Posted on October 14, 2025 by carl.murray -
Legal ops isn’t just a buzzword. It’s the line between a team that drives the business forward and one that’s in survival mode.
Too many departments are still running on spreadsheets and endless email threads. They’re expected to own spend, show impact, and help the business move faster.
In this session, Onit’s experts break down the essentials of building a legal ops foundation. You’ll find out how to benchmark where your department stands today, set up the right framework, and use data more effectively.
What You’ll Learn:
✅The core building blocks to structure legal ops for scale
✅Essential tools that turn cost control into measurable business value
✅Practical ways AI and automation can reduce busywork and show results
Join us and walk away with clear, actionable steps — whether you’re building your foundation or leveling up an existing team.
Posted on October 6, 2025 by carl.murray -
At Onit, we know contracts power your business — but without a centralized workflow, they can slow deals, increase risk, and overwhelm your legal team.
Still chasing contracts through inboxes and manual handoffs? You’re not alone. When approvals get buried in email threads and legal becomes a bottleneck, visibility into contract status and risk disappears.
Let’s fix that.
In this on-demand demo, we’ll show you how Onit’s CLM solution helps legal teams accelerate contract turnaround, reduce risk, and maintain control from intake through execution.
You’ll learn how to:
- Automate intake and approvals with smart templates and configurable workflows
- Accelerate redlining with AI-powered clause libraries and in-app collaboration (no endless email chains)
- Extract and track key contract data instantly with AI, saving hours of manual review
- Gain visibility and control with searchable repositories, real-time status tracking, and reporting
Whether you’re upgrading from spreadsheets or replacing a legacy CLM, this session will show you how Onit helps legal move faster—without losing control.
Posted on August 28, 2025 by carl.murray -
Rolling out legal tech is more than a checklist—it’s a team effort. From stakeholder buy-in to change management and post-launch metrics, the path to success is shaped by how you lead the process.
In this webinar, Onit’s legal and GTM leaders share key lessons from recent tech rollouts — what helped teams stay aligned, how they maintained momentum, and the strategies they’d use again.
You’ll Learn How To:
– Align teams with clear roles, channels, and goals
– Build change management into the process from the start
– Set up your project for lasting impact and leadership visibility
Get an insider’s perspective on what makes legal tech implementations effective — and walk away with practical strategies you can apply to your next rollout.
Posted on August 18, 2025 by carl.murray -
For decades, Legal Operations leaders have had to master a patchwork of systems, answer ad hoc questions on the fly, and make it all work — often with limited budgets.
Today’s most effective legal teams are using intelligent AI agents to take control of their spend and modernize how they manage it. The results: faster invoice reviews, lower outside counsel costs, and sharper forecasting.
Hear from Onit and Swiftwater’s leading legal ops and AI experts as they unpack how AI-first teams are redefining maturity models and driving measurable ROI through smarter end-to-end spend strategies.
You’ll learn how to:
✅ Move from reactive to proactive with AI-powered spend management
✅ Reduce invoice review time and fully enforce OC guidelines at the same time
✅ Select the right firms based on rates, performance, and demographic data
✅ Forecast budgets, reduce case aging, and build stronger outside counsel relationships
Don’t miss this chance to learn how AI-driven eBilling and spend management can help your legal team close costly gaps in your spend strategy — allowing your team to focus on more valuable work.
Posted on August 14, 2025 by carl.murray -
At Onit, we do not just build eBilling and spend management software, we rely on it every day to run our own legal operations.
Before, our legal team wrestled with manual invoice reviews, clunky reports, and endless back-and-forth with vendors. Now, we manage spend with speed, accuracy, and zero spreadsheet chaos.
In this on-demand webinar, you will hear from Stasha, Onit’s in-house counsel, on how our team made the shift from manual processes to automated, insight-rich spend management. Smith, our Senior Solution Engineer, will show you the exact tools and workflows we use in-house to keep budgets on track and compliance in check.
You’ll learn how to:
- Automatically flag noncompliant invoice charges
- Reallocate multi-matter invoices in just a few clicks
- Track budgets and accruals in real time
- Build reports and dashboards, no spreadsheets required
Whether you are starting fresh or upgrading your current system, this session will help you cut the busywork and focus on what matters most.
Posted on July 19, 2025 by carl.murray -
December 9, 2025 | 12PM ET
Back by popular demand — one of our most talked-about sessions of the year returns this December.
Generative AI tools like ChatGPT are reshaping how legal teams work, making it faster and easier to draft documents, review contracts, and manage everyday legal tasks. But getting the best results starts with knowing how to prompt.
