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• In-House Counsel

  Legal Billing Guidelines: What to Include and How to Enforce Them

  Legal billing guidelines are a binding agreement between a legal department and a law firm, ensuring payment in exchange for legal work. The guidelines establish rules for legal invoicing formats...

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• In-House Counsel

  How These 5 Types of Legal Templates Will Streamline Your Legal Ops Work

  “Don’t reinvent the wheel, just realign it.” American author, Anthony J. D’Angelo, probably wasn’t referring to legal templates when he said that — but his advice still applies. Why s...

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• Legal Tech

  Intuitive Software Transforming Legal Ops

  Known for its simplicity, yet robust and configurable capabilities, SimpleLegal is one of the must-have legal technologies for legal departments of all shapes and sizes. Learn why SimpleLegal’...

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• Legal Tech

  What is Business Intelligence and Why Should Legal Teams Care?

  What is business intelligence? It involves leveraging tools to turn data and analytics into actionable insights that facilitate more strategic business decisions. If that sounds like a bunch of j...

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• Legal Operations

  4 Factors That Affect Your Legal Spend (And How To Unlock Potential Savings)

  What if we told you that you could shave $924,900 from your legal spend each year? According to a combination of industry data and our internal research, the right spend management platform can h...

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• In-House Counsel

  4 In-House Tools Every Legal Team Needs (With Data-Backed Examples)

  Adopting technology is becoming more commonplace in the legal industry. But with a growing number of in-house tools available, deciding which tools are best for your department is a challenging p...

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• In-House Counsel

  Create a Change Management Plan with These 5 Key Building Blocks

  Creating a change management plan is a lot like preparing to build a house: You can’t construct a sturdy structure without first creating a blueprint, and you won’t make much headway if you d...

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• Legal Operations

  4 Ways Legal Ops and Vendor Partnerships Benefit Both Parties

  All relationships require work, and the business relationship between legal ops teams and their vendors is no exception. Unfortunately, legal ops teams often rely on a single, pre-existing connec...

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• Legal Operations

  Legal Project Management: 7 Ways Legal Ops Can Level Up

  A legal team’s most valuable currency is time. At every company in every industry, legal teams look for ways to maximize this precious resource. Too often, tasks like document, matter, and invo...

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• Legal Tech

  Legal Ops: 6 Signs Your Electronic Billing System Isn’t As Powerful as You Think

  Electronic billing involves far more than just paying bills online. A truly powerful legal e-Billing system also provides spend management capabilities that give you full visibility into how and ...

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• In-House Counsel

  Best Law Books: The Ultimate Reading List for Legal Professionals

  Looking for the best law books to fill out your legal library? Whether you’re a legal ops professional, prospective law student, or anyone working in the legal industry, you’re sure to find s...

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• In-House Counsel

  Outside Counsel Guidelines: 7 Things You Might Have Missed

  Outside counsel guidelines (OCG) vary widely by company and sometimes span hundreds of pages, theoretically covering every possible situation that can arise between in-house and outside counsel. ...

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