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If your legal team is drowning in spreadsheets, overflowing inboxes and operational business, Shaun Plant’s hindsight is a gift for leaders who want to improve.

Data is critical currency for today’s in-house counsel. With LawVu’s new GC Dashboard, you can use critical real-time data to strengthen your position as a strategic business partner.

Many legal teams still manually manage their legal invoice approval workflows – and it’s an extremely inefficient process. If you’re using LawVu’s spend management and e-billing solutions, you can now leverage enhanced invoice approval automation to save time and improve your legal operations.

It’s time to say goodbye to your overflowing email inbox. With LawVu’s integrated email and Microsoft Outlook add-in, you can effortlessly save and track important email conversations and attachments and create a central record of communication – all within one secure legal workspace.

Introducing LawVu’s brand new integration with Microsoft Copilot – tap into your LawVu repository and progress your legal work without ever having to leave your current tools.

Introducing LawVu’s new mobile app – designed for modern legal teams to streamline and accelerate the contract approval process from anywhere, ensuring better outcomes for the entire business.

In the fast-paced world of enterprise business, in-house legal teams juggle overflowing inboxes and a constant stream of legal requests in a variety forms across a plethora of departments and systems. With everyone wanting things done right now, it can be hard to prioritize – let alone assign, track and collaborate across the legal team or with stakeholders.

AI tools are becoming a core component of in-house legal work – but to leverage their value safely, responsible use is paramount. Follow this simple guide to ensure that your procurement and use of AI is grounded in responsible principles.

More than ever before, legal teams are leveraging AI to reduce overheads and position themselves as strategic business partners. But in a crowded marketplace of solutions, which generative AI legal use cases are no-brainers for in-house counsel? 

For most corporate legal teams, adopting AI-powered technology is now no longer a question of “if” but “when” – but there’s more to successfully implementing AI than flicking a switch. Follow this step-by-step guide to set yourself up for success before diving in. 

LawVu, the leading legal workspace for in-house legal teams, has been awarded “Top Enterprise Legal Management Platform for Mid-market” along with a suite of accolades for innovation, workflow solutions and customer satisfaction in the Annual Theorem LegalTech TAM Awards.

In-house legal teams are facing increasing pressure, with higher workloads and more complexity than ever before. The LawVu legal workspace is a unified platform for managing matters, contracts and spend […]

Legal teams implement spend management and e-billing solutions to centralize their invoices and legal spend data in one place. Ultimately this speeds up workflows and creates critical visibility over spend […]

Picture your legal team’s typical week. How many mundane tasks are you repeating? How many unfamiliar stakeholder tools and processes are you navigating? How much time are you wasting connecting […]

BlackBoiler now integrates with LawVu, so you can redline NDAs and contracts in minutes, without leaving your legal workspace. BlackBoiler will receive, review, and return a redlined version of a […]

Under the pressure of tight budgets, cost control is a top priority for in-house legal teams. Here are three easy ways to cut your legal spend down to size.

With cost control a top priority for in-house legal teams in 2024, there’s never been a better time to start taking control of your balance sheet. Read on to learn the basics of legal spend management – and the benefits to your business of getting it right.

In this article, we consider how traditional approaches to contract management stack up against the demands facing modern in-house legal teams, before delving into the benefits you may be missing out on with your current contract management software.

The past 12 months have been exciting yet challenging. From the widespread influence of AI to the global financial crisis, everyone is trying to do more with less. And legal teams have felt this pressure more than ever!

Read on to learn why and how introducing simple and practical AI-powered contract management tools into your legal function can unlock efficiency wins and better outcomes for your business – without unnecessary complexity, cost, or risk.

Read on to learn why unleashing the power of legal contract lifecycle data should be an essential strategic step, not only for your in-house legal function but also for your wider business – and the five most useful contract metrics to start you on your journey. 

We’ve made significant improvements to our AI contract data extraction functionality by introducing new, safe, secure, and reliable AI capabilities into LawVu’s legal workspace, we’re helping legal teams save valuable time throughout the contract lifecycle, decreasing cycle times and enabling critical efficiencies for those who work with contracts.

Whether your big wins include leading a successful negotiation for a big transaction, influencing a major strategic decision, or simply showing the ways in which other departments are benefiting from improvements to the way that you deliver advice, NPS allows you to showcase your team’s strengths, and celebrate continual improvements which occur over time. 

