Who doesn't like to be recognized and rewarded for a job well done? Especially if the kudos and hat tips are coming from peers, collegues and influencers within the legal profession. While we all seem to have the best intentions when it comes to promoting our own good deeds and innovations, we usually end up focused on the 'daily grindstone' stuff (aka looking at our feet vs. the sky). Well thanks to the College of Law Practice Management's (COLPM) annual InnovAction awards (which are now open for entries), any legal professional or legal organization can show off their greatest legal 'game changers' and shoot for the stars. InnovAction chair Tim Corcoran provides the award skinny on his blog plus we've included the corresponding press release below. Any and all award details can be found on the InnovAction Award site and specific award and eligibility questions will be gladly addressed by Tim Corcoran.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
2013 InnovAction Awards Now Open for Nominations
The College of Law Practice Management to
recognize innovation and ingenuity in law practice
Denver, CO, May
8, 2013 - The College of Law Practice
Management (COLPM), an international organization that recognizes excellence in
law practice management, is calling for entries for its 2013 InnovAction Awards,
a worldwide recognition of lawyers, law firms, law departments and other legal
service providers that have innovated and successfully applied new business practices
to the delivery of legal services. Since the award’s inception in 2004, 22 InnovAction
award winners have been crowned including 15 law firms as well as law schools,
not-for-profits and legal service providers. Submissions for the 2013 InnovAction Awards will
be accepted until June 30, 2013.
The goal of the InnovAction Awards is to demonstrate to the legal
community what can be created when dedicated professionals with big ideas and
strong convictions are determined to make a difference. Any individual lawyer
or law firm (locally or globally), or any business providing services to
lawyers, law firms or consumers of legal services, is eligible to submit an
award application. Recipients of the 2012 InnovAction Awards include Littler
Mendelson, PC and Seyfarth Shaw LLP. Prior winners are listed in the InnovAction ‘Hall of Fame’.
“The InnovAction Award recognizes creativity as well as genuine
and disruptive ways of thinking when it comes to legal services delivery
worldwide,” said COLPM President Ron Staudt. “We know that innovation fuels
solutions that help solve the business challenges faced by law firms and legal
professionals and are proud to recognize those at the forefront of this change.”
All award entries are reviewed and judged by a panel of five COLPM
Fellows. This year, a past InnovAction Award winner will join the judging panel
plus the legal community will vote online to serve as the 7th judge.
This crowd-sourcing component will allow legal professionals to participate and
vote for their favorite submission online.
InnovAction Award entries will be judged on the following four
primary criteria:
- Disruption:
Does this entry change an important element of the legal services process for
the better, and marketplace expectations along with it?
- Value:
Is the client and/or legal industry better off, in terms of the affordability,
ease, relevance or its effect on legal services?
- Effectiveness:
Has this entry delivered real, demonstrable or measurable benefits, for the
provider, its clients, or the marketplace generally?
- Originality:
Is this a novel idea or approach, or a new twist on an existing idea or
approach?
“We are thrilled to continually
recognize legal innovators with the InnovAction Award and invite the legal
community’s thought leaders and influencers to participate in the process,”
stated Tim Corcoran, Chair of the 2013 Awards and principal, Corcoran
Consulting Group. “Applicants should take some time to reflect on what
differentiates them … What approaches have you employed this year that have
produced fantastic results? What efforts have resulted in higher client
satisfaction? Generated more leads? Provided a substantial number of people
with access to justice? Or improved operational efficiency or service quality?”
Further information about the awards, past winners, eligibility rules,
sponsorship information and entry forms are available at the InnovAction
Award website.
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About COLPM
The College of Law Practice
Management (COLPM) is a not-for-profit organization formed in 1994 to honor and
recognize distinguished law practice management professionals, to set standards
of achievement for others in the profession, and to fund and assist projects
that enhance the highest quality of law practice management. The COLPM and its
Fellows inspire excellence and innovation in law practice management by honoring
extraordinary achievement; developing, exchanging and disseminating knowledge,
and stimulating innovation in the delivery of legal services.
About 2013 InnovAction Awards
The COLPM continues its global
search for ingenuity in law practice management. Designed to inspire creative
thinking in a field known for its over-reliance on precedent, the InnovAction Awards
are intended not only to identify effective innovation but also to inspire it
through international recognition. Since its inception in 2004, 22 legal
organizations including law firms, not-for-profits, legal service providers and
law schools have received the annual InnovAction award.
About 2013 InnovAction Award Sponsors
The 2013 InnovAction Awards are sponsored by the following
organizations and companies with a passion for innovation including:
- Platinum Sponsors:
Attorney at Work, Greenfield/Belser Ltd.,InsideLegal.com, Practical Law Company
- Gold Sponsors: ABA Law Practice Management
Section, International Legal Technology Association (ILTA)
- Silver Sponsors: Altman Weil, Inc., Association
of Legal Administrators and Legal Marketing Association
