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...
LexisNexis® CounselLink+™ is a feature-rich legal solution for the corporate law department. It unites enterprise legal management software and an extensive contract lifecycle management application in one comprehensive platform. Other applications within...
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...
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 runs...
In corporate law departments, legal operations strategy requires advanced preparation, attention and critical thinking to showcase value to the enterprise. In fact, when legal operations professionals are in sync with legal operations strategy, the law department...
In legal ops, managers look for simple legal billing software to pave the way to efficiency and cost-saving strategies in the legal department. E-billing software has been around for decades in many permutations. As the years come and go, technology vendors have...
In-house legal and law operations teams continuously face challenges due to various factors. Each team manages daily issues and must also be prepared for the singular issue that draws all hands on deck. Lawyers want to practice law without concern for law operations...
Law operations, legal operations, law department, legal department, in-house counsel, outside counsel, and many other things go hand-in-hand in the practice of law and the delivery of legal services between corporate legal departments and law firms. Legal Operations...
Year-end planning with an eye on cost-cutting strategies for legal departments requires a look at historical data and a look ahead to forecast costs, anticipated matters, talent acquisition, technology procurement, and more. One obvious place to explore cost...
In the in-house corporate legal department, two sides comprise the whole: legal services with in-house lawyers and the legal operations team. The latter is the business side of processes and technology that help streamline collaboration and workflow. While legal...
In a recent blog post , we discussed what is legal intake in the corporate law department. In today’s article, we look more closely at the benefits of legal intake for the legal team and legal operations professionals. Legal teams, generally, manage a variety...