David Rueff serves as the Chief Client Solutions Group Officer of Baker Donelson and oversees a team of 25 professionals who provide support for legal project management, budgeting, pricing, knowledge management, machine learning, AI, data, legal research and supporting technologies. David is also a Shareholder with Baker Donelson and has been a practicing attorney for over 20 years in both litigation and commercial transactions. He was responsible for launching one of the first Legal Project Management Offices in 2011 and has lead the development of several of Baker Donelson's proprietary process/technology solutions for LPM, budgeting, pricing and process improvement. He has also worked with in-house legal departments to develop programs for improved outside counsel management and operations and assisted the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium with the development of their in-house LPM model. He is a regular speaker on innovation and the use of technology in legal practice and was the co-author of The Power of Legal Project Management published by the ABA in 2014 as well as other books and articles.
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Member, ILTA/PMI Collaboration Team
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Speaker: ILTA 2011 - Annual Educational Conference, Legal Project Management
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Speaker: ILTA 2013 - Annual Educational Conference, Innovative Law Firm Award Nominee Presentations
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Speaker: ILTA 2013 - Annual Educational Conference, Alternative Rocks! Non-Traditional Approaches to LPM
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Speaker: ILTACON 2015 - Annual Educational Conference, A Project Management Principles/Process Toolkit
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Speaker: ILTACON 2016 Annual Educational Conference, From the Front Lines: Actual Jobs in "New Law"
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Speaker: ILTACON 2016 Annual Educational Conference, Legal Operations: Different Approaches and Helpful Technology Tools
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Speaker: ILTACON 2016 Annual Educational Conference, A New Approach To Aligning the Objectives of Outside Counsel, In-House Legal and Corporate Business
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Speaker: ILTACON 2017 Annual Educational Conference, Better, Faster, Cheaper: Finding and Removing Barriers to Legal Process Improvement
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Speaker: ILTACON 2019 Annual Educational Conference, Organizing for Innovation (Innovation Series Part 1 of 4)