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• In-House Counsel

  6 Upcoming Legal Events You Don’t Want to Miss

  What better way to expand your knowledge around legal operations than from your peers who have been there and done that? We’re sharing five upcoming events – both online and in-person – tha...

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• In-House Counsel

  4 Things You Can Do to Get the Most from Outside Counsel

  Maximizing outside counsel performance is part trial and error and part effective management. Whether you are just starting with law firms or have dozens (if not hundreds) of vendors, here are fo...

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• Industry Trends

  5 Legal Operations Trends to Pay Attention to This Year

  Fueled by fast-paced growth and demand for greater efficiency in the legal department, there’s no doubt that legal operations is here to stay. Whether you are a legal operations professional, t...

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• Legal Operations

  What You Missed at ‘Legal Ops 101: A Framework for Modern Legal Departments’

  SimpleLegal and the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) partnered to host an informative webinar titled Legal Ops 101: A Framework for Modern Legal Departments. Moderated by Nathan Wenzel, CEO...

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• In-House Counsel

  How to Talk to Your GC about Investing in Legal Operations Technology

  Some legal professionals may feel apprehensive when approaching their GC or Chief Legal Officer (CLO) with requests to fund new legal operations technology. But, with a solid case in hand and an ...

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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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