Management - Making Your Legal Department a Successful Business Unit - Showing the Value Your Group Brings to Your Company

Martin English, Sales Director – Serengeti (EMEA), Thomson Reuters, United Kingdom

1. How legal departments are applying project management principles to improve the management of legal work (uniform retention guidelines, project plans, budgets, monitoring progress, assessing results, applying lessons learned, etc.) 2. The latest trends and best practices for controlling outside legal spending (consolidating legal work with the top performers, monitoring project teams, considering alternative fee structures, evaluating performance, etc.) 3. Using metrics and reporting to show improvement, as well as the value that the legal department brings to the company (examples of metrics that law departments should consider tracking, and reports that show performance improvement and value)

Martin English, Sales Director – Serengeti (EMEA) joined Thomson Reuters in February 2014 to lead the growth and development of Serengeti across the EMEA region. Prior to this he was Managing Director at Central Law Training. Previously he was at Practical Law where he headed up Global Sales. He is a non practicing solicitor, having qualified in Scotland at Brodies. He holds degrees in Commercial Law (LLM), Law (LLB) and Marketing (BA Hons). He also has a Diploma in Legal Practice and is a Notary Public. Prior to entering the legal profession, Martin spent 10 years in the technology sector.

Thomson Reuters Legal division provides unrivaled services and solutions that integrate content, technology and expertise to help legal professionals practise the law, manage their organisation and grow their business. Thomson Reuters creates connected tools and services to help our customers streamline their processes, collaborate with colleagues and clients and easily leverage critical information and insights. We offer solutions for legal research, current awareness and know-how, including Practical Law, Westlaw UK, Sweet & Maxwell, as well as a suite of software, workflow, practice and spend management tools, including Serengeti, Thomson Reuters Elite, FloSuite Legal and Solcara.