Michael Boutot
Michael Boutot writes on
litigation management
for IRMI.com.
Mr. Boutot was a member of the National Association of Insurance Litigation
Management for 6 years and served on their Board of Advisors for 2 years. In
July 2002 he became one of the originating founders of International Litigation
Management Association (ILMA) and served as its president and chairman of the
board. In 2008 he was influential in orchestrating the merger between the ILMA
and the Council on Ethical Billing (CEB). Mr. Boutot served as the president
of the CLM as well as chairman of the Board of Advisors until early 2009.
In May 2009, he founded the Institute for Church Safety & Risk Management,
L.L.C. (ICSARM). ICSARM is comitted to assisting churches and para-church organizations
in assessing their safety, security, insurance, litigation management, and risk
management exposures.
With over 20 years of experience in the insurance claims industry, he has
extensive experience in litigation management and the creation of litigation
management standards and guidelines.
Mr. Boutot has served on several task forces and organizations for the purpose
of standardizing litigation handling and legal billing guidelines. In 1998 he
was recognized in Who's Who of Professionals
for his role in the development of a revolutionary concept to legal invoice
and cost-containment called LEAMIS (Legal Expense, Audit & Management Information
System). He is a member of the Defense Research Institute, American Bar Association,
Risk & Insurance Management Society, the Trucking Industry Defense Association,
the Association of Legal Administrators, and several other key organizations.
He has published several articles relative to litigation and litigation management,
is a regular speaker at various insurance and legal conferences across the country.
Some of Mr. Boutot's work and efforts can be viewed on several websites that
he has either built or been involved with:
www.LitigationManagement.org
www.churchriskmanagement.org
http://go.rims.org/churchrisk
www.Linkedin.com/e/vgh/1964397/
Articles on IRMI.com
Litigation Management
Litigation
Best Practices—Lessons from Risk Manager of the Year (August 2008)
The Three Pillars
of Litigation Management (February 2008)
Ethics in Legal
Billing (August 2007)
A Paradigm Shift
in Law Department Efficiency—Introducing the Law Department Consortium (June
2006)
Legal Billing—Is
There a Change in the Wind? (December 2005)
Court Reporting/Deposition
Services: What You Should Know (January 2005)
Litigation Management—Proactive
or Reactive Budgeting? (November 2004)
Adjusters Are from
Mars, Attorneys Are from Venus (May 2004)
The Evolution of
Litigation Management: Establishing a Legal PPO (February 2004)
If It Ain't Broke,
It Ain't Being Used (November 2003)
Establishing a
Preferred Legal Services Provider Network (August 2003)
How To Overhaul
Your Panel Counsel Network (May 2003)
A Paradigm Shift
to True Litigation Management (August 2002)