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Highlights from the Alternative In-House Technology Summit 2020.  Theme 1: How to develop a culture for change and innovation.

The Lawyer Horizon newsletter of 10 February 2020 by Catrin Griffiths highlighted the number of lateral moves made by legal operations professionals, including Sarah Barrett-Vane, in an article covering changes within John Lewis. “As New Law providers continue to focus…

I’m very much looking forward to attending Thomson Reuters’ Legal and Technology Procurement Conference in London on 5 November 2019. I will be hosting the panel session: “Choosing the best procurement strategy for your in-house law department” - speaking to…

This article was originally published on the Thomson Reuters Practical Law website on 17 September 2019. Click here for original article. How Legal Project Management can help In-house Lawyers "This note examines the application of legal project management (LPM) principles…

I am very pleased to be presenting at the PM Forum annual conference on 26 September 2019. The title of my presentation is "Bursting the bubble of procurement – more than just crunching the numbers" and is aimed at the…

Legal operations is key in corporate legal departments and Sarah Barrett-Vane is passionate about bringing together people, processes and technology to change the way in-house teams work. Sarah has some simple, but effective advice for in-house teams looking to implement…

At a time when Requests for Proposals (RFPs) are on the rise, and firms are increasingly being asked to bid competitively for work, Sarah Barrett-Vane asks: Is procurement about more than simply crunching the numbers? Bursting the Bubble of Procurement.…

Sarah Barrett-Vane will be one of the lineup of speakers at the HighQ Forum London 2019 on Thursday 23 May 2019. At the event, corporate legal teams will discover how legal technology empowers new, intelligent ways to work. This single-day,…

Optimising legal services delivery – Legal Operations and the business of law As 2018 began to wind down and at F-LEX we looked ahead to the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC) London Institute in January 2019, F-LEX co-founder and CEO,…

I was invited to join a panel discussion held at Walker Morris’s offices in Leeds in October 2018, chaired by Georgina Stanley, Editor of Legal 500. The discussion centered on the role of lawyers and legal teams in managing risk.…