Leveraging Data Analytics: Getting More Done, without Doing More

Lisa Girmscheid has been managing legal operations at Rockwell Automation since 2005. Rockwell Automation is a Fortune 500 company and is one of the world's largest providers of industrial automation. Lisa's role at Rockwell Automation encompasses the full gamut of legal department operations. She designs, implements and manages technology around ebilling, matter management, intellectual property management, collaboration, document management, and entity management. Besides leading the team on technology projects, she manages outside counsel spending, oversees internal budgets and forecasts and finds creative process solutions.

Since 2005, Lisa has endeavored to meet the General Counsel's ultimate goal: to be an "information enabled" department. Rockwell Automation is a global company, doing business in over 80 countries. Consequently, the legal department is spread out over 4 regions, making it critical they stay connected regardless of the time zone. The technology put in place since 2005 has not only made this department "information enabled," it has allowed this team to be truly global in its ability to collaborate, share documents, and manage matters and outside counsel spending.

Lisa is the liaison between her department and over 200 law firms worldwide. Collecting data from systems and turning it into usable metrics has allowed her department to manage costs while continually keeping an eye on quality of service and appropriate staffing, both inside and outside the department. By having these systems in place, the department is able to negotiate alternative fee arrangements that cover over 50% of their outside counsel spend.

Prior to joining the company, she spent 14 years working in a similar capacity at a large insurance company's legal staff attorney office. Lisa is a member of the International Legal Technology Association's Law Department Steering Committee.

Javier Robles is the Senior Vice President and the Group Chief Compliance Officer at News Corp.

John Albright, HUB International Limited’s Chief Legal Officer, joined the Executive Management Team in May 2014. Albright is a seasoned, business-focused executive with 20 years of legal and commercial management experience in public, private and private equity-owned company and large law firm settings. While serving as the general counsel for several multinational corporations in complex and vastly different market segments, Albright amassed a record of building and leading highly efficient legal departments that effectively supported the achievement of commercial objectives.

Prior to accepting his current role of CLO at HUB International, Albright served as Senior Vice President, Global Legal and Compliance for Information Resources, Inc., a billion dollar data, technology and market research company with operations in 14 countries. Albright also worked as General Counsel for Accenture HR Services, Inc., an HR outsourcing joint venture that was ultimately acquired by Accenture during his tenure, and as both Division Counsel and Intellectual Property Counsel for Network Solutions, Inc., a large internet products and services company. In this latter role, Albright supported the $21 billion sale of Network Solutions (then a public company) to Verisign, Inc.

Albright began his legal career as an intellectual property and technology attorney with both Alston & Bird and Finnegan Henderson, focusing on complex litigation before state and Federal courts and the United States International Trade Commission.

Albright earned a BME in Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, before pursuing his JD at Vanderbilt University Law School.

Brian McGovern is Mitratech’s Executive Director. In this role, Brian has worked with over 100 of the largest and best run legal departments in the world around their technology, process and people.

Prior to Mitratech McGovern served as Senior Vice President, Chief Data Officer, Legal Operations at American International Group, Inc. where he led the transformation of the company’s legal operations department and played a critical role in creating the organization, processes and technology architecture that reduced AIG’s legal spend by over $1.2 billion dollars. In that, role, McGovern was the key business sponsor for the largest e-Billing Matter Management software roll out in the world, an industry leading innovator for legal reporting and analytics, data governance, business process management, and legal procurement.

Prior to legal operations, McGovern served as the company’s Vice President and Global Head of Implementation and Process Performance Management where he led cross-functional teams to dramatically improve business processes in multiple functional areas, including legal, information technology, procurement and human resources.

Prior to AIG, McGovern served in executive-level positions with Merrill Lynch, GE and Credit Suisse.

McGovern has been honored with the ACC Value Champions Award in 2015 and by NY Law Journal as an Outstanding In-House Legal Department. He is a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt, and holds two patents with the United States Patent Office. In his spare time, he serves a variety of non-profits in his community