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Legal Operations
Driving Your Department With Dashboards to Improve Reporting and Performance
Legal departments need accurate, easy to read reports that can be communicated across the organization. I hear it all the time. Recently, Hyperion Research had a good post related to management dashboards. But how do you build a report that’s clearly readable yet also contains all...
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How to Implement a Diversity Program in the Legal Department
Diversity and inclusion initiatives are about providing development and leadership opportunities to everyone – regardless of gender, race, or creed. Many corporations have formal diversity statements and programs to support these initiatives. Law departments are an area of increasing focus...
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The Evolving Role of General Counsels in the Corporate Legal Department
At the recent ACC Annual meeting, I noticed that the role of General Counsels (GCs) appears to be expanding after my team and I met several corporate GCs who seemed to be taking a new path. Each of the attorneys we spoke to had made a successful career for themselves in the legal world but were...
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Benchmarking Spurs Creative Thinking on Fees
LexisNexis’ Kris Satkunas looks at data-driven insights into legal departments’ billing and law firm consolidation activities. CCBJ: The LexisNexis annual CounselLink report has become a useful benchmarking tool for legal departments. Tell us a little about its history and how it...
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Managing Metrics for Success
Establishing the required processes for identifying, capturing and analyzing relevant data isn’t necessarily intuitive. The role of corporate legal departments is evolving rapidly. As the responsibilities of corporate legal departments become increasingly focused on providing strategic...
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Improving Law Department Operations: Legal spend management systems help attorneys focus on the practice of law
Thanks to ongoing technological improvements to enterprise legal management software, in-house operations are more efficient than ever. Dan Ruderman of LexisNexis CounselLink has worked in this space for decades and has seen the ways the broad implementation of legal spend management systems have...
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Law Departments Stick with Firms They Know: Report reveals exception for significant corporate and litigation matters
A vast majority of corporate legal departments withheld hiring new law firms to handle their significant legal matters in 2015, according to the LexisNexis CounselLink 2015 Year-End Enterprise Legal Management Trends (ELM) Trends Report. The study concludes that while most legal departments stayed...
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