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Tips and Tricks
Hacks for the In-House Lawyer’s Most Precious Resource: Time
Some small tweaks to work habits can save you valuable time and resources. Here are some of our favorites – and most impactful – that focus on time.
Tips and Tricks
In-House Legal Workloads are Growing: Can Small Hacks Help?
Imagine if in-house lawyers could find more time and productivity with a few tweaks to work habits. It's possible - check out these hacks for...
Tips and Tricks
Legal Department Budgets: Practical Tips from the Front Lines
It’s more important than ever to get the budget right. Jerry Sharum, VP Legal at Cribl provides straightforward advice for in-house lawyers this...
Matter Management
In-house legal resourcing – where size matters
40% of in-house legal work falls in the ‘extra small’ category, but only accounts for 1.6% of total LEGAL time spent. Imagine the unnecessary PROCESS...
Legal Data Analytics
Measuring in-house legal ROI on external counsel engagements
Whatever the reason for outsourcing legal work to external counsel, the costs must justify the choice relative to other resourcing options.
Legal Tech
Xakia and iManage - the perfect legal file
Xakia integrates with iManage for a seamless legal matter management workflow - it's the perfect wrapper to the documents on a legal matter. Learn...
Legal Budget
Tracking matter budgets
In-house legal budgets are only getting tighter. Here are 6 tips to help you manage your legal matters and external engagements and avoid budget...
About Xakia
Meet the team: Elodi Bodamer
Meet Elodi, our Chicago-based Marketing Manager who has a one year old dog named Bowen, and had Taylor Swift speak at her graduation!
Tips and Tricks
Lessons for small Legal Departments: Productivity insights from Kate Sherburn at Who Gives A Crap
Kate Sherburn, Legal Counsel at Who Gives A Crap shares insights and lessons learned and provides some tips on overcoming challenges in a small Legal...
Legal Budget
Make the Most of a Small Legal Budget
For small corporate legal departments, their budget may have fewer zeroes than a large team, but the pressure to deliver with minuscule resources is...
About Xakia
Jodie's Jigsaw - The Frame
The frame can be the most tedious part of a puzzle. However, it's always the place to start, setting up the puzzle for a beautiful picture to emerge...
Legal Budget
Legal Spend Management: Help Your Law Firms Help You
3 tips to help you better direct your law firms and prevent legal budget overruns, surprise invoices and hours spent reviewing and contesting...
Tips and Tricks
Tips for Legal Department Budgets in 2023-24: Three Key Considerations
How can you prepare for the year ahead, amid stagnant budgets, growing workloads, and economic uncertainty? Here are three tips for an in-house legal...
Legal Operations
Viva Las Vegas! A recap of CLOC 2023
Well funded CLM companies made for lots of Sin City parties, but is that star fading in favor of AI? Will ChatGPT host all the fancy parties next...
Legal Department
Three Ways the Legal Department is Crucial to Company Success
In-house lawyers rarely get the spotlight they deserve, but there are three ways the Legal Department is critical to the success of every...
Legal Budget
Five essentials of legal spend management
Keen to get started in legal spend management but it seems overwhelming? Take a crash course in what, why and how with five quick steps to get you...
About Xakia
Hip, hip, hooray! Xakia turns 7 today
The Xakia legal matter management software is growing up so fast! On 7th June 2023, we turn 7 - check out our infographic for some fun facts about...
Tips and Tricks
How (and why) Legal Departments demonstrate value
The problem isn’t that lawyers fail to give sound advice: the business doesn’t understand their contribution. Legal Departments can demonstrate value...
Legal Data Analytics
Legal Reporting: Observations from Consero's Healthcare GC Forum 2023
The desire among Healthcare GCs for legal teams to become a strategic (and valued) partner to the business was paramount. Legal reporting is key.