Archer Daniels Midland

An agricultural processing company doing business in 160 countries with 35,000 employees, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) has a far-flung legal department of 80 lawyers in 16 countries. When Cam Findlay — an Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) Value Champion in 2012 when he was GC of Medtronic — joined ADM as General Counsel in 2013, he was frustrated that the company couldn’t quickly locate basic information about the number and type of legal matters facing ADM, how many law firms it was using, or how much it was spending on particular matters or in aggregate.

This case study details how Onit’s solutions helped ADM:

• Ensure that the leadership team had visibility to all matters at ADM worldwide and real-time access to legal spend
• Implement consistent processes to minimize low-value administrative tasks while providing visibility to legal risk across all ADM business units
• Provide a system for understanding and level setting that included ongoing feedback supported by analytics
• Implement systems and technologies to enforce company business processes and procedures