Editor's Note: For a thorough understanding of ELM software, review of Enterprise Legal Management for Corporate Law Departments and What Is ELM Software ? As a complement, review Contract Lifecycle Management Overview for Legal Departments . Legal Operations...
Introduction A modern law department depends on more than lawyers; it requires a functioning legal ecosystem . This interconnected network includes in-house counsel, legal operations teams, outside vendors, business leaders, and technology providers, all working...
Summary Every legal department is charged with enhancing value. It’s an esoteric thing, but highly doable with the right strategic services partnership. In this article, we explore the types of strategic services offered by LexisNexis® CounselLink®...
Summary In the law department, workflow defines efficiency, collaboration and productivity. Every task has an associated workflow with steps to accomplish the end result. How is a legal workflow defined, and what is a legal workflow designed to do? Beyond defining...
Legal departments require efficient workflow to ensure productive and streamlined work output. Which areas are positioned well for automation in a legal department? In this blog post, we explore several key steps in automating legal workflows and the role enterprise...
Summary Legal spend continues to rise, but industry experts have identified proven strategies to maintain control without compromising quality. This article presents actionable tactics from seasoned legal operations professionals at GEICO and OGE Energy Corp...
Legal departments are under pressure to perform like any other business function: efficient, data-driven and strategically aligned. But behind every dashboard, metric and matter workflow are people. If you’re serious about running legal like a business, the...
In the law department, legal metrics provide the foundation for measuring value, success, performance, and a range of other criteria. As quantitative measurements, legal metrics evaluate the effectiveness of legal operations across various indicators. What Are...
The hybrid workforce continues, yet back-to-work policies are more prevalent in the law department and other places of work. The role of the legal operations professional to ensure cohesive style guidelines among all employees, staff, vendors, and other services...
How does a company define the best corporate legal department? Good, better and best are subjective unless there are defined metrics across various criteria to define best. The criteria to determine high-performing legal departments typically include qualitative...
Legal ebilling software is a necessary application for law departments, especially in this era of technology advancements that streamline, clarify and simplify workflow and bill review software . Other benefits of e-billing systems include increased accuracy...
By LexisNexis® CounselLink® One of the biggest headaches that in-house counsel grapple with is how to effectively manage their organization’s vast universe of contracts — from complex commercial transactions to routine vendor agreements. Contract...
Internal and external factors affect legal department operations challenges every day. The evolving legal landscape prompts navigation around these complexities to maintain efficiency and effectiveness. Key Legal Department Operations Challenges Budget Constraints...
Mature legal departments use data to drive strategic decision-making, but how should legal team metrics be set up and measured? Enterprise legal management software is a technology that runs a corporate legal department. It helps deliver the data from legal team...
Summary Behind every good law department is an equally good legal operations team, but what critical roles do they play? These silent partners to the legal team provide a plethora of roles and responsibilities, the most of which is to ensure that the legal department...