Reducing Digital Carbon Footprints of Digital Technologies in the Cloud Cloud technologies continue to be an accelerating factor in the digital transformation of legal departments and law firms. Thomson Reuters 2022 Legal Department Operations Index highlighted that half of all departments surveyed expected to increase their use of legal technologies, and of those e-billing, e-signatures,and…
How can corporations reduce digital carbon footprints CARBON FOOTPRINTS The “What are Digital Carbon Footprints” explored the environmental impact of our digital lifestyles. In that we discovered that even though many digital technologies offer a much lower carbon footprint compared to physical alternatives, such as e-signatures vs printed and mailed documents, digital does have a…
What are digital carbon footprints? CARBON FOOTPRINTS According to NORA, there were 15 billion-dollar climate disasters in the first nine months of 2022 alone. Billion dollar disasters such as these have increased in frequency from an average of one per 82 days going back to the 1980, to just 18 days. As a result, many…
Digitalisation for legal services. Basic concepts. When talking about digitalisation, it is important to be clear about the concepts that revolve around the incorporation of information technologies. It is not the same to have a digital documentation repository, a database that allows the study of progress in services or to have artificial intelligence capable of…
Why Legal Departments Need a Legal Data Analytics Strategy? As a consultant who has worked with legal departments across industries for many years, one commonality I have consistently observed is that all legal departments are in possession of an incredible amount of data. That data may be located in a number of disparate locations ranging…
6 Tips for Turbo-charging Legal Departments with Data As a Chief General Counsel, you have seen massive shifts in the legal domain. Contract drafts and review, research around case law, due diligence information or even simple operational information around spend, invoicing or counsel hire – your team is creating, editing or sharing phenomenal amounts of…
You may be forgiven for thinking that an article discussing the need for digital transformation could be slightly outdated. After all, we’re well into the third decade of digitisation. However, despite considerable discussion about, and acceptance of, the need for digital transformation within the corporate counsel environment, uncertainty remains about what technology to implement and…
Outside Counsel Guidelines (OCGs) help define the relationship between a corporate legal department and its partner firms. Aside from the What, When and How of the invoicing mechanics, many also cover the scope of the invoices themselves – setting out the restrictions and prohibitions on fees and expenses which must be followed to ensure invoices…
Corporate legal departments are managing a higher volume of information than at anytime before. At the same time, there is increased pressure on lawyers and legal operations teams to reduce costs, improve efficiencies and demonstrate more value. In order to meet the demands of today’s legal department, organisations are transforming their workforce into a digital…
The digital maturity of legal, where is your law firm or in-house team? Over the last four years, it has been seen how the legal market is evolving towards full digitisation. Legal services, based primarily on information and its treatment, are susceptible to improvement through knowledge technologies, which exponentially enhance efficiency, effectiveness and the way…
