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Picture this: An attorney spends five hours on a flight to take an out-of-town deposition for Client A. During that time, the attorney works on IP management research to use for projects for both...

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’...

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...

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...

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 ...

Intellectual property management can get complicated due to the sheer volume of paperwork, vendors, and invoices involved. Before you know it, you’re spending money on patent work without knowi...

Implementing a legal document management system can mean the difference between a legal department that functions like a well-oiled machine and one that constantly stalls and breaks down. Let’s...

While there are thousands of legal podcasts spanning hundreds of niche topics, the best legal podcasts combine great research, expert input, and engaging storytelling. We’ve done our own resear...

The LegalOps Highlight is a bi-weekly blog series that features relevant news, market trends and legal technology updates from the legal ecosystem. The content is curated from legal and business ...

Documents play a key role in the lives of the legal team. From contracts to memorandums, being able to store, manage, and locate important documents are critical to the department’s success. Th...

Have 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 ...

The LegalOps Highlight is a bi-weekly blog series that features relevant news, market trends and legal technology updates from the legal ecosystem. The content is curated from legal and business ...

Our Legal Technology Glossary is now live! Check out some of the top technology terms being used in the legal industry and help your legal ops department stay up to date with the latest in legal ...

Outside counsel work could easily cost you millions every year — but do you really know how, where, and why that money is being spent with each vendor you work with? A legal platform with e-Bil...

When done well, contract lifecycle management (CLM)* can significantly increase productivity and lower costs. However, if handled poorly, it can just as easily cause serious delays and open you u...

If you work with a lot of outside counsel, the type of legal billing software you choose will have a sizable impact on the overall efficiency of your billing process. Choosing software that strea...

If you want to be the best run department in your organization, you need to learn how to work backwards. This may sound a bit strange, but when you’re armed with legal analytics, you can look b...

The LegalOps Highlight is a bi-weekly blog series that features relevant news, market trends and legal technology updates from the legal ecosystem. The content is curated from legal and business ...

The LegalOps Highlight is a bi-weekly blog series that features relevant news, market trends and legal technology updates from the legal ecosystem. The content is curated from legal and business ...

    The LegalOps Highlight is a bi-weekly blog series that features relevant news, market trends and legal technology updates from the legal ecosystem. The content is curated from legal...

Many of the attorneys I’ve spoken with tell me that they “live in Outlook” to get work done. This makes a lot of sense if you think about all of the emails that hit their inboxes from their...

The LegalOps Highlight is a bi-weekly blog series that features relevant news, market trends and legal technology updates from the legal ecosystem. The content is curated from legal and business ...

SimpleLegal and Onit partnered with leading analyst firm IDC to present a webinar on the future of legal ops, highlighting market trends, change management, and predictions. Read on for a recap o...

Legal professionals from Crocs and Fitbit share their experiences and expert advice on how to build a strong business case for legal technology internally....

Nathan Wenzel, CEO of SimpleLegal, presents at ACC Xchange 2019 on how to align legal processes for success. ...

Legal Ops professionals from Veritas and Snowflake discuss best practices for billing guidelines, getting buy-in from peers and outside counsel as well solutions to common issues....

The LegalOps Highlight is a bi-weekly blog series that features relevant news, market trends and legal technology updates from the legal ecosystem. The content is curated from legal and business ...

Imagine that you’re at your desk, setting up a new matter in your matter management system. You remember that you have files stored in the document management system that your company uses, and...

The LegalOps Highlight is a bi-weekly blog series that features relevant news, market trends and legal technology updates from the legal ecosystem. The content is curated from legal and business ...

Legal operations has emerged to challenge the legal department standard. The function is overhauling departmental processes and identifying modern legal tech solutions with advanced capabilities ...

Learn the risks of staying on an outdated solution for e-Billing and matter management and how to migrate to a modern solution like SimpleLegal in 3 steps....

Receiving and reviewing invoices is a mundane and tedious task nearly every legal department faces each day. It can be frustrating when an invoice approval is stalled and you have no idea why, or...

For legal professionals interested in purchasing new legal software, the age old question of customizing software vs opting for a configurable out-of-the-box solution must be answered. To help th...

SimpleLegal CEO, Nathan Wenzel, shares why legal tech isn't a new idea and how legal teams can approach and think about technology....

Automation, digitization, cloud capabilities, artificial intelligence – these themes are all top of mind, tip of tongue, across C-suites. It all started with the device in your pocket, your sma...

Having worked with other legacy systems for e-Billing and matter management, the legal team at Instacart knew they needed a more modern solution to replace their highly manual invoicing process. ...

General counsel who traditionally reigned over risk, ethics, and compliance are now being asked to think about budget, technology, and operational efficiency. A handful of studies demonstrate the...

View Evolve the Law's Legal Tech Roundtable which discusses legal tech, the rise of the operations role, and how to overcome some of the most common challenges faced by emerging legal teams....

Last week, we partnered with Morae Global to host a panel discussion on the digital transformation currently taking shape within corporate legal departments across the world. Starting bright and ...

