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Stop doing manual math in Legal Ops

If you’re still managing spend and invoices in spreadsheets, your process is already broken. Manual math drains hours every week, creates hidden errors, and chips away at trust with finance and vendors. This whitepaper, Math of Legal Ops: Numbers, Process, and People Driving the Bottom Line, shows how modern legal ops teams are fixing the equation with automation, accuracy, and insight.

What’s inside:

  • How much time manual math is really costing your team
  • Why spreadsheets fail when accuracy matters most
  • The connection between data integrity and trust
  • How to turn clean numbers into measurable ROI

Download the whitepaper and see how to get out of reactive mode and start managing legal ops by design, not by formula.

Leadership in the Age of AI: Prepare Your Legal Team for the Future

Agentic systems are already taking on tasks autonomously, and the skills that legal professionals need to thrive are shifting fast. AI is reshaping how we manage matters, review invoices, enforce compliance, and deliver business value.

But here’s the real question: will your team shape how AI is used — or scramble to catch up?

In this webinar, experts from Onit and Corteva Agriscience cut through the hype and focus on the legal skills that matter most to legal leaders and their teams (today and in the future).

Watch this webinar, and you’ll walk away ready to:

  • Build the AI-ready capabilities that will help your team adapt
  • See what “working with AI” looks like in practice today (and tomorrow)
  • Rethink leadership, hiring, and coaching in the AI era
  • Use simple frameworks to measure and grow your team’s AI fluency

AI-Powered Legal Ops; Insights from Onit’s Leadership + Product Demo

Join Onit’s executive and product leaders for a behind-the-scenes look at how AI is redefining legal operations. You’ll hear how forward-thinking legal teams are reducing spend, streamlining reviews, and cutting out manual work. 

You’ll get a live look at the AI-native tools making it all happen. 

You’ll See How To: 

✅ Eliminate billing disputes and compliance risks with AI-powered invoice automation 

✅ Gain real-time visibility into legal spend and firm performance 

✅ Instantly surface the right firms and attorneys with smart data tools 

✅ Stop workarounds with upcoming platform enhancements designed to simplify legal ops 

Don’t miss this session designed to help you move faster, spend smarter, and lead legal into the future.

From Chaos to Clarity: How to Centralize Legal Requests 

At Onit, we know legal teams are constantly asked to “just take a quick look.” But when requests come from every direction — email, Slack, hallway conversations — it’s nearly impossible to track, prioritize, or manage effectively. 

Let’s fix that. 

In this on-demand demo, you’ll see how Onit’s Legal Service Request (LSR) solution creates a single, organized front door for all incoming legal work. We’ll show how forward-thinking legal teams are reducing chaos, improving visibility, and focusing on strategic priorities instead of constant fire drills. 

You’ll see how to: 

  • Standardize and centralize legal intake to eliminate inbox overload 
  • Make ownership and status crystal clear across your team 
  • Prioritize requests based on strategy, not who’s loudest 
  • Gain real-time insight into volume, workload, and trends 

Whether you’re overwhelmed by ad hoc requests or ready to modernize your intake process, this demo will show how to bring clarity, structure, and strategy back to your legal operations. 

Legal Ops 101: Using AI to Cut Busywork and Control Cost

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.

CLM to Streamline, Track, and Simplify Your Contract Workflow

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.

What’s the real ROI of legal eBilling tech?

Read how modern eBilling delivers measurable savings, efficiency, and stronger vendor partnerships.

Legal departments are expected to control spend while delivering measurable results. eBilling technology provides the data and insights that make this possible. This resource gives you a clear framework for demonstrating ROI and securing support for your investment.

What you’ll learn:

  • How automated eBilling cuts hidden costs and keeps budgets in check
  • A proven method for calculating ROI on technology investments
  • The efficiency gains from automated invoice review
  • How data-driven spend management improves decision making
  • Real outcomes achieved by legal teams that use eBilling

Why it matters for legal ops:

Legal budgets are stretched thin, yet workloads continue to grow. With the right eBilling tech, your team can:

  • Cut manual reviews by hours
  • Improve compliance and accuracy
  • Build stronger partnerships with finance and outside counsel
  • Demonstrate clear ROI and value back to the business

Matter management 101: the groundwork for effective legal operations

Want a framework that brings compliance and control without the chaos?

Legal workloads are rising. Budgets aren’t. Errors, delays, and compliance risk pile up, especially when tracking matters is fuzzy. Smarter tracking means fewer surprises, faster answers, and cleaner compliance across every matter.

In this guide, we cover the fundamentals of matter management and how to build a framework that improves efficiency, reduces risk, and gives your team clarity from start to finish.

What you’ll learn:

  • The 7 core components of matter management, from document organization to risk management
  • How to standardize workflows and tasks to save time and avoid costly delays
  • Practical steps for organizing, tracking, and reporting matters
  • Why matter management is essential for turning legal ops into a strategic business partner

Why this matters for legal ops:

  • Control spend. Know where every dollar goes, prevent overbilling, and manage vendor invoices with ease.
  • Save time. Ditch manual workflows and repetitive tasks so your team can focus on strategy.
  • Reduce risk. Enforce consistent guidelines, stay audit-ready, and avoid missed obligations.

Legal billing guidelines best practices

Discover best practices for creating, communicating, and enforcing billing guidelines that strengthen law firm relationships and control spend.

Outside counsel billing doesn’t have to be mysterious or contentious. Legal Billing Guidelines: Best Practices compiles insights from Fortune 100 companies and startups alike to help you create clear, enforceable, and well-communicated billing rules.

Whether you’re writing your first guideline or refining an existing one, this guide explains how to set expectations, avoid billing pitfalls, and build strong, transparent relationships with your law firms.

With this guide, you’ll learn how to:

  • Define essential billing guideline components
  • Address advanced needs like budgeting and accruals
  • Communicate and roll out guidelines effectively
  • Enforce rules with tools and metrics
  • Keep guidelines updated and relevant

Becoming data-driven: a guide to structured legal reporting

Learn how structured reporting sharpens strategy and proves legal’s impact beyond the department.

Legal teams can’t rely on intuition alone. Leaders need clear, structured reporting to demonstrate impact and influence business strategy.

Legal Reporting 101: Turning Insights into Impact on a Structured Approach to Legal Reporting provides a practical framework for turning raw legal data into insights that drive smarter decisions, justify resource allocation, and build stronger alignment across the organization.

In this guide, you’ll discover how to:

  • Identify the key data points every legal team should capture
  • Define KPIs that show ROI and business alignment
  • Build reporting processes that are scalable and repeatable
  • Communicate insights that resonate with the C-Suite and stakeholders
  • Use reporting to transition from reactive to proactive legal operations