Is anything more fundamental to business than a contract? It’s the tie that binds a company to a client — a mutually-agreed vow that enables the regulated exchange of products and services.
To meet ever increasing pressure to become more agile and responsive to business needs, in-house legal functions are investing in transformation initiatives. However, all too often these initiatives disappoint or fail.
Keeping track of all a firm’s local divisions and business units, knowing the officers in charge of each one, and understanding the jurisdictional differences between them, is vital for large organisations.
A survey of law firms and General Counsels conducted by Bloomberg Law last year found that more than a third did not have a legal operations function.
Of all the future-gazing about what a post-COVID world might look like, predictions about the workplace are proving to be the most accurate. We’ve quickly gone beyond acceptance of home and hybrid working to embrace longer-term trends like contingent staffing and outsourced services. In the topsy-turvy world of lockdowns and supply chain disruptions, a flexible legal workforce made up of your talent and the resources provided by a partner is gaining greater acceptance.
Of all the future-gazing about what a post-COVID world might look like, predictions about the workplace are proving to be the most accurate.
As GCs are experiencing increased demand from the business, we are always looking for ways to help them deliver more with less.
It is becoming more and more frequent that businesses need to review and evaluate specific provisions in a variety of their contractual arrangements – often with speed and decisiveness.
Having spent over 30 years building and managing outsourcing and managed services businesses, I’ve seen these offerings evolve and I am confident …
To close off our series I wanted to capture the key take-aways and leave you with a set of steps to help start the journey to an agile legal operation.
Businesses use technology to automate manual processes and become more efficient, freeing people to focus on core responsibilities rather than devoting valuable hours to rote, repetitive tasks. While there’s been lots of worry that advances like AI might replace people entirely, the more likely outcome for legal teams is what’s already becoming normalised in other sectors and professions — machines complementing humans.
