Championing CI: Unpacking 2025's Successes

Sponsored by: LMA Competitive Intelligence SIG
Domain: Business Development
BoK Competency: Competitive Intelligence

Join the LMA Competitive Intelligence SIG for the third edition of this program, focused on CI project highlights from the prior year. Competitive Intelligence professionals from multiple firms will share a CI project they worked on last year, how they accomplished it, and its impact on the business. Attendees are encouraged to share their own real-life examples of successful or well-received CI projects that took place last year. 

Learning Outcomes:

• Identify and compare a cross-firm benchmark of legal CI at various firms and identify the typical CI project types, as well as tools and resources used.
• Discuss current challenges and common pitfalls in CI project implementations.
• Identify 2–3 concrete improvements to apply immediately to their own CI programs and research.
  
  

Facilitators:
Neil Barbieri, Senior Manager, Research & Competitive Intelligence, Venable LLP
Benjamin Brighoff, Senior Manager of Competitive Intelligence, Foley & Lardner LLP 
Michele Gernhardt, Strategic Research and Competitive Intelligence Manager, Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
Steven Medley, Senior Market Intelligence Manager, Sidley Austin LLP
Louise Tsang, Associate Director of Competitive Intelligence, Cooley LLP