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In modern day, technology is an enabler to help us perform quicker, work smarter and do more with less. But to reap these benefits, legal teams need tools that empower them, not slow them down.
In-house legal teams use a wide range of technology to manage their work, but often times these platforms are not designed for legal. As identified in the in-house legal report, most teams utilize workflow and ticketing tools, business intelligence or other dashboard and reporting provider tools to manage workflow, rather than a fit-for-purpose legal tech solution. The result of utilizing a culmination of different tools, all of which are not designed for the intricacies of an in-house legal function leads to inefficiencies across workflow, time management, resource, and overall wellbeing.
Of those surveyed in the report:
“Why is it that every other function – Sales, Marketing, and Finance – has such great tech to drive efficiency and transform service delivery, but the legal team gets given email and a notebook – you can’t produce much at scale with that.”
For many lawyers, making the decision to move in-house is marked by wanting to align closely to the heart of the business and play a meaningful role in business decisions. But with teams losing an hour of their day just trying to manage their workflow across different platforms, where’s the time for larger business goals?
Of those surveyed in the report:
Although in-house legal teams work across various different sectors and come in all shapes and sizes, they are unanimous when it comes to what is most important in their workplace tool: full-suite capabilities. In-house lawyers are on the hunt for tools that understand their ways of working and offer them a consolidated view of their work in an effort to reduce the inefficiencies caused by multiple, not fit-for-purpose solutions.
Of those surveyed:
“Having an end to end solution was certainly a part of the decision to go with LawVu”
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