Solving your pain points doesn't need to cost a bomb. If you’re struggling with spreadsheets a better way awaits. Download our In-house Modern Matter Management eBook now.
By 2025, Legal Departments will triple their spend on technology. Here are three critical steps to ensuring your legal tech matches your business needs.
As corporate legal teams shop for LegalTech solutions, it's important to understand the rationale behind “Build vs. Buy” to make an effective decision.
A strategic plan is the best way to ensure your Legal Department is positioned to handle evolving challenges. Download our whitepaper and template to get started.
Why should Legal Departments make strategic plans? According to the Association of Corporate Counsel’s Legal Operations Maturity Model Toolkit, there are five primary reasons to engage in strategic planning.
Legal departments that proactively pause to plan for the “new normal” will be better prepared for the transition, be better equipped to handle non-COVID work, and will weather what promises to be another strange year with less stress.
When it comes to legal operations, there are many straightforward steps you can take that will take little time and cost no extra money, but pay ample dividends in terms of expedience and sanity.
It’s Q4 2020 - which means it's time for budgets, planning, and predictions for the year ahead. When it comes to legal operations, we can share a forecast based on data.
Xakia shares the results of the Legal Operations Health Check, the most practical look yet at how Legal Departments are evolving their Legal Department tools, policies and procedures.
We recommend straightforward tactics to help you become more effective and efficient – a legal operations plan to thrive during and after the coronavirus.
As a practice management system, Agile offers legal departments improved collaboration, expedience and communication. Learn how it can work for your in-house legal team.
Your Legal Intake & Triage framework can borrow a few best practices from the school of queue management – the study of how humans behave in line for a bank teller, an airline check-in counter or….a roller coaster.
This blog will address the ins and outs of legal intake – and how a few adjustments to the process can improve your legal operations, service and morale.
This blog series will address the art and science of legal reporting by audience. In this article, we'll look at reporting for the Legal Department itself.
In part 3 of this blog series, we’ll cover legal analytics data and reports for legal team management - namely, the chief legal officer, general counsel, deputy general counsel or head of legal operations.
Reporting gives legal departments an opportunity to connect with your stakeholders and share critical information. In this blog, we’ll cover your organization’s top leaders: the CEO and board.
In this blog article, we'll address the art and science of legal reporting by audience. In short, who needs to know what? First up: your business unit clients.
The Xakia team has created a guide to make legal data analytics accessible for Legal Departments of all sizes and lawyer of all backgrounds. Download In-House Legal Data Analytics for Beginners now.
The what - calls to your Legal Department’s output: What exactly do you do around here? A smart collection and classification of your legal work will help you identify opportunities for improvement.
According to Xakia’s Legal Operations Health Check, nearly half of corporate Legal Departments are working without a formal plan. It's important to have a legal strategy in place - read on to find out more.
Two-thirds to three-quarters of large organizations struggle to implement their strategies. Download Xakia’s ready-to-use Legal Department Strategic Plan Template now to get started.
More money, more problems? For small Legal Departments, the opposite may be true: While their budgets may have fewer zeroes than their larger counterparts, the pressure to deliver with fewer people and fewer resources is huge.
As consumers of legal services know, when the outside counsel spend is governed by hourly billing, it’s inherently hard to predict, as it can vary with the phase of a project, the demands of the other side, even the habits and styles of the lawyers involved.
Budget season approaches – and soon it will be time to turn your attention from the law to the ledger. The next few months will be a critical time to request and allocate resources for the year ahead.
Measuring ROI may seem pretty straight-forward, but with legal technology, this can get a little nebulous. Read our blog to find out how you can measure legal technology ROI.
Since Xakia launched the Legal Operations Health Check, in-house counsel on five continents have completed the online assessment. Two months later, their responses provide a quantitative look at the real state of legal operations in departments of all sizes.
As you explore legal tech solutions, it’s imperative to get buy-in from your IT department. You are more likely to succeed if you understand the IT team’s concerns and go in prepared. We provide 10 questions to get you started.
Four practical tips for Legal Departments to make the most of the lessons and expertise delivered at the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium’s 2018 Conference
Legal operations provides a surprisingly straightforward solution: Track your activity, measure its strategic value, and make smart, data-driven change.
Regardless of size, all in-house teams want to provide the best legal services to their organizations in the most efficient and effective manner. That's the basic objective behind legal operations, and you don't have to be in a monolithic corporation to get there.
A recent survey by the ACC asked in-house lawyers a simple question: Is your department spend within budget? 37 percent said no. Read the blog to learn more.
Whether you are among the 61% of U.S. law departments that report directly to the CEO or whether your relationship is more dotted-line, it’s important to know what your executives and boards value most – and how you can leverage legal operations to bolster your most important work relationships.
In this blog, we look at how senior corporate counsel approach legal team management. We also include a useful checklist and set of interview questions for in-house lawyer recruitment.
Is the value added by a legal team defined by cost savings, value of matters worked on and risk avoided, or by the achievement of an organisation's strategic goals?
