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Smart tech choices for scaling legal service
2025-07-15 11:00 - 11:45 (America/Los_Angeles)
Smart tech choices for scaling legal service: attack your biggest inefficiencies and invest where it counts.
Is your legal team stretched thin, buried in admin, and struggling to keep pace with growing business demands? You’re not alone.
New IDC research reveals that only 37% of in-house legal teams feel they have the resources they need — and that growing demand and inefficient, manual workflows are a major contributor to the pressure.
In this 45-minute session, we’ll cut through the noise of a crowded tech market and focus on what really matters: how to eliminate your most common inefficiencies and invest in tools that deliver both quick wins and long-term scalability.
Hear from legal ops expert Zack Hutto, Consulting Lead at Epiq, who has guided legal departments of all sizes through operational transformation. He’ll share practical guidance for evaluating legal tech, transforming the way you work, and building a tech stack that unleashes your potential.
You’ll also get a boots-on-the-ground perspective from an in-house lawyer supporting a fast-growing business, who will share real-world workflow fixes that helped her small legal team save time, reduce friction, and scale effectively.
You’ll walk away with:

A breakdown of the workflows costing your team the most time and bandwidth
Workflow fixes that deliver fast relief (with real-world examples from in-house experts)
A pragmatic overview of the tools that belong in a modern in-house legal tech stack
Expert tips for evaluating legal tech that scales — and how to ensure long-term ROI

Whether you’re just starting your legal tech journey or looking to expand without burnout, this session will help you make smarter decisions — and move your team from reactive to strategic.

From Ad hoc to Advanced
2025-07-22 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
LawVu is thrilled to host a key session in ACC’s multi-part ACC Legal Operations Maturity Model Webinar Series 3.0.
Join us to walk through the framework with legal ops experts and legal leaders who have lived it.
Discover where your team sits on the legal ops maturity curve when it comes to technology — and what it takes to move from ad hoc tools to a strategic, scalable legal tech ecosystem.
Plus, you’ll get access to the maturity model framework and useful tools to take away.

Smarter drafting in Word: A practical case study
2025-09-25 08:00 - 17:00 (Pacific/Auckland)
In-house legal teams often struggle to access and apply the wealth of knowledge their organizations have built over the years. Fallback clauses, risk positions, and policy considerations are often buried in repositories, making them difficult to surface in day-to-day drafting. Even with a legal workspace, deploying this knowledge seamlessly into Word can be a challenge—slowing down contract review and increasing the risk of inconsistencies.
Senne Mennes (COO, ClauseBase), Patrick Kelley (Director of Channel Partnerships, LawVu), and Ali Meredith (Director of Product Partnerships, LawVu) will demonstrate best practices for leveraging a legal workspace and Word add-in to streamline drafting, accelerate review, and improve contract consistency.
You’ll see firsthand how LawVu’s AI-powered workspace integrates with ClauseBase’s drafting toolbox to put precedents, clauses, and playbooks directly at your fingertips in Word.

From chaos to clarity: how in-house legal teams can manage work in one place
2025-10-21 11:00 - 13:00 (Europe/London)
Legal teams spend too much time chasing updates, filing documents, and managing low-value admin tasks instead of focusing on strategic advice or risk management. But there’s a better way to get total control and visibility without drowning in admin.
Join us for a practical session where we dig into intake and matter management strategies that bridge the gap between business demands and legal delivery. We’ll explore how to transform chaotic request flows into streamlined, predictable processes, and how to free your team from repetitive tasks so they can focus on high-value work.
You’ll discover how to:

Build a clear, efficient intake process that works for everyone
Learn about true business user self service and automation to get the easy work off legal’s plate
Gain total visibility and control of team workload
Discover the benefits of matter management
Track and measure your team’s impact through data and insights to effectively demonstrate legal’s value

Partnering with Your CFO
2025-10-21 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
Securing budget for legal resources — whether additional professionals or new technology — is one of the toughest challenges for in-house teams. You know the value that legal modernization brings to the business, but turning that into a compelling case your C-suite will support is another story.
In this exclusive session, David Lancelot, Chief Legal Officer, and Larry Roseman, Chief Financial Officer at Thumbtack, shared practical insights from both sides of the table to help legal leaders build stronger business cases and secure executive buy-in.
Watch the replay to learn actionable strategies to:

Frame investments in terms the business and finance leaders care about
Quantify and communicate the impact of legal initiatives
Anticipate CFO questions and objections before they derail your case
Strengthen your influence as an in-house leader and business partner

This session offers a rare opportunity to hear directly from a CLO and a CFO – two perspectives, one conversation – packed with real-world advice on how to secure the resources your legal function needs to operate with excellence.
Why you should watch
This program is ideal for General Counsel, Chief Legal Officers, Heads of Legal Operations, and in-house counsel who want to elevate their business impact and increase their chances of securing budget for critical legal tools and initiatives.

