currently impacting legal departments and law firms. These forces are creating pressures on all lawyers to provide effective and efficient legal services. Each class session will begin with a presentation on the weekly topic before students are asked to solve real-world scenarios by applying the skills they have just been taught. Leading experts in the field of legal operations will be making presentations on a specific topic in many of the classes. These guest instructors will bring their own examples of real-world problems they faced and ask the students to solve them.