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When looking at legal operations it is usually defined in a way that focuses on in-house corporate legal teams. However, other settings such as consultancies and law firms also work in legal operations. If you're working in a law firm you can expect to do the following types of work: Business Intelligence The right data is incredibly useful for business decision-making - allowing the firm's leadership to make quicker, better decisions. This ultimately allows firms to take bet

In 2024, Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) has almost taken a back seat to artificial intelligence. However, there will still be a huge number of businesses looking to implement CLM tools in order to improve efficiency and mitigate risk. Here are some things I picked up during my time implementing CLM for global corporates: Always get a reference Whether it is the CLM provider that implements the solution, or one of the CLM provider's implementation partners, you should alw

Document automation is the process of making documents quicker to draft using technology. In the legal context, these documents are usually contracts, associated schedules and/or other documents used in the completion of a particular legal matter. Typically, document automation is better suited to transactional areas of law (e.g. corporate, employment, etc) as opposed to dispute resolution, which may be more bespoke on a case-by-case basis. Typically the benefits of implement

For quite a few people in legal operations they may be the only person in their organisation that does this type of work - especially those working in-house. Finding yourself with little in the way of network makes it difficult to assess what is 'best practice' or take inspiration from projects that others have done, for example. It is therefore useful to build up a network that not only helps your professionally - but also personally in the event you ever need to move on to