Name Ari Dyball ..read more

Business moves fast, and expects everybody to move fast with it. After all, business drives profit, and anybody who slows down business, slows down profit. Right? With this mindset, the Legal Department metric that business cares about most is velocity, or turnaround time ..read more

If you run a household on a tight budget, you need to look at your spend every week (perhaps every day!) to understand where your limited resources are being spent. You might pore over your bank account statements, the latest store discounts, looking for every opportunity to save money. Critical facts: what is your bank balance, what is coming in, and what is going out.  ..read more

I can’t stop thinking about our recent experience at the IPMI Healthcare Law and Compliance Institute. In late February, Nolan O’Connor and I headed to the beautiful Ritz Carlton Resort in Orlando to engage with a powerhouse group of hospital and healthcare lawyers and, we thought, educate them on the benefits of modern legal matter management.   ..read more

Across the legal sector, generative AI has dominated headlines for the past year. Specific to the in-house community, it’s been reported that 25 percentto83 percent of Legal Departments are using AI tools.   ..read more

Contracts are often the backbone of an in-house legal department - whether it is procurement, sales, employment or any other myriad types of contracts, they must be requested, drafted, reviewed, negotiated, executed and managed. At least a portion of this lifecycle sits with the legal department, but increasingly over the past decade the entire contract lifecycle management has become the responsibility of the corporate legal department ..read more

If you work in a small Legal Department, you may feel out of the loop when it comes to legal technology. And that’s no surprise, given the vast amount of resources and attention aimed at larger Legal Departments.  ..read more

LegalWeek… a world unto itself. No matter how much I try to prepare myself mentally, it’s never enough. Combining the hustle and bustle of mid-town New York with the first major legal event of the year makes for a legal conference on steroids. I’m late to the party in putting pen to paper, but I felt like I had to digest the on-the-ground experience alongside the (sometimes) quieter discussions after the event.  ..read more

Name Deniz O'Ryan ..read more

Your lawyers are busy, there’s no doubt about that – it’s evident from their long hours, that long list of projects, and perhaps a (now annual) budget overage ..read more