NewLaw Accelerator
Process Design + Improvement
March 28 and April 4, 2022 :: Virtual
Critical to building NewLaw competencies? The Triad of Process as applied to legal services delivery: process design, implementation, and continuous improvement. For decades, process design and improvement have been foundational elements in the development of agile workplaces across industries, and have the capacity to literally transform the way legal services are delivered across the spectrum of law.
In this NewLaw Accelerator Immersion workshop, you’ll learn a skill set you can use yourself and with your team to create and implement efficient and effective processes individually and across your organization. This practical, hands-on program includes a step-by-step framework for process selection, assessment, analysis, and improvement, as well as process mapping and change management.
All the way through, you’ll apply what you’re learning directly to a process you’ve chosen. By the end, you’ll have one improved process and a toolkit you can use across the practice and organization to accomplish more with less cost and less effort. Completion of the Process Design + Improvement for NewLaw Immersion qualifies participants for the credential of Legal Process Improvement Professional from the International Institute of Legal Project Management (IILPM).
Co-facilitated by Karen Skinner and David Skinner with Cat Moon. Karen and David are the sole trainers recognized by IILPM to offer certification training qualifying for the Legal Process Improvement Professional designation.
OVERVIEWWhat: A two-day, highly interactive immersion experience designed for legal professionals and delivered virtually via a format that provides hands-on learning and development.
A primary benefit of this workshop is its focus on the breadth, range, and scale of legal process design and improvement opportunities across the spectrum of legal services delivery, whether in a corporate law department, a small firm, or a large organization. We've designed the workshop to deliver high impact regardless of your role.
Who: Process Design + Improvement for NewLaw is designed for any legal professional seeking to improve how they work, as well as how their organization functions to optimize efficiency and accuracy and maximize outcomes.
The course is open to all kinds of legal professionals – including those with law degrees and executive management responsibilities for their teams, AND those with degrees or strong experience in business, technology, or executive operations who are working in legal to help improve a law department’s or firm's service delivery and value.
How: While the workshop will deliver substantive and demonstrable value, it does so via the power of collaboration and conversation, not siloed subject matters and academic lectures.
In addition to in-depth process training from experts Karen Dunn Skinner and David Skinner (bios below), participants will share their ideas, challenges, and experiences, and collaborate to design and iterate real process challenges faced in their work.
Registration is limited to a small cohort of 12 participants, to promote collaboration and dialogue.
When: Monday, March 28, 2022, from 9 am CDT to 5 pm CDT and Monday, April 4, 2022, from 9 am CDT to 5 pm CDT.
Where: Synchronous sessions will take place in Zoom and will require both audio and video connections. Asynchronous work and collaboration will take place in additional platforms provided as part of the Immersion experience.
Process Design + Improvement for NewLaw
March 28 and April 4, 2022 :: Virtual
Q: Who is Process Design + Improvement for NewLaw designed for?
A. Process design and improvement skills are critical for advancing any legal organization and for building NewLaw capabilities that will differentiate those who thrive in the 21st-century practice versus those who do not. With this training and the Legal Process Improvement Professional qualification, you will be empowered to introduce and integrate process skills into your work and the workflows of your organization, delivering immediate value and impact.
Q: What value does Process Design + Improvement for NewLaw deliver?
A: Distguinishing features of this immersion workshop include the following:
- Interactive content and training that focuses on participant-centered processes and qualifies participants for the Legal Process Improvement Professional designation issued by IILPM;
- A collaborative format that mixes short “burst” presentations on process topics with facilitated conversation between the participants designed to explore process design and improvement opportunities and apply learnings directly to participants' work
- Facilitated working sessions with experts who coach you through every step of the process design and improvement process, ensuring you can apply what you’re learning
- A curriculum tool that captures participants' process design and improvement learnings and serves as a playbook for implementing process design and improvement in the real world
Learning Outcomes
- The need for and purposes served by process design and improvement
- The essential elements of process design and improvement
- How process design and improvement can bring demonstrable value to individual and organization-wide workflows
- How to structure the design and deployment of legal processes to ensure success
Deliverables
- The full LeanLegal Process Improvement toolkit (a set of skills and tools you can apply over and over again to improve legal service delivery in your organization)
- An improvement plan setting out the steps you can take immediately to solve a process challenge you face in your daily work or a challenge facing your organization
- Qualification for the internationally recognized Legal Process Improvement Professional designation via IILPM
Participants will work individually and collaboratively to take an existing workflow through the design and improvement process and apply the new process immediately in their work. In addition, participants will receive the following:
- A full set of Immersion slides and materials
- Unfettered access to legal process professionals and the cohort over the course of the Immersion
- Access to the NewLaw Forum, a digital collaboration space for post-Immersion support, launching in 2022
Q: What is the cost and what is included?
A: Tuition for this Immersion workshop is $2200 USD per person.
