LPO Conference Hits New York

Mark your calendars, a new LPO conference titled, “Examining Legal Outsourcing Strategies and Deciding What Fits Best for Your Company,” is scheduled for February 14-16, 2011 at The Sentry Center in New York, NY.

This conference, one of the first major LPO events in the United States in some time, will discuss how legal process outsourcing is fundamentally different from other types of outsourcing and will address the unique considerations inherent in LPO.

I am chairing the event and will host a distinguished line-up of speakers from organizations such as Chrysler Latin America, Integreon, Clifford Chance, Pfizer, Microsoft, Nokia, Milbank Tweed, Wilmer Hale, Shapiro Sher Guinot & Sandler, Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP, Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz, Kaye Scholer LLP and Mayer Brown.


The conference will cover a laundry list of LPO issues and will help you:
Understand your obligations as a legal professional when outsourcing;

Assess outsourcing for contract management, a top emerging service area in 2011;

Understand the legal outsourcing options available to your company;

Learn the key factors to consider before making a decision to outsource;

Understand the scope of required conflict checks in an outsourcing arrangement;

Strengthen communications and clarify expectations between your company and the outsourced entity; and

Address the scope and content of required confidentiality agreements and their limitations.


As a pre-conference warm-up, the conference website features several interesting podcasts by conference speakers including interviews with Lucy Bassli of Microsoft, Mark Ross of Integreon, and Cathleen Pedersen of Orrick. The Bassli podcast is of particular interest and outlines Mircosoft’s work outsourcing contracts with Integreon as announced earlier last year.

If you have any interest or involvement in legal outsourcing, you won’t want to miss this event.