Past Winners
2008 InnovAction Winners
2008 InnovAction Winners!
Global law firm, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, Australian firm Mallesons Stephen Jaques, and global legal services firm Novus Law LLC are the 2008 recipients of the coveted InnovAction Awards from the College of Law Practice Management.
For the fourth year, the InnovAction Awards have recognized outstanding innovation in the delivery of legal services, demonstrating to the legal community what can happen when passionate professionals, with big ideas and strong convictions, resolve to create effective change.
Meet our winners!
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
ValueChain Outsourcing Methodology for Visual Contracting
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP was selected for its ValueChain outsourcing methodology. ValueChain is a unique system that visually displays client objectives, capabilities, opportunities and risks to Pillsbury lawyers. This helps the lawyers better understand the impact on clients’ business of outsourcing business functions such as HR, customer service, and IT accounting, as well as how the outsourcing of such operations can best be designed and structured. Pillsbury was recently granted a business method patent for ValueChain by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO).
Mallesons Stephen Jaques
PeopleFinder
Mallesons Stephen Jaques of Sydney, Australia was honored for PeopleFinder, the technological spearhead of ClientFirst, a program of continuous improvements to the firm’s standards of client service. PeopleFinder gives individuals who contact Mallesons using a BlackBerry the ability to determine whether the person they’re calling is available, and if not, when and where they can be found. PeopleFinder has rerouted more than 10,000 phone calls per month from voice mail to a person who can provide assistance. Mallesons also won an InnovAction Award in 2007 for its TalentNet initiative.
Novus Law, LLC
Document the E-Discovery Process from Collection to Production
For the first time in InnovAction’s history, an award was given to a non-law firm — in this case, a company that provides services to law firms and corporate legal departments. Novus Law, LLC, was selected for its documentation of the e-discovery process. Novus developed a program that documents and captures the e-discovery process (a significant cost in litigation) to give clients, attorneys and courts a reliable, predictable and defensible method for efficiently completing an important part of the litigation process.
'The five InnovAction judges were greatly impressed by the groundbreaking ideas in the submissions from law firm and companies in the United States, Europe, Asia and Australasia", said Chuck Coulter, an attorney with Stanley, Lande & Hunter, and Past President of the College and co-chair of the 2008 awards program. You can check out the Executive Summaries from some of the entries we received this year by clicking here.
The 2008 InnovAction Awards will be presented on Saturday, September 13, 2008, at a special session to be held during the Annual Meeting of the College of Law Practice Management in Chicago, Illinois. Please click here for the complete press release on the 2008 InnovAction Winners.
