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2024-05-24

Roadmap for Legal Operations in Law Firms

Legal Operations: Roadmap for Law Firms – Training Course

Legal Operations: Roadmap for Law Firms is a training course hosted by InvestCEE LegalTech Consultancy designed to provide strategic guidance to optimizing legal service delivery with technology. This course is dedicated to law firm leaders and decision-makers (owners, partners, operations managers, IT and process leaders). Register to join the upcoming live session!

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.

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.

2021-11-16

LegalTech ROI Calculation: expert insights

Investing in legal technology is fundamentally a business decision: will the benefits of the investment outweigh the costs? Return on the investment must justify the effort and expense of upgrading a legal team’s infrastructure and skills. A return-on-investment (ROI) calculation should help the decision making process with realistic numbers and flexible variables to account for different users and use cases. In this article, InvestCEE’s legaltech advisor Chuck Henrich explains what metrics legal teams should take into account in calculating ROI for tech-assisted legal services, and how to do it.

2021-07-08

Contracting with Technology Tips and Tricks

Improving Contracting with Technology: Tips & Tricks

Seamless contracting is a top priority for all organizations, irrespective of company size and industry. Technology is within reach to assist with certain parts of the contract lifecycle or to manage the entire process on a single platform (end-to-end). Yet despite the abundance of tools available, there are many impediments to change for better contracting habits. Here’s an overview of three typical challenges and our best-practice tips for improving contracting with technology.

2021-04-07

How is Data Analytics Relevant for Lawyers?

In a digital economy, the value of legal work largely results from core human expertise multiplied by the ability to efficiently “package” legal know-how into technology. Legal analytics tools designed for lawyers allow a shift away from the billable hour and enable workflow data analytics that capture core human expertise.

2020-08-18

Data-driven legal services practice management

Capturing the value of legal services: data-driven practice management

Traditionally lawyers have been measuring the value of their input in correlation with the time spent on legal work. While tracking time is relatively quick and easy, capturing the true worth of legal services can be a challenge. Yet demonstrating added value is increasingly needed in light of a changing economy and client pressures to reduce bills. Digital tools designed for the legal industry allow a shift away from the billable hour and enable workflow data analytics that capture valuable human expertise.

2020-07-30

Legal Practice Management Software Review Part 2

Legal Practice Management: Essentials for Small to Mid-Size Firms

A legal practice management system structures legal work with workflows and information that support the business of law. Business metrics are equally important to small and large law firms, yet until recently, smaller firms and solo lawyers could not afford the IT infrastructure and administration involved in a legal practice management system. This article highlights questions to ask vendors when shopping around for cloud-based legal practice management.

2020-07-01

Legal Practice Management Software Review

Matters.Cloud Legal Practice Management for Small to Mid-Size Firms

When selecting a cloud-based legal practice management solution, lawyers need to assess how well a vendor understands how to support digital legal services; simplifies the tasks involved in digitally managing clients, matters, finances, and documents; and handles data security. InvestCEE selected Matters.Cloud to feature on the LegalTech Marketplace because it meets those requirements especially for the smaller firms in our legal innovation ecosystem.

2020-05-17

Legal Practice Management Webinar: Matters.Cloud

Investing in a cloud-based practice management software can boost operational efficiency and streamline task flow management for law firms of all sizes, including solo practitioners. Matters.Cloud is hosting this legal practice management webinar to offer insights into its latest features and enable taking an informed decision about investing the time, effort, and money required to make the most of their cloud-based tool.