We’re working in a world where legal matter management tools aren’t an option for legal functions, they’re a must. And that’s a problem if you’re either struggling to convey the […]

We’ve compiled a list of the ways your matter management approach could be creating inefficiencies and how to overcome them, so your legal function can fast-track saving time and delivering more value to the business.

Here’s a hint, when done right, there’s a strong case for one being far more effective and valuable to an in-house legal function than the other.

Just like any other business function, it’s likely that you’ll have to prepare a business case to help influence stakeholders on why the tech you’ve chosen is the best option and, ultimately, to get sign-off for the investment. So, to help get you started, we’ve created a free downloadable business case template along with a handy blueprint to guide you through building a business case in six easy steps.

LawVu’s out-of-box reporting and dashboard features now make it even easier for legal teams to access rich and actionable insights across all the work they do, including contracts, matters and spend management, enabling data-informed decision-making and the ability to effectively showcase the value of legal to the rest of the organization.

It all begins by determining what data and metrics are best aligned with higher business objectives, and this varies depending on the type of organization or legal function you’re in and how easily you can surface the data needed. 

There is a common saying that states ‘for something to be managed it needs to be measured’, and this saying applies when it comes to a legal function’s BAU work. In order to achieve this, and therefore showcase the value and impact of legal to the business, its output, the BAU component of the legal team, needs to be visible. In this article we share what BAU data and insights are – and how a legal team can showcase its value and impact on the day-to-day running of the organization.

Tauranga, New Zealand, 16 August 2023 – LawVu, the category defining legal workspace for in-house legal teams around the globe, today announced it has been positioned as a Major Player […]

A new report says Australia’s professional and financial services sector could unlock billions of dollars in value by 2030 if it accelerates the responsible adoption of generative artificial intelligence (GAI).

Deciding on what technology to invest in should be done in a well-considered and methodical manner so that your investment is not only impactful today but in the future. Helping you identify those considerations so you can make a well-informed decision is where a technology roadmap comes into play.

Relying on manual document approval processes is where you’re most likely to experience legal waste, so it’s time we shed some light on how to streamline your approval process to minimize symptoms of legal waste and optimize the productivity of your team. The good news is that the number of ways in which you could automate processes and save your legal function time (and money) is limitless.

To most business functions, data has always been an integral force, backing decision-making and identifying successes and learnings. This isn’t necessarily the case for in-house legal functions, however. According to […]

When RFPs are tracked manually via spreadsheets, email, or across a range of point solutions, the ability to effectively scope, provide key information, send, and collaborate from one place can be challenging and time consuming. The good news is that this can be avoided. Read on to learn more about streamlining RFPs for legal services.

Controlling spend will always be important to in-house legal teams and legal operations, so avoiding roadblocks that can get in the way of reducing costs and getting the efficiency gains desired is crucial. With this in mind, we’ve identified three roadblocks that may be impacting the ability of legal functions to achieve effective spend management and cost control, and provided solutions as to how they can be tackled.

Over a week, lost minutes can snowball into hours, resulting in data getting lost in the cracks or your legal team sacrificing time that could otherwise be spent on strategic work. Streamlining your invoicing and spend management workflows with a legal spend management platform that includes e-billing capabilities like LawVu creates valuable efficiencies and visibility for your team while helping you control legal spend. Discover how to streamline your legal spend management and e-billing workflows so you can get time back and reduce spend.

To date, most legal teams have managed their outsourced work, e-billing and legal spend management in one of two ways. We’re here to unpack some of the traditional methods of managing e-billing and legal spend management and compare them with an arguably more efficient approach. Read on to discover ways to optimize your approach to e-billing and legal spend management.

We’re not usually ones for hyperbole but relying on one legal workspace as a single source of truth makes your legal function work better, perform better, and most importantly feel better. All while lowering your organization’s risk and increasing usability. Learn where to begin with unifying your systems and how to build a single source of truth with the Connected Legal Certification.

LawVu customers have always been able to enjoy the benefits of creating and downloading contracts straight from Salesforce, as well as having visibility on contract status. With LawVu’s enhanced Salesforce integration, in-house legal teams can further optimize productivity by streamlining how the wider business creates, sends, and manages matters and contracts with the legal team.

In the following article, we explain 10 legal department metrics high-performing in-house teams are tracking and how they may help your team be more productive, as well as showcase to […]

Metrics are an essential tool for in-house legal teams, bringing data into the decision-making process. So how can metrics transform your team’s legal ops strategy?

