In a recent article in Harvard Business Review, a team of researchers showed that 78% of transformations fail. Their analysis showed that “people are the catalysts of successful transformation.” To move beyond working in silos, incremental improvement, and isolated innovation – to achieve transformation – it’s important to have a structured process to engage leadership in setting objectives and guiding transformational change.
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Looking into Over $150 Billion of Legal Invoices with LegalVIEW Analytics
Nathan Cemenska shares insights drawn from the LegalVIEW Analytics data warehouse as well as his thoughts on the value of data to fuel bargaining power.
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Perspectives from a Recovering Litigator, Now Turned Board Member
Sylvia Kerrigan, a former litigator, with over a decade of boardroom experience under her belt, shares her career trajectory and insights on corporate culture and leadership.
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AI Can Think and Move Through Work Like a Lawyer. But What Does That Mean for Lawyers?
Matt DenOuden, Vice President of Global Sales at Onit, explains why Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming so interesting for lawyers and legal operations, as well as how AI allows attorneys to focus on higher-value work and better serve their businesses.
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Top 5 Workflow Automation Use Cases
2021 was another year of doing more with less, for many companies that meant relying on technology to keep essential business moving forward.
Tapping into Your Knowledge Assets
The professionals within corporate legal departments (CLDs) might be the living embodiment of knowledge workers: people whose main capital is knowledge and whose line of work requires them to “think for a living.”
Like a variety of other organizations centered around knowledge workers, CLDs are under pressure to find a way to work more efficiently, innovate faster, and get the most from their employees’ expertise. To get that edge and stay ahead, every resource counts – but in too many organizations, knowledge remains a valuable, yet untapped, asset.
There are several reasons why.
First among these is the challenge of simply finding documents. Knowledge workers report they spend an inordinate amount of time searching for specific pieces of content that are scattered and siloed across multiple systems. The information stored in documents holds tremendous potential, but that potential can’t be activated if workers are too overwhelmed to make the most of information spread between disparate sources, or don’t even know where to look.
Another key factor impacting the ability of organizations to truly tap into their knowledge is the remote workforce transformation that has taken place in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Upwork estimates that by 2025, 36.2 million…
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Exceptional Firm Culture Starts at the Top
Deborah Festa, partner with Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, discusses the qualities that contribute to a great culture at a firm, including the crucial role of leadership. Also: Advice on what women can do to excel in traditionally male-dominated fields such as finance law.
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Managing Risk of Liability Stemming from Biometric Tech and Privacy Laws
Using biometrics may increase efficiency, but companies that do so should also be careful to avoid – and insure against – liability.
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The Expanding Remit of the Corporate Legal Department
Bill Piwonka, chief marketing officer at Exterro, discusses key ways that legal departments have evolved in the last decade, including operational and process changes, technological advancements, and the new role of the general counsel.
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Optimizing the Business of Law
Keith Maziarek, director of pricing and legal project management at Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, and Justin Ergler, director of alternative fee intelligence and analytics at GlaxoSmithKline, discuss the evolving nature of legal operations and management, the new face of negotiations between law firms and corporate clients, and the collaborative nature of their jobs.
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