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What Law Departments Need to Know About Billing Guidelines: A survey suggests that many departments have plenty of questions and concerns
Linda Hovanec is a senior director in product management, global business intelligence and analytics at Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions. Lately, she has been devoting a good deal of time to studying law departments’ billing processes. A recent survey that ELM Solutions collaborated on revealed...
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Give Me a Contract with a Side of Fries: How one firm is trying to advance the delivery of in-house legal services
When you order a meal at a restaurant, there’s a menu and a waiter to provide information, service and, if something goes wrong, accountability. It’s a pretty simple system, but it works. What happens when someone on the business side wants to order up something from the company’s...
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It's All About That Bill: Invoice review specialists explain why managing the bill improves relationships with providers
Legal bill reviewers are specialists who can help in-house counsel keep a close eye on the bottom line without spending all day poring over detailed invoice line items. Below, two legal billing and technology veterans, David Moran and Bill Sowinski of ELM Solutions, discuss the obvious, and not so...
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Tightening Up Links Drives Down Risks: Integrated infrastructure facilitates GRC-Legal compliance cooperation
Last year at Legaltech New York I spoke to an in-house attorney about one of her worst days on the job. She was hard at work on litigation related to a compliance breach. The breach had occurred because the compliance staff mistakenly believed that a particular regulation did not apply to their...
Read MoreInternal Data Meets External Metrics: Make big data more than a buzzword by benchmarking against industry peers
The benefits of big data can be obscured by the buzz surrounding the phrase itself. David Moran and Bill Sowinski of Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions go beyond the hype to discuss what metrics corporate legal departments should implement and how GCs can use benchmark data to ensure that their...
Read MoreMining for Treasure In Your Own Backyard: Billing data, effectively analyzed, presents a trove of opportunities for corporate law departments to eliminate waste and redeploy dollars
Bill Sowinski of Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions works with clients to structure and analyze their legal data by developing and deploying measured strategies that improve legal and claims department performance. Here, he recommends how to implement business intelligence tools that improve the bottom...
Read MoreNew Data-Driven Offerings from Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions Provide Greater Insights into Legal Billing Practices and Fees
Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions, the global market leader in transformational, technology-based solutions for the legal industry ecosystem, today launches two new solutions that provide data and insights for corporate legal departments (CLDs) and law firms. Both solutions help CLDs and law firms...
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