LawVu, the category-defining legal workspace for in-house legal teams, today announced the addition of several new AI enhancements to their legal workspace. Much like the legal workspace at large, these new AI-powered features optimize efficiency and grant time back to busy in-house legal professionals, helping them to unlock valuable data and action contracts faster.

Discover how LawVu’s AI-powered legal technology streamlines in-house legal workflows, automates administrative tasks, and improves contract management, all while maintaining security and reliability with trusted partners like Zuva and Microsoft. Explore AI features designed specifically for in-house legal teams.

Legal waste is the antithesis of a legal function in harmony. It is one of the most common symptoms of disconnection and it can render even the most impactful in-house […]

As an in-house legal professional, your ‘client’ is the business, so it’s vital the service you deliver meets its needs in a timely manner. Yet there’s a proportion of legal […]

Learn how to save time by creating an in-house legal document management system with the Connected Legal Certification.

Learn how to build your in-house legal department’s legal capital by creating a legal knowledge management system with the Connected Legal Certification.

Learn about automation and its benefits with the Connected Legal Certification, a free course for all in-house legal professionals.

Learn the skills you’ll need to deliver legal project management that is on time, on budget, and meets the expectations of the business.

The Connected Legal Certification offers a unique opportunity for legal professionals to improve their skills and performance. It follows the Connected Legal Function framework and provides on-demand video lessons, quizzes, and templates on important topics such as change management, project management, stakeholder engagement, and optimizing legal workflow. This certification is suitable for all in-house legal professionals and caters to legal teams at every stage, from setting up a new function to optimizing an established team. With the Connected Legal Certification, legal professionals can become high-performing in-house legal teams and strategic partners to the business.

How to choose a CLM that saves your in-house legal team time, improves productivity, reduces risk, and empowers the wider business.

Inflation in the US is the highest it has been in four decades, but a recent study by Zuva found that only 13 percent of contracts reviewed included an inflation adjustment clause.

Your legal team deals with a ton of legal work from all corners of the business, so it’s imperative to have an intake process that improves service delivery and connection […]

Integrations with the tools in-house legal teams use every day are essential for a legal workspace. When you don’t have to navigate between systems or duplicate data entry, you save […]

For busy in-house legal teams with growing workloads and increasing demand to do more with less, a single source of truth and a unified, centralized workspace saves valuable time with […]

Working in local government means the constant balancing of resources in order to provide an exceptional service to your organization, stakeholders, and the wider community. Having the right legal technology […]

In this article, I’ll take three challenges the legal industry tackled during the Great Recession, and look at how you can prepare your in-house legal team in the best way possible, by arming them with the best tools.

How in-house teams can leverage LawVu to improve due diligence and successfully close more M&A deals Recently, most of the AmLaw 100 have begun using artificial intelligence (AI) powered contract […]

Four steps to implementing the LawVu legal workspace At LawVu, we’re cognizant that most teams implementing legal technology are doing so alongside an already busy day job. This is why […]

With LawVu’s Business Portal as part of the legal workspace, the wider business can create legal requests, generate and manage contracts, and quickly get answers to common legal questions on […]

LawVu, the category defining legal workspace for in-house legal teams, today announced the official launch of its new configurable business portal. The advanced offering enhances engagement between the legal team and the […]

Use LawVu to get your house in order before approaching investors for capital Venture capitalists have been eager investors in enterprise technology startups, but the market is slowing, and deals […]

Integrations with much-loved enterprise tools are crucial for getting the most value from your legal technology solutions. As in-house legal teams continue to deal with increasing workloads and complexities together […]

Save time and make business collaboration even easier. In-house legal teams use a legal workspace as their central source of truth, yet there are many other tools that the business […]

During uncertain economic conditions, building resilience, optimizing efficiency, and increasing productivity become even more of a necessity. It’s also more important than ever for in-house legal to deliver an ROI, […]

Preparing for a possible recession is no easy feat. The uncertainty puts further pressure on already stretched resources, and it can be a time that truly emulates the ‘do more […]

At LawVu, our mission is to drive better business outcomes by providing the world’s leading and most-loved platform for in-house legal teams. One of the ways we do this is […]

For the first time, in-house legal teams have a playbook that outlines a new framework — the Connected Legal Function — and provides insights, tools, and quick wins to put […]

