2021-11-16
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.
2021-10-08
In a recent legaltech implementation project, InvestCEE LegalTech Consultancy and our LegalTech Marketplace vendor Dealsign brought end-to-end digital contract management to a leading player in the CEE region's online food ordering industry. In a multi-disciplinary teamwork that included our client's operational, legal, HR and IT departments, the project focused on shifting from paper-based traditional contracting (with ink-on-paper signatures) to 100% virtual contract management.
2021-07-08
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.
2020-11-20
Legal innovation conference Legal Accelerators will take place virtually next week on November 26-27 and we are delighted to be a part of it! InvestCEE Founder & CEO Orsolya Szabó will share practical insights on data-driven legal services and host a strategic planning workshop for legal teams on Day 1. Check out the event agenda and sign up to join the discussion! We empower legal departments and law firms to put data culture in the center of their value-added legal service delivery. For this, we bring together legal and business know-how, legal technology solutions, strategic consulting and implementation expertise as a unique approach to help our clients provide a new generation of legal services. This strategic planning webinar session is a unique opportunity for legal teams to understand how to combine legal technology solutions with their particular expertise and package legal services into digital tools.
2020-08-18
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
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
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.
2020-06-02
We are joining the legal operations evaluation project launched by Xakia Technologies to assess the state of in-house legal departments. The survey tool underlying the project is the Legal Operations Health Check created by Xakia three years ago - still available until June 30, 2020. Then, jointly with other organizations in the legal industry (Legal Operators, UpLevel Ops, Ascertus Limited, Norton Rose Fulbright and Lawit Group) we will prepare an eBook summarizing the trends and benchmarks globally. Click to access survey and find out more!
2020-05-17
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.
2020-04-14
We are continuing the webinar and online event series to share our legaltech toolkit & know-how with legal and business teams across Central Eastern Europe (CEE). This time, we invite you to discover how our partner platform Aivan.AI champions contract data management by optimizing access to key information in the contract life-cycle. The virtual session takes place on Tuesday, May 5, 11am CET and features a live demo of the Aivan.AI platform.
2020-04-05
We are launching a blogpost series to showcase the contract management and contract data review capabilities of our legal innovation ecosystem. As part of the series, we will demonstrate how our partner platform Aivan.AI responds to certain common issues business teams face in the post-signing phase of contracting. In step 1, we will address one of the most obvious flaws in contract management: once signing occurred, contracts often become passive documents. In this post, we share some valuable insights as to how Aivan.AI helps activate contract databases.
2020-03-20
We have also recognized that beyond the immediate human health aspect, there are additional, economic concerns that need to be dealt with in the current circumstances. And lawyers may have a special role to play in this regard. Enabling access to digital legal tools, easing the flow of goods and services, helping to virtually run our economies (locally and regionally) and getting creative about legal services will be essential going forward. To support legal teams through this period, we are here to team up and make use of the know-how we've accumulated in our legal innovation ecosystem. Here's a summary of how we are able to help.