A discount is available to organizations with more than one person registering and for those enrolled in the Certificate in Law and Innovation program. Please contact Cat Moon at c.moon@vanderbilt.edu or 615-322-6591 for more information about discounts.
Immersion tuition covers all course materials and instruction, including facilitation of pre-work and post-work outside of the synchronous Immersion schedule.
Immersion students also are invited into the NewLaw Forum upon its launch in 2022, an online community designed exclusively for Institute cohorts to facilitate and support their legal innovation journey.
Q: What is the schedule?
A: Live and synchronous on March 28 and April 4 with some individual, asynchronous work before and in between live sessions.
Students will receive Immersion pre-work, an assignment to be completed before the first live session on March 28. All times below are Central Standard Time (CST).
Monday, March 28, 2022 | Live in Zoom
7:45 am: Log into Zoom and get ready to learn!
8:00 am: Morning Session begins. Co-facilitators will kick off the Immersion promptly at 8:00 am. The Immersion is structured as a series of modules providing foundational concepts and content followed by collaborative engagement. Brief breaks will be taken between modules.
12:00 noon: Lunch break
1:00 pm: Afternoon Session begins, with brief breaks taken between modules.
5:00 pm: Conclusion of Day 1.
Monday, April 4, 2022 | Live in Zoom
7:45 am: Log into Zoom and get ready to learn!
8:00 am: Morning Session begins. Co-facilitators will kick off the Immersion promptly at 8:00 am. The Immersion is structured as a series of modules providing foundational concepts and content followed by collaborative engagement. Brief breaks will be taken between modules.
12:00 noon: Lunch break
1:00 pm: Afternoon Session begins, with brief breaks taken between modules.
5:00 pm: Conclusion of Day 2.
Participants will receive Immersion post-work, an assignment to be completed after the Immersion experience.
Q: Who is teaching Legal Process Design + Improvement for Law?
A: Highly qualified, experienced, and engaging faculty.
Faculty: Karen Dunn Skinner and David Skinner with Cat Moon
Karen Dunn Skinner and David Skinner believe every lawyer deserves a successful practice and the time to enjoy that success. To that end, they help lawyers and legal professionals build more efficient, productive, and profitable practices. Lawyers with over 20 years of experience each in Canada and Europe, they’re the co-founders of Gimbal Lean Practice Management Advisors.
Together, Karen and David are the exclusive Global Advisors on Legal Process Improvement to the International Institute of Legal Project Management. Karen sits on the IILPM’s Global Advisory Council, and David is a certified Business Made Simple coach.
Karen and David are industry leaders in the application of Lean to the legal profession. They write and speak regularly, facilitate legal process improvement projects across North America, and have taught Gimbal’s proven LeanLegal® approach to thousands of legal professionals around the world.
They combine their deep understanding of the legal industry with their training in Lean Six Sigma to provide practical solutions to the competitive and budgetary pressures on practitioners and clients alike.
Karen and David live in Montreal and spend winter weekends skiing at Mont Tremblant (where David is a Ski Patroller) and summer holidays paddling and kiting in the waters around Montreal and, when they can travel, on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
Q: Will this Immersion count towards the Certificate in Law and Innovation?
A: YES.
The Legal Process Design + Improvement for NewLaw Immersion course will count as one credit towards earning the Certificate in Law and Innovation.
RAVE REVIEWS
What people are saying about PoLI Institute
immersion workshops:
Jan Roggen
Law Firm Partner, US
LPM 2.0 Cohort Member
I would definitely recommend the PoLI Institute experience because it was an amazingly inspiring weekend with likeminded people who all face the same challenges trying to make legal a better place to work and live. The weekend gave me the confirmation and the energy to continue the difficult innovation journey.
Barbara McGinnis
Law Firm Partner, US
LPM 2.0 Cohort Member
It was thought-provoking and energizing. We get so tunneled vision focused, (as lawyers on our area of specialty) we forget there is so much to learn in life that can enhance our journey. This immersion experience gave me a peek into other possibilities.
Lori Gonzalez
Legal Operations Professional, US
LPM 2.0 Cohort Member
Bringing together multi-disciplinary individuals to teach the future of law is so much more effective when teaching law or the principles of law. I would definitely recommend this to legal professionals (without a JD) as a way to improve their legal knowledge (as well as share their unique experiences). Absolutely loved my first experience with PoLI — it won't be my last!
Rafael Figueiredo
General Counsel, US
LPM 2.0 Cohort Member
Personally, I loved the somewhat loose agenda (even if not intentional) which allowed ample time for thought-provoking dialogue on legal innovation, etc. + Unique take on legal process & project management — focus on LPM methodologies (necessary for certification purposes, I suspect) but combining with agile, lean six sigma and design thinking. I believe that combining these approaches makes things happen inside teams (legal or not) just a bit easier (i.e., as mentioned, important to choose the best tool/approach for each project or for each part of a project).
Contact
Cat Moon, PoLI Institute Director
Director of Innovation Design
Vanderbilt Law School
615-322-6591
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