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...
Read MoreMatter 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...
Read MoreCorporate 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...
Read MoreAs many legal teams know, creating legal matters can be a time-consuming process and a source of constant frustration. If you don’t have legal tech in place to facilitate matter creation, you...
Read MoreThe billing process naturally introduces tension between in-house legal teams and law firms. Surprise fees that lack justification, unauthorized charges, invoices submitted weeks or months after ...
Read MoreWe’re sitting down with legal professionals to learn more about their roles and responsibilities, uncover useful insights and best practices, and discuss their view on the future and evolution ...
Read MoreWe’re sitting down with legal professionals to learn more about their roles and responsibilities, uncover useful insights and best practices, and discuss their view on the future of legal and l...
Read MoreGeneral counsel have always acted as the protectors of their organizations, providing legal advice to ensure that their company is acting in accordance with the law. However, today’s volatile a...
Read MoreThis post was updated on May 17, 2018 Corporate legal departments are shifting their thinking. No longer are law firms “just vendors”, but strategic partners who provide their expertise to he...
Read MoreLegal billing guidelines, also known as outside counsel billing guidelines, are a great way for legal departments to communicate their expectations of their law firms and vendors. However, withou...
Read MoreA couple weeks ago, we published the first post in this series which focused on the intangible benefits of alternative fee arrangements (AFAs). Today’s post will highlight the process for deter...
Read MoreHave you ever heard the words LEDES file mentioned, and think to yourself what is that? Don’t worry, you’re not the only one! In this post, we’re sharing what a LEDES file is, and how it he...
Read MoreIt’s been roughly ten years since best-selling author, Scott Turow, penned the cover story for the American Bar Association journal titled, ‘The Billable Hour Must Die.’ During this time Tu...
Read MoreLegal accruals and how to manage them is a common topic brought up in conversations with our customers. On our blog, we’ve shared a brief introduction to accruals management and have discussed ...
Read MoreLitigation costs are some of the most challenging spend categories for an insurer to manage. Both the legal and claims departments must work together to strike the right balance of cost containme...
Read MoreMany in-house legal teams are familiar with accruals, also known as unbilled estimates or the amounts that law firms estimate for work in progress. Unfortunately, unbilled estimates are difficult...
Read More*This article originally appeared on The Recorder Adopting technology is becoming more commonplace in legal. But, with a growing number of tools promising increased operational efficiency and red...
Read MoreLeveraging a variety of outside counsel is common for legal teams of all sizes. Also common is the difficulty for some teams in managing the contacts and firms, the projects each firm is working ...
Read MoreIn a Altman Weil survey of large and midsize law firms, 95% said they use Alternative Fee Arrangements (AFAs). Two-thirds of these firms report their use of AFAs is primarily reactive in response...
Read MoreSince the publication of the GC Open Letter, announcing a real-time exercise to test industry assumptions to better understand how to improve the legal market, there’s been a lot of chatter aro...
Read MoreAt SimpleLegal, we understand (and love!) that our users are in the system on a daily basis. Because of that, it’s always been our goal to provide GCs, legal operations professionals, and in-h...
Read MoreIn part I of our accruals management series, we summarized why accruals are important, and how legal operations departments tend to be more equipped to own the accruals process than finance depar...
Read MoreLast month, hundreds of legal operations professionals gathered at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, taking part in the 2nd annual CLOC Institute, the largest legal operations event in history. The orga...
Read MoreThe legal operations industry is still in its infancy, so discovering content geared towards legal operations professionals can be tricky. We’ve scoured the internet to find the most useful...
Read MoreAn invoice from outside counsel is received. It’s reviewed by the in-house legal team. It’s approved (or sometimes rejected, sent back to the outside vendor for modifications, and the...
Read MoreBusinesses today are emphasizing the importance of understanding corporate expenditures and ROI. This, of course, includes outside counsel spend. In-house legal departments are no longer exempt f...
Read MorePart of the challenge as a general counsel is getting the best work out of your outside counsel for the best value. Even with good intentions, it doesn’t always pan out this way. Your prioritie...
Read MoreAs a general counsel, you rely on your outside counsel and in-house expertise to direct your company in the right direction. You’ll read through dozens of case studies, a mountain of text, and ...
Read MoreAs corporate law stretches and changes under the weight of new business structures, so too has the role of general counsel. Tasked with overseeing the legal footprint of their companies, general ...
Read MoreCorporate law departments are spending more on in-house resources than on law firms or external legal service providers, with the percentage of general counsel stating their companies need dedica...
Read MoreAs corporate law stretches and changes under the weight of new business structures, so too has the role of the general counsel. Tasked with overseeing the legal footprint of their companies, gene...
Read MoreRaising the Bar We understand why general counsel at some companies put off buying a legal e-Billing system as long as they possibly can. Software from legacy vendors can be clunky and hard to s...
Read MoreWhy Are We Spending So Much in Legal? One SimpleLegal customer (a public tech company with legal department that grew from a team of 1 to a team of 14) was told by his finance department that he ...
Read MoreI’m lucky. I get to live in the future. I see self-driving cars every single day. We all live in the future in our personal lives. We can click a button to summon a car for a lift t...
Read MoreAt SimpleLegal, we believe data can change the world. We also believe, it doesn’t have to be complicated. Simple isn’t easy, but it’s worth it. That’s why I get excited w...
Read MoreWe’re committed to bringing transparency to CFOs for every expense entry on their P&Ls. We started with legal expense because it has the biggest opportunity for improvement. Customers w...
Read MoreControlling the Chaos SimpleLegal is the easiest way for a company to understand and reduce their legal spend. Instead of piles of paper or emailed PDFs, we offer one place to receive, review, an...
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