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Corporate Counsel
How Legal Know-How Can Help Better Manage In-House Work And Outside Counsel
Law departments across the board are facing an unprecedented volume of legal work. Regulatory and compliance requirements are growing across all markets. Globalization is bringing with it everything from complicated intellectual property questions to increasing cross-border transactions. And...
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Transparency Brings New Questions To Compliance
In today’s supply chain, businesses must manage an increasing level of transparency and an emerging, somewhat amorphous set of ethical expectations. This network of emerging risk includes evolving standards around human rights, diversity, consumer protection, social inequality, vulnerable...
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Is Time On Your Side? Improve Efficiency, Increase Productivity
Everyone has the same 24-hour day, but the demands placed on that time are higher than ever before, especially for legal departments. To manage the pressure, legal departments now are implementing tools and leveraging services that increase efficiency and improve productivity. Most legal...
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Potential Technology Approaches For Contract Lawyers
In many ways, law departments’ delivery of contract management services is still like the Wild West – a lawless frontier. Within a single law department, approaches to managing contracts can differ wildly among practices or teams, if not among individual lawyers themselves. Some teams...
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What To Look For In An ELM Provider
Corporate legal departments face diverse challenges: providing effective counsel to internal clients, supervising outside counsel work and managing risk for the organization. And they generally must achieve these objectives within the constraints of limited internal resources and a fixed budget...
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Inside, Outside Or Outsource? Finding The Right Balance – A Survey Of Nearly 600 Corporate Counsel
Managing budgets is a task that few look forward to, and now even less so as pressures on law departments have been intensifying. Outside counsel costs are often a particular pain point. Outside counsel rates can be dizzying at times, and cases of greater complexity and duration have been known...
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Without Legal Spend And Matter Management Software, It’s Hard To Know What’s Going On In Your Legal Department
Increasingly, law departments must justify spend, show efficiency and demonstrate the value and savings to upper management just like other departments within a company. While accounts payable (A/P) software can report on basic spending categories, it is unable to track vital data that is...
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