What is Legal Operations?
Learn more about the concept of Legal Operations and how it can help your company or legal department to run more efficiently and make better decisions.
Legal Operations
Legal operations (or legal ops) is a discipline that effectively combines business processes, human expertise and innovative technologies to help legal departments run more efficiently and make better decisions. It enables these departments to focus on providing its advisory role and therefore deliver more strategic value to the enterprise.
Why Legal Operations?
As companies grow and expand today, departmental and organizational obstacles are becoming painfully clear. Traditional workflows and a lack of automation increase risk, make business processes unpredictable and slow down progress.
Legal ops provides an innovative answer to these problems of efficiency, cost-effectiveness and transparency. It is a discipline that teaches people to specialize in management, planning and to get the most out of data driven technology.
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What legal operations delivers
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Drive efficiency
Legal operations is about removing departmental obstacles and organizational bottlenecks to drive efficiency to an optimal level.
Increase transparency
Effective management of legal operations includes continuous monitoring of all operational data to enhance departmental transparency.
Reduce legal expenses
Hiring the right people to handle legal ops boosts departmental efficiency and relieves overqualified professionals from operational tasks.
Accelerate the business
With enhanced efficiency, transparency and significant cost-reduction, your legal department will be ready to speed up business processes instead of slowing them down.
12 competencies to achieve operational excellence
Legal operations is commonly broken down into twelve competencies, covering everything from data and finance to technology and training.
Training & Development
Provide educational programmes to enhance expertise within the department.
Technology
Drive efficiency and solve problems through innovation and technology.
Strategic Planning
Define long-term strategic goals to grow and protect the business.
Service Delivery Models
Distribute case work to specialized groups, in-house or externally.
Project / Program Management
Train legal teams to manage large-scale, company wide projects.
Practice Operations
Let the legal department focus on practicing law instead of operational tasks.
Organization Optimization & Health
Create a healthy space for group and personal development.
Knowledge Management
Make knowledge resources accessible company-wide.
Information Governance
Formulate clear information policies to minimize risk.
Firm & Vendor Management
Improve accessibility for vendors to create new business opportunities.
Financial Management
Optimize resources through sustainable & strategic investments.
Business Intelligence
Use data and measurements to make well-informed decisions.
Services to elevate your Legal Operations
Whether you’re representing a small business or a global enterprise, investing in legal ops is always applicable. Perhaps your company is in need of consulting on how to set up its own in-house legal operations team and technological infrastructure. Or would you rather just outsource parts of or even your entire legal ops to us? Whatever it is, we take care of it.
Looking for more efficiency?
Ready to unburden your legal department? Schedule a call with us to receive free advice and insight into your business case. We look forward to hearing from you.
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