Attorney at Work

AUGUST 26, 2021

Contract attorneys have made it possible for legal organizations to level up their teams’ expertise without increasing headcount. . In many cases, this meant that they, like their law firm counterparts, hired contract attorneys to fill in gaps, provide niche expertise and keep costs in check.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Artificial intelligence has gone from science fiction to boardroom reality, and if youre an in-house lawyer, chances are youre grappling with its implications already. The rise of Generative AI and Agentic AI isnt just reshaping industries; its creating legal and ethical questions that demand attention.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

For in-house lawyers, the legal landscape has always been unpredictable. Embrace Uncertainty In-house lawyers learned to embrace uncertainty the hard way during the pandemic. When you embrace the reality that control is an illusion, you stop wasting time trying to manage the unmanageable. Lets face it. It probably does.

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Above The Law

MARCH 7, 2025

To understand the challenges legal teams face, our friends at LegalOn surveyed 286 GCs, in-house counsels, contract managers, and legal operations professionals to understand the challenges legal teams face. Legal teams spent an average of 188 working days on contract review last year.

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Above The Law

MAY 2, 2025

The conference will span four days (May 5-8) and is the premier event designed by and for legal operations professionals and in-house legal departments. Legal operations (ops) professionals, for those unfamiliar, manage the business and administrative activities of legal practice.

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Above The Law

MAY 9, 2025

I attended a fascinating presentation at this years CLOC Global Institute which focused on the results from the most recent CLOC in-house survey, which for the first time was conducted in collaboration with Harbor , a provider of legal services supporting law firms and corporate legal departments.

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Above The Law

APRIL 1, 2025

For the last couple years, legal tech shows mostly involve vendors explaining how they’ve “ slapped some AI on ” their products and vaguely promising that some future iteration of AI will arrive to assist every step of the attorney workflow. However, this doesn’t make generative AI any less revolutionary.

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LawVu

MAY 8, 2025

A well-optimized legal team acts as an accelerator for the business: supporting core functions, unlocking opportunities to scale, and driving strategic outcomes. Thats why corporate legal departments are integral partners to their organizations. What is legal friction? What is a legal workspace?

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LawVu

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Effective matter management is critical for in-house counsel. After all, managing the daily flow of legal requests is the bread and butter of any legal function. What is a legal matter? However, the reality of in-house legal work is that it routinely extends beyond these parameters.

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LawVu

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Tauranga, 26 February 2025 LawVu, the leading legal workspace for in-house legal teams, has reaffirmed its commitment to transforming legal spend management and e-billing with significant new investments and innovations.

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The Estrin Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

HR Manager, attorney, paralegal, marketing manager, may describe your role but it sure ain’t fun. Great”, said the HR Manager. “We By Chere B. COVID-19 has led a lot of people to search for a brand new position. and that they had been looking quite awhile with no success. I am, after all, supposed to be a career specialist. .

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

In our forthcoming Spring 2025 publication, Fighting the Hypothetical: Why Law Firms Should Rethink the Billable Hour in the Generative AI Era, [1] we hypothesize that Generative AI (GenAI) technology will change forever how legal services are delivered and will force law firms to re-engineer their legacy economic model.

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LawVu

MAY 4, 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) continues to transform the legal sector, continuously offering new ways to enhance efficiency and decision-making for in-house legal teams. As you begin to survey the AI-powered legal tech market, youll notice the terms generative AI, extractive AI and possibly even agentic AI appear on repeat.

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LawVu

MAY 4, 2025

With the power to enhance workflows, automate repetitive tasks, and deliver unmatched efficiency, the value that AI tools bring to in-house counsel can no longer be ignored. For legal teams, choosing secure and reliable tools that deliver accurate, high-quality results is critical to ensuring that AI is used responsibly.

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LawVu

JANUARY 9, 2025

What is legal matter management software and why is it important? Legal teams have a critical role in modern organizations, acting as both protectors and enablers. To learn more about the benefits of in-house legal matter management software, check out our matter management guide.

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CARET Legal

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Legal practice management software (LPMS) offers a comprehensive platform that can streamline a wide range of in-house legal functions, from contract management to compliance oversight. LPMS solutions, like CARET legal, can streamline this process through automation and centralization.

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Above The Law

APRIL 2, 2025

At one point, early in the generative AI era, I wondered if developing this technology to essentially take over first-pass review and hand senior lawyers who view computers much like the Supreme Court views voting rights access to interrogate discovery materials might deal a devastating blow to the alternative legal service provider sector.

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LawVu

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

In-house legal teams are under more pressure than ever in 2024. As many in-house teams are discovering, one of the most effective ways to meet the rising demands on the legal function is to invest in optimizing the way that legal services are delivered to the business.

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LawVu

JANUARY 26, 2025

The in-house legal profession is undergoing a rapidly accelerating transformation. It is now imperative for legal leaders to operate at the same or higher levels of sophistication in leadership, management, and operations as our peers on the business leadership team.

