In this piece from Corporate Counsel Business Journal, Dave Parks, VP of Marketing with Contract Logix, worries that the economic slowdown will hamper organizations already struggling to do more with less and optimize their investments in areas such as contract lifecycle management.
Continue Reading First, Ask These Questions About Contracts
In this piece from the Law Society Gazette of England and Wales, Mike McGlinchey, head of client consulting at Pinsent Masons Vario, Glasgow, discusses legal tech in a very practical way – when is tech the answer, when not – noting that the growth of tech is sprouting new problems.
Continue Reading When Tech, What Tech, Why Tech?
As many worked from home, accelerated by the pandemic and technology, it has been particularly difficult to avoid a growing threat posed by employees who have utilized private E-message platforms to conduct company business.
Continue Reading What’s Up with WhatsApp? Out of Control Business Communications
What does it take to have a modern law approach to practice? Read on to find out.
Continue Reading Use Emerging Technology to Advance Strategic Imperatives
Melissa Tatham, the Vice President of Marketing for Zapproved, has helped grow Zapproved into a leading cloud-based software provider for corporate legal teams. Melissa discusses a hybrid approach to In-House E-Discovery, making the case at your organization for E-Discovery Software, and what to look for in E-Discovery software.
Continue Reading How to Make the Case for E-Discovery Software
What does it take to lead through the wake of a pandemic and manage a corporate legal department on the threshold of tremendous societal, technological, governmental and organizational upheaval? It’s a question many chief legal officers (CLOs) and general counsel have been asking themselves and their peers throughout 2021. For some, the answer has been present all along in the choices they’ve made and in the resiliency they’ve maintained amid a never-ending stream of challenges.
Continue Reading The General Counsel Report 2022: Leading with Endurance Through Risk, Culture and Technology Challenges
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
Continue Reading Tapping into Your Knowledge Assets
With the current focus on artificial intelligence (AI) as one of the biggest trends in legal technology, it is not surprising that more companies are now touting the AI capabilities of their bill review solutions. However, building an AI solution is not a simple process. When done right, it results in best-in-class technology that delivers maximum value. When corners are cut, though, or AI is built on lesser data, the result is a solution that cannot maximize the legal department’s ROI.
Continue Reading AI in Legal Bill Review: Finding the Best Among the Rest
Ken Crutchfield, vice president and general manager of legal markets at Wolters Kluwer Legal and Regulatory U.S., discusses the booming legal technology market, including what in-house counsel can do to ensure that they choose the right solutions for their company – now and in the future.
Continue Reading As Legal Tech Surges Forward, Don’t Get Left Behind