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• Industry Trends

  Statistics Point to Another Strong Year for Legal Operations in 2019

  2019 is an exciting year to be in legal operations. It may feel like we say that every year, but with the international growth of legal operations, increase in legal service providers and resou...

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• In-House Counsel

  Key Insights General Counsel and Legal Operations Have With SimpleLegal — And You Need

  Data is only as good as the insights you get out of it. Thanks to the widespread availability of software, extracting value from the massive amounts of data received by the legal department (spec...

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• Legal Operations

  Legal Ops Experts Weigh-In on the Evolution of Legal Technology

  What a night! SimpleLegal hosted a panel discussion at our headquarters in Mountain View, CA to discuss Where Legal Technology is Headed (for better or worse). We brought in local legal operatio...

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• SimpleLegal Updates

  Listen and Understand: Retooling Your Approach to Outstanding Customer Experiences

  Whether a long or short sales cycle, once a customer signs, it’s easy to skip project planning and jump into full force execution. This can be great in an attempt to quickly obtain results, but...

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• Legal Tech

  Complex AFAs and Enforcing Them with SimpleLegal

  Over the years, the use of alternative fee arrangements (AFAs) by corporate legal departments has grown due to a number of factors such as falling realization rates, more competition, and the exp...

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• Legal Tech

  Advice from the Experts: 3 Pro Tips for Evaluating Your Legal Technology

  The term “tech stack” has become the common way to describe the group of technologies that users leverage to improve their operations and daily activities. But categories and industries are b...

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• Legal Tech

  Finance Integrations: How to Talk to Your IT Team About the SimpleLegal API

  Most legal and finance departments depend on different applications and tools, leading to the reliance on outdated, manual processes that hinder productivity and suffocate growth. An API integrat...

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• In-House Counsel

  5 Building Blocks Critical to Every Change Management Plan

  We face changes all the time in our lives. At the workplace, it may be in the form of a new transformation initiative, a global system deployment, or even just moving offices. These changes are i...

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• Industry Trends

  3 Lessons Learned at the 2018 ACC Annual Meeting

  We just got back from the ACC (Association of Corporate Counsel) Annual Meeting in Austin, Texas and despite the lack of coffee, we had a great time sponsoring the event! Most notably, we had the...

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• In-House Counsel

  The Intelligent Way to Manage, Automate, and Control Your Invoice Process

  Developing billing guidelines is an important step towards ensuring your department is fiscally responsible and that unique business processes are being followed both internally and externally. Y...

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• In-House Counsel

  Matter Management vs. Case Management

  Matter Management (also referred to as Legal Matter Management) is the process in which matters and related data such as type of legal work, attorneys on the case, budgets, and invoices are gathe...

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• In-House Counsel

  Law Firm Diversity Programs: How to Track the Diversity of Your Outside Counsel

  Corporate legal departments are placing significant weight on their law firms’ commitment to provide a diverse staff to perform legal services across all practice areas. In fact, more than a th...

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