Mastering Microsoft Word: Advanced skills for in-house lawyers
2026-01-22 10:00 - 11:00 (Pacific/Auckland)
Microsoft Word is the backbone of the legal industry, but for many, it’s also a source of daily frustration. Stop wasting hours wrestling with formatting issues, strange document behaviors, and features that seem more like obstacles than tools.
Watch the recording to learn how to take control of Word and make it work for you. We covered practical tips, advanced techniques, and best practices tailored for in-house legal professionals, so you can stop fighting with Word and start using it efficiently and confidently.
In this session, we discussed:

Document structure mastery
Styles and formatting secrets
Troubleshooting common issues for legal work

Mastering Microsoft Word for In‑House Legal: styles, structure and stress-free formatting
2026-03-11 15:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
Microsoft Word may be the legal industry’s default drafting tool—but for many in‑house teams, it’s also the fastest way to lose time. From mysteriously changing numbering to documents that “look fine” until you send them to the business, Word formatting issues can quietly derail speed, consistency, and confidence in your work product.
Watch as Maarten Truyens (Senior Product Manager, LawVu) and Ali Meredith, (Director of Product Partnerships, LawVu) share practical techniques to help in‑house legal professionals use Word more efficiently and predictably—without fighting the document.
Key Takeaways

How to build (and maintain) clean document structure so sections, headings, and numbering behave
Styles and formatting tactics that keep templates consistent across a team
The most common Word problems in legal workflows—and how to troubleshoot them fast
A take-home manual for setting up formatting and paragraph styles so you can create consistent documents every time

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AI and automation in legal ops: Lessons from in-house legal leaders
2026-03-25 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
AI is everywhere in legal tech – but many legal teams are discovering that simply adding AI features or automation tools doesn’t automatically deliver value. Without the right foundations in place, these initiatives often fall short, leading to poor adoption and growing skepticism.
In this session, we’ll explore what it really means to be AI and automation-ready in legal operations. We’ll cover the core operational capabilities, mindset shifts, and practical questions legal ops teams should consider before investing in new technology, so you can drive meaningful ROI, not just experimentation.
You’ll also hear from Mike Vitko, legal operations leader at Somatus, who will share real-world insights on improving legal workflows and driving successful operational change.
In this session, we’ll cover:

Why AI and automation initiatives often fail and what’s usually missing
The foundations legal ops teams need before adopting new technology
Key questions to ask vendors (and internally) when evaluating solutions
How data, workflows, and adoption readiness impact success
How to set realistic expectations and deliver long-term value
This webinar is designed for in-house legal operations leaders who want to approach AI and automation with clarity and confidence

Unlocking advanced reporting with LawVu and Elevate
2026-04-16 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
Legal teams that embrace data-driven decision-making are better positioned to optimize budgets, manage risk, and continuously improve how legal services are delivered.
We explore how advanced reporting and analytics can help legal teams gain deeper visibility into workload, cycle time, risk exposure, and spend, empowering legal to run with the same transparency and rigor as any other business unit.
What’s covered:

How to create continuous insight across legal operations and performance
What’s possible beyond standard platform reporting
How Insights Connect extends LawVu’s reporting capabilities
Available services from Elevate to help maximize the value of your legal data

Whether you’re looking to enhance your current reporting or explore what’s possible with advanced legal analytics, this session will provide practical insight and real-world examples.

Operationalizing your contract playbook: an in‑house guide to AI‑assisted review
2026-03-31 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Contract review shouldn’t depend on who happens to pick up the document. In this replay, LawVu experts Shaun Plant and Josie Norris show in-house legal teams exactly how to turn contract playbooks into an operational system — one that applies your legal standards consistently, flags risk automatically, and helps your team review contracts faster and with greater confidence.
Watch to see AI-powered contract playbooks in action and walk away with a framework you can start applying to your team’s workflows right away.
You’ll discover:

How to build a modern, scalable contract playbook
How AI flags non-compliant clauses and applies fallback language automatically
How to reduce manual redlining without increasing risk
How playbook intelligence flows across your entire contract lifecycle

How in-house legal teams can eliminate workflow blind spots with contract intelligence
2026-04-29 03:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York)
Watch on demand: How In-House Legal Teams Can Eliminate Workflow Blind Spots with Contract Intelligence
See how contract intelligence connects drafting, review, approval, and reporting into one workflow.
Most in-house legal teams are involved at every stage of the contract lifecycle. But insight rarely travels between those stages. Risk signals get buried. Approvals stall. Leadership asks questions that take days to answer.
In this session, Shaun Plant and Josie Norris from LawVu show how contract intelligence changes that – creating a continuous thread from first draft to final decision, so legal teams can move faster without increasing exposure.
What you’ll learn:

What contract intelligence really means across legal workflows and why it’s a workflow capability, not a feature
How drafting, review, approval, and reporting connect when intelligence is applied consistently
Where delays and risk typically enter the process and how to close those gaps
How to surface insights that support faster approvals and better leadership decisions
How in-house teams are scaling impact without adding headcount

AI for In-House Legal: Build, Buy, or Both?
2026-06-25 08:00 - 09:00 (Pacific/Auckland)
General-purpose AI like Claude, Copilot, and ChatGPT has changed what legal teams can do in a day. But on its own, it works without your context, your governance, or your team’s hard-won decisions.
In this session, we’ll look honestly at where general AI delivers, where it falls short for legal work, and what changes when you connect it to a purpose-built legal operating system. Using LawVu’s MCP server as a live example, we’ll show how pairing the AI you already use with your legal operating system takes you from baseline efficiency to a genuine 10x.
What you’ll learn:

Where general AI tools genuinely help legal teams and the risks of relying on them alone
Why a connected LegalOS is the foundation that makes AI safe, accurate, and useful
How to pair the AI tools you already use with your legal data via LawVu’s MCP server for faster answers and smarter token use that keeps costs down
What “10x” looks like in practice, through real use cases and a live demo

The future of in-house legal
2026-06-25 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
The gap between where legal needs to go – and its ability to get there
Legal’s role is changing faster than ever. Business leaders expect legal to move with greater speed, influence strategic decisions, and deliver measurable business value – all while managing increasing complexity with limited resources.
In this on-demand webinar, three of the profession’s leading voices join Legal Leaders to explore what it really takes for in-house legal teams to bridge the gap between today’s demands and tomorrow’s expectations.
Drawing on decades of leadership experience, they share practical perspectives on building trust, demonstrating value, and leading transformation that lasts.
In this webinar, you’ll learn:

Why trust, not organizational structure or reporting lines – is the foundation of legal’s influence
How leading legal teams are reframing their value around business outcomes, speed, and impact
What separates successful legal transformation from initiatives that fail to gain traction
The trade-offs today’s legal leaders are making to balance risk, resources, and business expectations
Practical lessons from leaders who are redefining the future of in-house legal

Whether you’re leading a legal function, driving legal operations, or preparing your team for what’s next, this conversation offers actionable insights into the shifts reshaping the profession.
Watch the webinar on demand and discover how leading legal teams are closing the gap between where legal is today and where it needs to be.

Drafting & Reviewing Contracts with AI
2026-07-09 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York)
The problem: Every legal team is being told that AI will transform contract work while also hearing cautionary tales about lawyers who relied on it too heavily. Between the hype and the horror stories, there is little practical guidance on what AI can actually do well in day-to-day contract drafting and review.
What this session covers: We’ll explore where AI can improve contract drafting and review, and where it falls short. You will learn a framework for identifying risks in AI-generated outputs and prompting techniques for achieving more reliable results, illustrated through live demonstrations in LawVu Draft using real-world contract examples.
What you’ll gain: Learn how to distinguish useful AI outputs from risky ones, apply a practical framework for evaluating AI-generated content, and use prompting techniques that work across tools.

AI Prompting Masterclass for In-House Counsel: Better Prompts for Contract Work
2026-08-17 12:00 - 13:30 (America/New_York)
AI tools are becoming the default for drafting, reviewing, and analyzing contracts — but the difference between a useful result and an unreliable one is almost always the prompt. Most lawyers are learning this the hard way: prompts that feel clear to a human return output that misses context, misses precedent, or confidently hallucinates.
Join us as Maarten Truyens, Legal Software Engineer at LawVu, and Senne Mennes, Solutions Consultant at LawVu, walk through how LLMs actually interpret legal prompts, how to structure prompts for drafting, reviewing, and redlining contracts, and how to give AI the context, constraints, and role it needs to return reliable output — with live examples from real contract scenarios.
What you’ll learn:

How LLMs actually interpret and respond to legal prompts — and the specific patterns where they go wrong on contract work
How to structure prompts for drafting, reviewing, and redlining contracts so you get useful, reliable output the first time
How to give AI the right context, constraints, and role assignment to consistently produce work you can rely on
The most common prompting mistakes in-house lawyers make on contract AI — and the specific fixes that turn bad outputs into good ones
Live examples using real contract scenarios so you can see the difference between a mediocre prompt and one that actually works

Who should watch:
This program is designed for in-house counsel, contracts managers, legal operations professionals, and members of corporate legal teams who work regularly with contracts and want meaningfully better results from AI — with no technical background required.