Join Onit’s legal and AI experts for a replay session of Prompt Like a Pro, where they share real-world strategies for using large language models (LLMs) effectively and responsibly in legal settings. Whether you’re new to generative AI or looking to take your prompting skills to the next level, you’ll walk away with insights you can apply right away.
What You’ll Learn:
- How to write prompts that deliver clear, accurate results with tools like ChatGPT and other LLMs
- Practical legal use cases for generative AI — from contract review and drafting to managing legal requests
- Tips for using AI responsibly, reducing risk, and improving efficiency in your daily work
Posted on July 18, 2025 by carl.murray -
Using AI Effectively in Legal Workflows
Generative AI tools like ChatGPT are changing how legal teams work — making it easier to draft documents, analyze contracts, and manage everyday tasks. But to get the best results, it all starts with how you prompt.
In this webinar, Prompt Like a Pro: Best Practices in AI Prompting for Legal Professionals, Onit’s legal and AI experts share practical, real-world strategies for using Large Language Models (LLMs) effectively and responsibly in legal settings. Whether you’re new to generative AI or looking to take your skills further, you’ll walk away with insights you can put to work right away.
In this webinar, we will:
- Help legal professionals improve the way they use AI through better prompting
- Go beyond “Summarize by Document”
- Share practical techniques
Posted on September 29, 2024 by carl.murray -
Get the inside track to the latest in tech mergers & acquisitions.
As President and CEO of Sampford Advisors, Ed Bryant has over 20 years of experience in investment banking and M&A finance. In this webinar, Ed focuses on trends in the technology mergers and acquisitions market, with a particular focus on software companies. Ed also touches upon some of the unique characteristics of a technology company sale, including:
- Relevant valuation metrics for various technology sub-sectors
- What buyers are looking for
- The right time to sell
- How to prepare for an M&A Deal.
Viewers will learn how to identify basic buyer behaviors and how to use those insights to develop an effective M&A strategy.
Access the webinar now by completing the form on the right and clicking “Access Webinar.”
Meet the Presenter:
Ed Bryant is President and CEO of Sampford Advisors, an M&A advisory firm for Canadian technology companies with offices in Ottawa and Toronto. Ed has over 20 years of experience, including over 18 years in investment banking with Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley, and Sampford in Hong Kong, Singapore, New York, and now Canada. In that time, he has raised in excess of $20 billion in equity and debt capital and completed over $10 billion in M&A transactions.
This educational event is co-hosted by SecureDocs, a virtual data room for storing and sharing sensitive business documents, and Sampford Advisors, a boutique investment bank focused exclusively on advising clients in the technology sector on Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A).
Posted on September 29, 2024 by carl.murray -
During this entertaining and informative webinar, you’ll learn about the basic principles behind market validation, review Expertcity’s $10 Million dollar mistake (what not to do), and take a look at how AppFolio, GoToMeeting, and SecureDocs used market validation to help ensure market entry against well-known players.
Watch this webinar for more on:
- The principles of market validation
- Consequences of failing to properly validate (the $10 million dollar mistake)
- Lessons to optimize any startup’s chance of success
- How applying these concepts will help you raise capital
Access the webinar now by completing the form on the right and clicking “Access Webinar.”
Meet the Presenter:
Albert Oaten is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and market validation expert. As a part of a 14-year collaboration with Klaus Schauser of AppFolio, Albert helped develop and bring to market the GoTo line of products, AppFolio Property Manager, and SecureDocs Virtual Data Room.
Posted on September 26, 2023 by Onit -
Four Steps to Strategically Manage Outside Counsel
While AI as a concept isn’t new, it’s not always clear how it can be leveraged to address the day-to-day challenges facing in-house legal departments. That’s how we’ve found ourselves here – at the intersection of AI and Spend Management. Are you prepared to negotiate rate increase requests? Do you have an accurate view of law firm performance? Taking a strategic, programmatic approach to actively managing law firm relationships will provide the visibility you need to answer these questions and more.
In this webinar Onit Client Success leaders John Maloney and Kelly Pritchard explore a proven four-step approach to strategically manage law firms, including practical ways to leverage AI in your day-to-day work:
- Identify, measure and manage KPIs on a periodic basis regarding your outside counsel spend based on what matters most to your organization
- Understand where your rates fit against market benchmarks to identify opportunities to maximize value and control costs
- Simplify and standardize outside counsel evaluations and selections with qualitative and quantitative data
Watch the webinar now