Evolve the Law gathers legal leaders to discuss the rise of legal ops, how to achieve quick wins for your department, and the role of technology both now and in the future....

I just had the pleasure of attending the Evolve the Law ‘Emerging Legal Departments: Legal Tech 101 Roundtable’ in Sunnyvale where Bay Area legal departments networked over breakfast and part...

We just wrapped up our ‘Best Practices for Selling the Investment in Legal Technology Internally’ webinar – what a great discussion! If you couldn’t make the webinar, we wanted to summari...

Learn how Instacart was able to save 10% in legal spend with the SimpleLegal Legal Operations platform....

Use our assessment to see if it's time to connect the technologies you use on a daily basis to create a streamlined and powerful legal tech stack....

Learn how Crocs leverages the SimpleLegal platform to support their complex invoicing workflows and global requirements....

Learn how KidKraft's legal team improved cross-functional alignment and enhanced their budgeting and reporting processes by using SimpleLegal as their system of record....

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 ...

Learn how AdRoll leveraged SimpleLegal to establish a true system of record for their legal department and significantly improve visibility into legal spend....

Watch this session, presented at CLOC 2018, to learn about the benefits of connecting your legal ops technologies and the different types of integrations....

This customizable project plan outlines key tasks that in-house legal departments often overlook when implementing legal technology....

Struggling to get internal buy in on the investment of a new legal technology? Use this template to sell the need to key stakeholders and help bring modern legal operations to your organization....

This questionnaire helps legal teams identify whether or not they are in need of a legal operations platform. Download it today and see for yourself!...

Do you think about your law firms when selecting an e-Billing provider? This whitepaper highlights 8 criteria to consider to ensure adoption by your law firms as well as your legal department....

New to accruals or looking for a better way to manage them? This guide shares best practices for collecting unbilled estimates, the 4 types of accruals, who should be involved, and much more!...

Stop chasing your law firms for monthly estimates! Download our template which provides a framework to train your outside counsel on properly calculating and submitting accruals....

Learn how Pacific Seafood eliminated manual processes and was able to make more data-driven and informed decisions by leveraging SimpleLegal....

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...

Circle looked to SimpleLegal for an easy-to-use, cost-efficient, and flexible solution that would grow with their department....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Earlier this year, SimpleLegal sponsored the annual CLOC Institute in Las Vegas. The event attracted thousands of legal operations professionals who were ready to learn from industry thought lead...

Our CEO, Nathan Wenzel, joined host and founder of QuantumJurist, Inc., Ian Connett, on the Evolve Law Podcast to talk all things legal operations. In addition to sharing a little background on S...

e-Billing is quickly becoming the technology of choice for legal departments – and for good reason. The solution acts as a system of record, enabling a legal team to efficiently manage the cont...

e-Billing software has been touted as the foundational legal technology for in-house counsel. It provides a way for legal departments to understand where and how their dollars are being allocated...

We’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...

Litigation 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...

Last week, the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC) released their First Annual State of the Industry Survey where more than one-third of CLOC member companies were polled to shed light ...

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...

Many e-Billing and legal spend management solutions are implemented to eliminate manual efforts and drive process efficiencies so in-house attorneys can focus on what matters most – practicing...

The legal field is dominated by giants including Legal Tracker (formerly Serengeti) offered by Thomson Reuters, CounselLink offered by LexisNexis, and TeamConnect offered by Mitratech. We might b...

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 ...

In 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...

Yesterday, we attended the EvolveLaw Tech Savvy In-House Counsel event with a group of legal thought leaders looking to dive deeper into how in-house counsel and legal operations are using techno...

Last week, we attended the EvolveLaw Tech Savvy In-House Counsel event with an incredible group of legal technology thought leaders. SimpleLegal CEO, Nathan Wenzel, gave a talk on a very thought-...

Switching out any enterprise software or homegrown solution can be a nightmare. Even making the decision to embrace legal technology can be a difficult task for an organization that has been fili...

This post isn’t just for corporate legal teams, but for any organization thinking they are too small or early to adopt enterprise software. A lot of conversations in the legal space are aro...

An 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...

Businesses 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...

As 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 ...

Raising 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...

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 ...

When talking to general counsel, legal operations teams and CFOs, I seem to hear this comment very often: We are too small for e-Billing. Why? What does that even mean. To qualify it – I do...

I’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...

The $390M acquisition of RelateIQ has provoked some interesting commentary about making data useful. The legal industry has historically been a late adopter of technology. A large part of a law...

It’s an exciting time in legal technology. New companies are creating modern, easy-to-use software for in-house legal teams. General Counsel have more choice and more control at lower price...

At SimpleLegal, we take data security very seriously. We’re writing to let our customers and prospective customers know about our response to the very serious bug found in the widely used, ...

We’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...

Good Question As I talk to potential and current customers, all conversations ultimately arrive at the same question: “So what do law firms think about you guys?” I hope they like us....

Controlling 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...