Posted on October 28, 2024 by carl.murray -
Legal departments are no longer asking whether to invest in legal operations. Instead, they’re interested in how to start building a team that will deliver positive outcomes.
This white paper will provide insight into:
- Key factors required for strong legal operations
- The three levels of legal operations
- How to build out a new legal operations function and make your first hire
- Ways to optimize and modernize your current processes
- Opportunities for legal ops to work cross-functionally throughout the organization
Bonus: Included is a sample job description to optimize your legal ops hiring efforts!
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Posted on October 28, 2024 by carl.murray -
Do youWe analyzed hundreds of pages of legal billing guidelines to uncover commonalities and best practices, and have compiled them in one comprehensive white paper!
This white paper will provide insight into:
- Key pillars of legal billing guidelines
- Clearly and purposefully communicating guidelines to your law firms
- Building more meaningful partnerships with your law firms using the guidelines
- How to enforce your guidelines with legal operations software
Bonus: Example billing guidelines text is included to help you rate your current guidelines or establish a baseline for a new document.
Fill out the form to download your copy of legal billing guidelines best practices.
Posted on October 27, 2024 by carl.murray -
The key to effective legal ops
Legal workloads are increasing, but budgets aren’t rising accordingly.
In 2023, A survey by FTI Consulting found that 79% of respondents are facing strained legal budgets along with an uptick in work volume.
With minimized resources and increased work, you need a framework in place to help you manage your caseload effectively. The solution? Legal matter management.
Legal matter management helps you improve workloads, minimize costs, and make informed decisions for your legal ops department. As legal complexities continue to grow, mastering matter management becomes more than just a convenience — it is a necessity.
In this white paper, dive into the fundamentals of matter management and learn how to:
- Identify and develop key components of matter management
- Overcome common challenges that hinder matter management
- Create an effective framework to drive optimal outcomes
- And more!
Posted on October 3, 2024 by carl.murray -
General counsel, legal teams, and all those who manage contracts on a daily basis, we’ve created this guide to help you calculate how much your organization could potentially save by utilizing contract management software.
Download to learn:
- Key Considerations Before Getting Started With Software
- The Direct Financial Impact of Contract Management Software
- Efficiency Gains with Contract Management Software
- Risk Management and Compliance with Contract Management Software
- Considering Contract Management Software for Your Business
- ROI of Contract Management Software Calculators
- Other Considerations Before Choosing a Solution
Access your copy by completing the form on the right and clicking “Download Now.”
DISCLAIMER: All articles, including Measuring the ROI of Contract Management Software, provided by SecureDocs, Inc. are intended for informational purposes only and are not updated regularly. Please note that SecureDocs, Inc. is not engaged in rendering legal, accounting, or other professional services or advice, and any content provided by ContractWorks or SecureDocs is not intended to be a substitute for legal advice.
Posted on October 3, 2024 by carl.murray -
Taking on a new Corporate Counsel position can be stressful and at times overwhelming, but this guide should give you an idea of what to expect in your new role, and offer tips to help you survive and conquer the transition.
Changing jobs can be incredibly stressful. Everything you are accustomed to and familiar with changes – from your daily routine and working environment to your colleagues and responsibilities – it’s all brand new once you make the decision to start a new role.
On top of that, taking on a role as Corporate Counsel presents its own set of unique challenges, whether you’ve been promoted to the role, are joining a new company, or are making the leap from law firm to in-house counsel. No matter how you got there, stepping into your new role will likely involve a natural learning curve as you work through early speed bumps.
Download this Guide to learn more about:
- What to expect as a new corporate counsel
- Tips for making the most of the first few months in your new role
- Tools and resources that can make daily routine easier
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Posted on October 3, 2024 by carl.murray -
Harnessing the power of contract management to reduce legal and financial risks
As General Counsel, you have dozens of things on your plate every day. Whether you’re fielding legal inquiries, negotiating contracts, advising company leadership on strategic business matters, or monitoring compliance with industry regulations, it’s likely that your schedule is filled with tasks crucial to the company’s legal health.
Given your busy calendar, it may be difficult to keep tabs on your company’s contracts. Not properly managing your contracts, however, can come with serious legal and financial risks.
Download this white paper to learn:
- What poor contract management looks like
- The many legal and financial risks associated with poor contract management
- Simple, effective strategies for managing your contracts better – so you can avoid costly mistakes
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Posted on October 3, 2024 by carl.murray -
A guide to artificial intelligence and its impact on legal departments today.
AI-based technologies such as contract management and contract review are empowering lawyers and legal professionals to engage in higher value work, helping them to accomplish routine tasks more quickly and accurately.
This guide takes a deep dive into how artificial intelligence is actually impacting corporate legal teams, the rise of legal technology, and a look at what is to come.
Download this Guide to learn:
- How AI is impacting legal departments today
- Where AI helps, and where it doesn’t
- Why legal teams should identify their core challenges before implementing AI technology
- How to manage departmental adoption of new AI technology
- What the future of contracting looks like
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Posted on October 3, 2024 by carl.murray -
Are you ready to leverage ChatGPT — the hottest topic in AI — for legal operations?
Since the release of ChatGPT, companies around the world have looked for ways to take advantage of its capabilities for their own purposes. Legal is no exception. However, ContractWorks is the first contract management software that has harnessed GPT-3 (software behind ChatGPT) potential for legal contracting.
This guide will help you learn how to use GPT-3 to achieve your contracting goals.
What’s inside?
- Legal processes that GPT-3 can be used for
- Contract management functions that use GPT-3
- Approaches to training ChatGPT for legal ops
- Tactics to ensure quality control when using ChatGPT
- Solutions to privacy & ethics concerns regarding GPT-3 use
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Posted on October 3, 2024 by carl.murray -
Exploring the relationship of technology to the growing legal operations field, how certain solutions help
For a business to thrive, you must have tools and processes in place that enable your legal, finance, and business teams to meet goals and objectives efficiently, but also allow you to adapt to unforeseeable circumstances. When it comes to contract management, that means having a system that allows you to access your contracts at all times, whether your team is in one office, working from home, or spread around the world.
Download this Ebook to learn:
- How online contract management can help you maintain business continuity when unexpected events occur
- Why outdated, manual processes, spreadsheets, and shared drives eventually stop working
- How online solutions can save you time, reduce risks, and help you make more informed business decisions
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Posted on October 3, 2024 by carl.murray -
Exploring the relationship of technology to the growing legal operations field, how certain solutions help streamline legal ops to solve common problems, and the role of general counsel in the expanding legal department.
Legal department operations have shifted over the last decade to reflect a broader, global drive toward more efficiency. Every market around the world has felt the effects of the last 10 years of soaring technological change, and the legal operations field is no exception. But legal departments are taking a multi-pronged approach to accomplish this goal of becoming more efficient to contribute to overall organizational profitability: they are onboarding specific people as well as technology solutions.
This paper explores the relationship of technology to the growing legal operations field, how certain solutions help streamline legal ops to solve common problems, and the role of general counsel in the expanding legal department.
Download this Guide to learn more about:
- Where Legal Operations has been and where it’s going
- Bringing on both humans and technology to make legal departments more efficient
- The impact on general counsel
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