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Law firm benchmarking brings valuable context to data points about your vendors, helping you optimize your legal spending....

KPIs show your legal department’s value to your company. Find out how to measure performance even without complete data....

Reporting on your legal spend management doesn’t have to be complicated. Find out how to handle the process quickly and efficiently....

By reviewing real-world examples of law firm data breaches, in-house GCs can make sure their organization doesn’t fall prey to the same mistakes....

The key to creating a sustainable legal diversity program is structured planning. Get your program off the ground and create lasting change with these 7 steps....

For real change to happen, companies must be willing to have let go of firms that don't improve. Here's how these Consero panelists leveraged data to support their DE&I initiatives....

The value of legal data analytics isn’t about the information itself; it’s about how legal departments apply that knowledge to transform a business....

As general counsel responsibilities continue to expand, GCs must step outside their comfort zones to move the legal department and business forward. ...

Legal data gives you the power to predict spend and team efficiency. Learn how to collect and leverage the right data set for cost savings, and more. ...

If you’re new to legal analytics, figuring out what to do with a mountain of legal data can be daunting. Learning the basics gives you a roadmap for success....

It’s much easier to create a shared, objective definition of success with your vendors when you can reliably track vendor performance metrics to incorporate into their evaluations....

Relying on spreadsheets for legal department reporting negatively impacts your legal ops team and leads to less effective business decisions. Here's how modern legal technology helps....

Over the past 11 years, there has only been a 3.9% increase in minority representation in top law firms. Here's why increasing that percentage matters and two actions you can take to increase it....

Legal ops needs to use hard data to prove their value in order to build better relationships, secure their budget, and prevent budget cuts....

Whether you're new to legal ops or are an industry veteran, see which reports legal ops professionals are leveraging to drive decision making, demonstrate departmental value, and more!...

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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Reports and dashboards are an important part of modern legal operations. This whitepaper lists 9 essential reports that every GC is looking for, and what data is needed to build them....

Learn how SimpleLegal helped Young Adult Institute cut the time to pay legal invoices in half and make reporting on legal expenses much easier....

In a session discussing the hidden potential of data at last month’s ACC Annual Meeting, we learned that only 39% of legal departments say they collect and analyze data – only 6.6% of those d...

Leveraging 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 ...

We love data at SimpleLegal and have seen countless benefits, from cost savings to more informed decision making, for corporate legal departments and legal operations teams that have access to th...

Since 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...

“Just because it’s obvious doesn’t mean it’s easy. A lot of legal operations are complex, for sure. But a lot of what we do is putting common sense into motion.” These resonant words fr...

Why 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 ...