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Legal Operations

Out of the Weeds: How Data Visualization Drives Better Decisions

  Wolters Kluwer’s ELM Solutions’ Margie Sleboda and Nathan Cemenska discuss the powerful world of dashboard software and how it can help companies analyze and improve legal spend and operations. CCBJ: We frequently talk about how to use data and analytics in the modern corporate...

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Legal Operations

Will It Be Easy to Implement and Upgrade Your ELM Solution?

Legal departments should consider service and methodologies, as well as the technology itself. When corporate legal departments consider their options for enterprise legal management (ELM) systems and providers, it’s easy to focus on dazzling product demos. However, an ELM technology provider...

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General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

7 Steps to Compliance in Brave New GDPR World

Legal departments need to prepare for the new, sweeping EU data-privacy rules.  The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which takes effect on May 25, 2018, sets a high standard for data privacy that affects all companies that do business in the European Union (EU) or with its citizens....

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Legal Operations

Corporate Legal Departments, Expected to Be More Like Other Units, Face a Sea Change

Jonah Paransky of Wolters Kluwer’s ELM Solutions explains how law departments will deliver value with operational rigor. His remarks have been edited for length and style. CCBJ: How has the corporate legal department’s role expanded beyond its traditional responsibilities? Jonah...

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Legal Operations

Spend Management Solutions: Four to Focus on in 2018

There are four aspects of matter and spend management technology that legal department leaders should take a fresh look at. Spend and matter management technology is a core part of many legal department operations and is not new to most larger companies. But the fact that these tools are an...

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Artificial Intelligence

Building a Strong Spend Management Program: AI can help departments achieve better value from their legal spend

Outside counsel guidelines have become increasingly complex, requiring companies to pay special attention to both details and trends in billing. Our editors sat down with Linda Hovanec and Matt Kivlin of Wolters Kluwer's ELM Solutions, to talk about building a strong...

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Cybersecurity

Assessing Your Law Firms’ Cybersecurity Preparedness: Creating genuine partnerships to mitigate risks

Augustin Cal and David Sankar, both in product management at Wolters Kluwer’s ELM Solutions, have spent a good deal of time recently thinking about collaboration. And not just the kind that they bring to their workplace (and to this interview). It’s the kind that law firms and law...

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