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Process Improvement for Law: A Lean Six Sigma Profitability Primer

Course Description:

Why is process improvement so important for today’s law firm and legal department?  To put it in a nutshell, it saves time and money.

Process improvement techniques like Lean and Six Sigma are often associated with manufacturing rather than professional services.  Yet, when law firms and legal departments begin to examine, measure, and streamline their processes, bottom line profitability goes up.

Why?  Because Lean simplifies processes, gets rid of extra steps, increases speed and productivity, and examines efficiency.  While Six Sigma improves process outputs by removing variations in business processes. 

Find out how Six Sigma, Lean and other process improvement methodologies can be applied within your organization to pump-up productivity and reduce costs.

In this information-packed CCM teleconference, you’ll learn:

• What process improvement is and why it’s so critical for law firms and legal departments,
• How to apply process improvement methodologies within your law firm or legal department, and
• How process improvement can drive down the costs of legal services by identifying and eliminating inefficiencies that push costs up.

During this need-to-know session, you’ll also learn how to:

• Effectively execute process improvement at your firm or in your legal department
• Choose which processes will benefit most from improvement projects
• Determine which process improvement methodologies can be used to improve the way work is performed and delivered
• How to get your process improvement project started

Featured Faculty:

Rees Morrison, Esq., President, Rees Morrison Associates (RMA)

Rees Morrison, Esq. is the President of Rees Morrison Associates (RMA). Based in Princeton, NJ, Rees has for the past 20 years consulted solely to law departments: operational reviews, cost control, re-engineering, structure and organization assessments, client satisfaction, technology, benchmarking, and other issues. Rees has assisted more than 250 law departments.

Before RMA, Morrison was a partner at Thomson/Hildebrandt for six years, Altman Weil for five years, and Arthur Andersen for four years, before which he served as the Consulting Assistant to the General Counsel of Merck. Before that Morrison was a Director in the Law Department Group of Price Waterhouse, vice president of two software firms, and an associate at Weil Gotshal & Manges and two other law firms.

My blog is at LawDepartmentManagementBlog.com

Ronica Bowen, VP, NEXT LEVEL Partners®, LLC

Ms. Ronica Bowen spent 20 years with Danaher Corporation as a lean manufacturing professional before joining NEXT LEVEL Partners, a lean manufacturing and six sigma consulting firm. She is currently NEXT LEVEL Partners’ Vice President of Consulting Services. She also held positions in Operations, Engineering, Maintenance and Quality. Most recently, she was Director of the Danaher Business System (DBS) for Danaher Corporation in the Southern United States and Mexico. She also served as the Worldwide DBS Director for one of Danaher’s largest divisions ($700M+), Gilbarco Veeder-Root. Before joining Gilbarco Veeder-Root, she worked with two other Danaher Divisions, Jacobs Chuck and Danaher Tool Group. During the acquisition and integration of Gilbarco into Gilbarco Veeder-Root, Ms. Bowen lead a team of eight lean professionals in implementing lean manufacturing and six sigma in a mixed model, engineered to order, operations environment. This team facilitated over 175 kaizens per year in the United States, Mexico, Europe and China. Ms. Bowen has Master Black Belts in 5S/Visual Management, Standard Work, Materials Pull Systems, Value Stream Mapping, Variation Reduction, Single Minute Exchange of Dies, Total Productive Maintenance, Transactional Process Improvement, and Production Preparation Process (3P). She is also a certified 6 Sigma Black Belt from Air Academy. She is a co-author of Danaher’s, Flow module, Boot Camp for Lean Professionals, and Total Productive Maintenance Module. She is certified to teach Hoshin Kanri, CEDAC, Boot Camps and Executive Orientations. During her career, she has personally facilitated over 750 kaizens in Fortune 500 and large manufacturing companies throughout the world.

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CLE:

CCM provides audio conference attendees with CLE credit processing services. To expedite CCM processing your CLE request, please complete and submit the evaluation form available from CCM at the conclusion of the audio conference. It will be necessary to enter the following information: name of each attorney requesting CLEs with full contact information, including e-mail address, bar number, and the state in which the attorney wants credits. Each attorney requesting credits must submit an evaluation.

Please be advised CCM audio conferences are subject to approval from each CLE issuing organization and approval is not guaranteed (state bar associations in Delaware, Indiana, Kansas, Ohio, and Pennsylvania do not grant CLE credits for audio conferences). The approval process takes approximately 6 - 8 weeks for most organizations but can take as long as 3 - 4 months. You will be notified via e-mail with the final status of your CLE application.

Any person applying for CLE credits must attend the audio conference from start to finish (attendance will be taken for compliance reasons). Requests for CLE credits must be received no later than two weeks following the conclusion of the audio conference or live conference. CLE credits are not available for CD recordings.

If you have any questions regarding CLE credits, contact Jill Adler at 631.368.2082 x 21 or jill.adler@meeting-matters.com.

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