i-LIKE Forum

Networking forum for those focused on improving operational effectiveness

Do you have responsibility for legal operations or knowledge management within an in-house legal team? This forum is designed just for you.

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Supporting Learning, Innovation, Knowledge and Excellence In-house

The LexisNexis i-LIKE forum brings together senior counsel, knowledge managers and legal operations directors working in-house to share best practice on digital transformation, legal operations and knowledge management to drive peak in-house legal department performance.

Our vision is to encourage collaboration and innovation to support in-house legal departments improve performance through the facilitating a peer network to exchange ideas.

Topics covered include: managing digital transformation, creating a culture of knowledge sharing, data analytics, demonstrating value of knowledge management to the business, managing global legal teams, process mapping, artificial intelligence, and technology.

Sessions are facilitated by speakers with specialist expertise in the relevant area of discussion. Forum members debate, discuss and share personal experience, challenges and best practice with a view to provide an informed view, fresh perspective and practical take-outs that can be put into action and inform the development of relevant, high-quality and unique content within Lexis®PSL In-house.

A strategic paper summarising the discussion is published for each session, providing invaluable insight from the members in attendance.

Value for you

As a member of the LexisNexis i-LIKE Forum you benefit from:

  • Gaining insight from senior operations and KM professionals on relevant, crucial issues impacting in-house legal teams both now and, in the future
  • Exchanging views, personal experiences and best practice with other senior, like-minded peers
  • The ability to benchmark yourself and your teams
  • Getting a wider perspective that just that of your own organisation or team’s current approach to driving performance management
  • Hearing from experts and thought provokers on interesting and varied topics
  • Keeping abreast of current issues and remaining critical to the success of your organisation

Events

The LexisNexis i-LIKE Forum regularly throughout the year in central London.

All events are held under the Chatham House Rule.

Membership is by invitation only.

To find out more and express an interest in joining the board, please submit your contact details and we will be in touch shortly.

Insights research and reports

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Legal Technology Looking past the hype
Legal Technology: Looking past the hype

130 in-house counsel reveal how their legal departments are using and benefitting from legal tech
In-house Technology Model
In-house Technology Model

Get clarity on where your legal department stands. We uncovered four distinct stages driven by defining behaviours displayed, and key opportunities in each for legal teams
From rhetoric to reality
From rhetoric to reality

We explore the link between the ‘leadership mindsets’ of in-house counsel and their capacity to influence and add value to their business
When being a good lawyer is not enough
When being a good lawyer is not enough

Do you really understand how you create value for your organisation? We joined forces with Cranfield School of Management to help in-house counsel develop and enhance this capability
Trust and Transparency
Trust and transparency

Towards or away from genuine trusted advisors? An analysis of the relationship between in-house legal teams and large law firms
Amplifying the voice of the client in law firms
Amplifying the voice of the client in law firms

Where is the disconnect between law firm and client? This research goes deeper than much of the commentary on the legal market place to explore the client-law firm relationship
GC350 benchmarking study for in-house counsel
GC350 benchmarking study for in-house counsel

100 senior counsel share insight into the influence and profile of legal teams, key challenges, budgets, distribution of work and use of external providers

Insights best practice reports

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The legal function of the future
The legal function of the future

How can general counsel prepare for the demands of the future? We explore what the future holds for in-house legal and to share practical advice on staying one step ahead.
The automation of contracting and contract lifecycle management
The automation of contracting and contract lifecycle management

What drives the need for contract management tools, implementation and the impact upon processes and people? Case study with Vodafone.
Assessing and measuring the quality of in-house legal teams
Assessing and measuring the quality of in-house legal teams

Senior Legal Operations professionals discuss the value and effectiveness of measuring the quality of in-house legal departments, including identifying the pitfalls and sharing practical lessons that can be learned from adopting such metrics into the business.
How to establish the operations function in the business
How to establish the operations function in the business

We explore how to develop the legal team professionally as a service delivery group and how to get buy-in for the Legal Operations function from the legal team senior management.
Using alternative legal service providers
Using alternative legal service providers

Fluctuating work level demands the constant requirement to demonstrate value. We explore how evolving attitudes to flexible working are changing the way in-house teams allocate their work.
Innovative ways of working with law firms
Innovative ways of working with law firms

What is meaning of innovation in the context of the delivery of legal services in an in-house environment? Senior counsel share four main strands of innovative practice.
Measuring the in-house legal team
Measuring the in-house legal team

Value. Why measure? What to measure? How to measure? Senior counsel share practical experiences and lessons learned using metrics to demonstrate the value of the in-house legal team.
Identifying and nurturing value
Identifying and nurturing value

How can leaders of in-house functions better understand and develop the value they deliver to their businesses? In partnership with Cranfield School of Management.

Insights from your peers

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Legal technology - the holy grail of innovation?
Legal technology - the holy grail of innovation?

Watch our 90 sec video in association with Crafty Counsel which explains that innovation in in-house legal teams should not begin with legal technology.
Legal Technology: The role of panel firms and legal service providers
Legal Technology: The role of panel firms and legal service providers

Watch our 90-second exec summary video, created in partnership with Crafty Counsel, on the key learnings around the role of panel firms and legal service providers in using legal technology to benefit in-house legal departments.
The role of technology in legal teams
The role of technology in legal teams

Watch our interview with Rob Booth, General Counsel of the Crown Estate, in which he discusses the role of technology in the legal industry, and in particular in-house legal teams.
Technology: the good, the bad and the ugly—A panel discussion
Technology: the good, the bad and the ugly—A panel discussion

Schroders’ Head of Operations, Fiona Robb; Shire Head of Legal Strategy Claire Debney; LexisNexis Engagements Manager Ann Hemming; and Vodafone Head of Legal Operations Amy McConnell debate how technology is providing in-house teams with the opportunity to demonstrate their value more effectively.

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