Legal Operations | Xakia

General Counsel

General Counsel

Xakia can help you manage deadlines, business client questions and administrative demands. And most importantly, we help you prove value and keep your executive team and board informed about critical risk matters.

Legal Operations

Legal operations

Xakia can help you deploy resources strategically to support the company’s goals and safeguard it from risk, all while protecting the bottom line.

Small Legal Departments

Small Legal Departments

Regardless of your in-house counsel’s size, Xakia’s software will empower you to provide the best legal services possible in the most efficient and effective way.

With legal operations, you can:

Show how the in-house legal counsel is supporting corporate objectives.
Keep your team focused on matters that support and impact company priorities. Then, show your value through automated reports with analytics that speak the language of your internal clients.
Build a happier, more productive team.
Eliminate guesswork when it comes to each project by giving each person visibility to the status of the project and ensure tasks have been quickly and appropriately assigned.
Control your budget.
Actively managing and tracking your budget in real-time means you can adjust resources and projects to support your priorities.
Create faster and more meaningful reports.
Remove the burden of administrative tasks by automating the process and produce analytics reports that your organization’s leadership can easily understand.

Workflow Management

Legal Team Management

External Resource Management

Financial Management

Data Analytics

Knowledge Management

Technology Tools

Communications

Legal Work Streams

Strategic Planning

Workflow Management

Workflow Management

Success identifiers:

Standard, central information collection
Triaging of work through one or more legal contact points
“Self-help” tools such as frequently asked questions on your organizations intranet

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Legal Team Management

Legal Team Management

Success identifiers:

KPIs align with organization and team strategy
Continuing legal education opportunities
Development plans that support individual growth in areas that are of benefit to your organization

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External Resource Management

External Resource Management

Success identifiers:

Identified quality and value
Developed strategic relationships

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Financial Management

Financial Management

Success identifiers:

Budgets set and monitored for individual engagements
Documented and enforced billing guidelines
Tracked annual budgets to ensure the root cause for any overrun is understood in order to introduce initiatives to rectify the overrun

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Data Analytics

Data Analytics

Success identifiers:

Captured data is automated into simple formats for sharing
Decision makers utilize data to understand the department
Resourcing decisions are data driven

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Knowledge Management

Knowledge Management

Success identifiers:

Access to free law firm and alternative legal service provider publications
Use of free online knowledge services
Availability of up to date precedent documents
Making sure people know their team members’ areas of expertise

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Technology Tools

Technology Tools

Success identifiers:

External consultants have analyzed your needs to provide recommendations
Implemented technology tools strategically fit business needs

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Communications

Communications

Success identifiers:

Current department work and resourcing is effectively communicated
Business unit executives receive established reports to understand where the legal department is providing support
Senior executives/boards receive reports that highlight key work and risk areas being managed by the legal department.

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Legal Work Streams

Legal Work Streams

Success identifiers:

Resource intensive work is data-validated from a risk or strategy perspective
Standardized precedent agreements and clear definitions for permitted changes for recurring work
A developed playbook for approvals in order to manage risk

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Strategic Planning

Strategic Planning

Processes to consider:

Strategy is tailored to the unique business context, goals, risks, and operating environment
High value impact areas are clearly identified making the purpose of the work clear

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