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With this LegalTech blog, we aim to inspire engagement with legal technology tools in a creative and transformative manner. Most of our posts are inspired by project work with our LegalTech Marketplace partners and contain references to their solutions. We share strategic insights to help increase the value of legal services and optimize business processes.

2023-10-29

Legal Department Reporting: Actionable Strategy – Training Course

Best-in-Class Legal Reporting is a training course hosted by InvestCEE LegalTech Consultancy in collaboration with Xakia Technologies and provides practical guidance to corporate legal reporting tasks and an actionable strategy for in-house teams. Join the course to access the know-how in our ecosystem!

2023-10-23

Navigating Legal AI: Training, Toolkit & Consulting

To help legal and business leaders explore strategies and best practices with AI solutions, we onboarded new advisors and partners to offer a more holistic Legal AI Advisory service line in addition to our existing LegalTech Marketplace - select software solutions & implementation know-how. Learn about our training course offering and how our experts navigate this complex field.

2023-05-20

High-Volume Contracting & Digital Contract Management – Training Course

High-Volume Contracting & Digital Contract Management is a training course hosted by InvestCEE LegalTech Consultancy in collaboration with our LegalTech Marketplace partner Dealsign. In this joint course offering, we provide corporate in-house lawyers practical guidance to optimizing large scale digital contracting projects.

2023-05-11

Next Level Law Firm: Marketing & Delivering Tech-Assisted Legal Solutions

As technological challenges continue to pressure legal service providers, it's more important than ever to stay ahead of the curve on the innovation considerations when it comes to law firm management. Yet for many small and mid-size law firms, implementing technology continues to challenge internal approval processes and client-facing marketing strategies.

2023-05-01

Legal Operations Resources - Support Pack

Navigating Legal Operations: Roadmap & Support Pack

Despite the short history of this new discipline, legal operations has become increasingly popular because it answers key questions about efficiency and effectiveness in legal work: how can a corporate legal department best deploy its team of smart lawyers and its technical resources to advance the organization’s goals, safeguard the business from all sorts of risks and protect corporate values?

2023-03-25

LegalTech Case Study: Matter Management & Data Hub with Xakia

InvestCEE LegalTech Consultancy and their LegalTech Marketplace partner ‘Xakia’ assisted Škoda Auto's legal department in improving legal operations with matter management and data analytics. Škoda Auto needed a legal matter management software that would prompt more targeted and impactful discussions with management regarding their performance and needs as a legal department, in turn leading to more influential internal and external business decisions.

2022-12-14

Smarter Legal Budget InvestCEE LegalTech Tools

Planning and Budgeting for Legal Teams: Smarter with Technology

Legal teams are increasingly required to deliver their professional service as a business. Corporate legal departments and law firms are equally expected to contribute more to their clients’ optimization efforts and to offer solutions in strategic initiatives. Irrespective of the size of a legal team, drafting a formal annual budget is a necessity. This article helps in-house counsel and law firm attorneys discover best practices, access free templates and start testing tools to get their legal budget in shape.

2022-11-02

LegalTech Case Study: Document Automation

InvestCEE LegalTech Consultancy and their LegalTech Marketplace partner ‘Ment’ assisted Fujirebio’s European operations in implementing document automation technology in their legal department. The legaltech advisory team worked closely with Fujirebio Europe’s in-house counsel based in Ghent, Belgium to source and implement the adequate platform corresponding to their specific legal workstream needs.

2022-10-07

Legal Design Thinking Lawyers Design School

Humanizing Legal Technology: Lawyers Design School Interview with InvestCEE

In September 2022, Hannele Korhonen from Lawyers Design School invited InvestCEE founder and CEO Orsolya Szabó for a LinkedIn live chat to discuss using design thinking methodologies for implementing legal technology solutions. As an advisory firm on a mission to "humanize legaltech", i.e. to help lawyers optimize their work and showcase their value-add through legal technology, this interview very well describes our approach to tech-assisted legal services. For the original transcript of the video interview, stop by on the Lawyers Design School blog.

2022-09-07

AIJA Seminar in Krakow: The Art of the Deal, LegalTech in M&A Transactions

The M&A Commission and the Commercial Fraud Commission of AIJA invited InvestCEE LegalTech Consultancy to join the Kraków seminar for panel discussions and exchange views about using legaltech in M&A projects (share or assets deals).

2022-06-17

Digital Contract Management Pre-Signing Strategy Paper

Digital Contracting: Improving the Pre-Signing Phase (Strategy Paper, Part I)

Complex workstreams like contract management often require a set of viable strategies to improve internal efficiencies in an organization. Working closely with our clients in this professional context, we found that fine-tuning first the pre-signature and then the post-signature phase of contracting helps better manage the overall process. In June 2022, InvestCEE LegalTech Consultancy released Part I of our new strategy paper series dedicated to improving the pre-signing phase of contracting - the full PDF copy can be accessed in this article.

2022-04-28

Legal Technology Audit: Digital Maturity Survey & Analysis

When conducting a legal technology audit in a corporate in-house department or law firm (of any size), we assess a legal team's digital maturity and help define an innovation strategy going forward. A LegalTech audit is a preliminary step for thoughtfully implementing emerging technologies into corporate legal operations and law firm practice. Our assessment report along with an overview of new and innovative tools designed for legal work, enables lawyers to streamline their daily tasks, build business flexibility into their practices and provide a more effective and highly responsive legal service.