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Attorney at Work

APRIL 15, 2022

When you open the app and create a new notebook, you can choose from a variety of different templates including legal paper. Having entered the second quarter of 2022, more than a few of us are wondering whether to upgrade our productivity toolbox. You can also customize it and upload your own templates.

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LawVu

MAY 8, 2025

New research exposes the millions in operational costs shouldered by businesses as a result of under-resourced in-house legal teams and presents a critical opportunity for organizations to drive revenue by investing in legal as a powerful accelerator of growth. Legal friction comes at a quantifiable cost to the business.

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LawSites

APRIL 30, 2025

Contract management is emerging as the top use case for generative artificial intelligence in legal departments, according to a new survey of in-house legal professionals released today, the 2025 AI Impact on In-House Legal Teams Survey Report.

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LawVu

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Where and how we work has become a worldwide conundrum in recent years, and in-house legal teams are discovering that like most other industries, they are expected to do more with less in both human and financial terms. In other words, poor matter management has become a genuine concern. What is legal matter management?

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LawVu

MARCH 31, 2025

As a leading provider of legal technology software, LawVu maintains close contact with our customers and the broader in-house legal community, ensuring we are always aware of emerging trends and able to deliver on our mission, which is to support and accelerate the work of the worlds corporate legal teams.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

MAY 6, 2022

According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment of paralegals and legal assistants is projected to grow 12 percent from 2020 to 2030, faster than the average for all occupations. Paralegals and legal assistants held about 345,600 jobs in 2020. Federal Government 5%. Local government, excluding education and hospitals 4%.

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LawVu

DECEMBER 18, 2024

In-house legal teams come in a variety of shapes and sizes, and often originate from humble beginnings. What is the function of an in-house legal team? To understand the optimal way to structure an in-house legal team, its critical to first be clear about what legal is really there to do.

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Knackly

MAY 9, 2025

Docassemble is the go-to for legal document automation among developers and legal tech pros. But it can be a challenge for legal teams who need a faster (and easier) setup. Its especially popular in the legal world because it can handle complex document logic and automate time-consuming paperwork. What Is Docassemble?

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LawVu

JANUARY 20, 2025

Probably because I didnt know any better at the time, and unlike the majority of my graduating law school class, I started my legal career in-house. Due to the circumstances of my first real legal job back in 2000, I became GC (whilst 100 percent not qualified for that title) within weeks of starting at a Fintech Dotcom in London.

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LawSites

MAY 9, 2023

Does the corporate legal market need yet another contract lifecycle management product? Bloomberg Law says it is because existing contract solutions are difficult to deploy, difficult to use, and not designed for attorney workflows. Well, Bloomberg Law thinks it does. Why is this?

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Paralegal Bootcamp

APRIL 8, 2022

In addition, certified paralegals and paralegals who work in certain states are required to continually update their legal education. . They wish to dive into the depths in order to broaden their legal education, deepen their understanding, diversify their skills, and learn new areas of the law. Maximize Continuing Legal Education.

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LawSites

MARCH 20, 2024

Fast Company is out with its annual ranking of the world’s most innovative companies , and of the 606 companies that made the list, just four are from legal tech. ” Here are the four legal tech companies that made the list, based on my review. “They lead their fields and are transforming the world.”

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LawSites

JANUARY 11, 2022

In its largest deal so far in a recent string of acquisitions, Onit , the Houston company that provides enterprise workflow products for corporations and corporate legal departments, has acquired SecureDocs , a Santa Barbara, Calif., software company with products for contract management, virtual deal rooms and electronic signatures.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

DECEMBER 9, 2022

With this being the case, we focus on a variety of paralegal, legal assistant, and administrative assistant legal positions in our home country. In this week’s blog, I will take a broader look at the paralegal profession as a whole. Familiar readers of the blog know that our company, Paralegal Bootcamp , is based out of the US.

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LawVu

MAY 4, 2025

The adoption of AI-powered legal technology has become an inevitable milestone for corporate legal departments. But, as with most modern technology, ensuring success when introducing AI capabilities into your legal operations isnt just about the tools you choose its about how you use them. What is a single source of truth?

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LawVu

MARCH 4, 2025

LawVu has been recognized as a Representative Vendor in the Market Guide for the second year running, which we believe reinforces our ability to deliver critical capabilities and market-leading innovation to enhance corporate legal department operations. These capabilities are non-negotiable for an efficient in-house function.

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Onit today announced the general availability of InvoiceAI, an artificial intelligence product for first-pass invoice review, and along with it comes a clever promotional video that plays on the threat of AI world domination and legal professionals’ ambivalence around AI. Elfman , CEO and cofounder of Onit.

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The Estrin Report

JUNE 26, 2023

Here are the top 9 concerns, questions, and hottest topics for today’s job market The Goldman Sachs white paper states that 44% of all legal jobs will be replaced by AI and that it will virtually wipe out the paralegal role. Even tighter, is the legal market. Will this happen to paralegals? What’s the job market like right now?

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