Oslo, Norway – May 31, 2022 – PSA Consulting today announced that they are partnering with Legal Tech specialists LawVu to empower in-house legal teams across the Nordics. LawVu was […]

Tauranga-based legal software startup LawVu will join Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern for a Seattle meeting with Microsoft president Brad Smith and other executives at the tech giant. A total of […]

As an in-house lawyer or legal professional, you know that your work has an impact on the business. But does the business know the value of that impact? It’s only […]

Switching between multiple software solutions, time-consuming manual day-to-day tasks, and inefficient systems for managing workloads are all challenges facing in-house legal teams, reducing the time they have available to spend […]

As an in-house lawyer, your role involves navigating the present, while also keeping an eye on what’s on the horizon for your team and the wider business. Managing the business-as-usual […]

When you think about your in-house legal team’s relationship with other business departments, how would you describe it? Do words such as ‘collaborative’ and ‘healthy’ feature, or are you more […]

What does being productive mean to you? Often when we imagine what ‘productive’ looks like for the in-house legal team there are two scenarios. The first is a team working […]

LawVu, a collaboration software company for in-house legal teams, has raised $NZ20 million ($USD13.5 million) on the back of another year of 100 per cent-plus revenue growth. The business, which […]

It’s now the norm for business communication and collaboration to take place on chat-based communication platforms, with a recent report finding that Microsoft Teams topped more than 270 million monthly […]

Deciding to grow a business through capital raising or an IPO means there’s a flurry of activity across the whole organization. As the general counsel (GC), you’re involved in conversations, […]

Chat-based communication platforms are becoming the norm for business communication and collaboration, with tens of millions of daily active users and hundreds of thousands of companies adopting the technology to […]

Do you recall why you decided to become an in-house lawyer or legal professional? Often the drawcards for moving in-house involve playing a more integral and influential role in a […]

Our world is driven by positive relationships, open communication and active collaboration. A successful organization is no different. In order to build a lasting legacy and strong network, your business […]

Law Squared has partnered with New Zealand-born legal tech business LawVu, to introduce the software platform for in-house legal teams as part of the firms Law Squared as a Service […]

In this post, we discuss the role of in-house legal teams in the complex environment of high-growth companies. We cover common challenges, where to start as the first in-house lawyer, […]

The world certainly seems like a complex place at the moment. We’re navigating a business environment that’s not really ‘usual’ and where the new normal is fast becoming second nature. […]

Auckland, New Zealand, December 6th 2021 Microsoft New Zealand has celebrated the outstanding achievements of its Aotearoa partner network at the recent 14th annual Microsoft Partner Awards. Microsoft is delighted […]

A world-first operating model which radically speeds up the claims process for those affected by natural disasters is one of the big winners in the annual Microsoft New Zealand Partner […]

It may have just taken out the top award at the Tauranga Business Awards, but LawVu’s co-founder says the business has only reached the start line. The Tauranga-based legal tech […]

Prestigious Annual Awards Program Recognizes Innovative Companies, Products, and Services Supporting the Legal Field TAURANGA, New Zealand, November 17, 2021 – LawVu, the leading legal workspace for in-house legal teams today […]

Within organizations, often the most valuable progress comes when people emerge from their departmental silos, connect and collaborate to meet objectives and achieve goals. In a similar way, when all […]

Legal tech start up LawVu has secured a recruitment coup. The Tauranga startup has just hired Greg Stephenson who, until July this year, was running LinkedIn’s North American marketing operation […]

Legal operations is emerging as a profession in its own right, with the in-house legal industry realizing the need to move out of email and spreadsheets, to a place where […]

Embarking on a legal tech journey generally means taking one of two paths – either working with a connected workspace approach or managing one or more point solutions. Point solutions […]

Recently, we were joined by staff for a casual chat about all things AI, machine learning, and contracts, hosted by Kelly Williams, Senior front-end developer, and joined by Dr. Kat […]

Recently, we were joined by staff for a casual chat about women in STEM, hosted by Kelly Williams, Senior front-end developer, and joined by Kat Hempstalk, VP of Data & […]

When it comes to outsourcing work, our customers told us that sending RFPs by email and keeping track of them is time consuming. LawVu is providing an even better in-house […]

The latest statistics show that the in-house legal team’s future is evolving under pressure: workloads are expected to increase by over 25% in the next three years; 76% of legal […]

Tauranga-based legal software company LawVu has completed a successful Series A raise of $17 million led by New York-based global private equity and venture capital firm Insight Partners.