Legal operations software for corporate legal departments
Having a legal operations program can help your in-house counsel control costs, identify efficiencies and improve performance. We know every in-house legal department is different, but legal operations can help organizations across all industries better manage the business of law.
With legal operations, you can:
Streamline matter management processes
Centralizing legal information has never been so important. Having a clear, central list of legal requests, assignment and deadlines in one matter management system will give all members of your corporate legal department - remote or centralized - visibility to manage their work and communicate risk to the business.
Show how in-house legal counsel are supporting corporate objectives
Keep your legal team focused on legal matters that support and impact company priorities. Then, show your value through legal data analytics that speak the language of your internal clients.
Control your budget
Actively managing and tracking your budget in real-time with a legal spend management tool means you can adjust resources and projects to support your priorities.
Create faster and more meaningful reports
Remove the burden of administrative tasks by automating the process and produce analytics reports that your organization’s leadership can easily understand with legal analytics software.
Get started with legal operations today
If your team is new to legal operations, get started with the following resources below.
Workflow management
Success identifiers:
- Standard, central information collection from one cloud based legal software
- Triaging of work through one or more legal contact points
- “Self-help” tools such as frequently asked questions on your organization's intranet
Useful resources:
- Agile 101 for Legal Departments
- 12 Steps to a Smarter Legal Intake & Triage
- What Can Legal Operations Do For You?
- Legal Operations Health Check - Benchmarking Survey And Practical Tips
- Legal Department Resourcing Quadrant
- Client Portals For Real-Time Collaboration: An Essential Tool For A Dispersed Legal Department
- Workflow Management: Critical Issues
- Xakia and NetDocuments - The Books and Bookends of a Matter
How can Xakia's legal workflow management software help?
- A single, central source of truth
- Automate legal intake and triage
- Assign work and communicate with your clients easily
- Easily collaborate with your internal clients
In house legal team management
Success identifiers:
- KPIs align with organization and team strategy
- Continuing legal education opportunities
- Development plans that support individual growth in areas that are of benefit to your organization
Useful resources:
- Legal operations for small legal departments - where to start (and stop)
- Is your In-house Legal Department Advancing Strategy or Fighting Fires?
- 8 Steps To A Legal Department Strategic Plan And Template
- Tips: How To Take Your In-House Legal Department Remote Tomorrow
- LegalTech Change Management - Fostering a Pack Mentality
How can Xakia's legal matter management software help?
- Track the strategic value of your legal matters
- Automated analytics for career development
External resource management
Success identifiers:
- Identified quality and value
- Developed strategic relationships
Useful resources:
- Legal Spend Management: Help Your Law Firms Help You
- Three Elements Critical for Managing External Spend
- 10 Tactics for Handling Your Biggest Expense: External Resources
- The Data-Driven Legal Budget
How can Xakia's legal matter management software help?
- Track firm use
- Robust legal analytics to show effectiveness
- Access to Xakia Connect - a cloud-based portal for external resources to manage matters, users and invoices
Financial management
Success identifiers:
- Budgets set and monitored for individual engagements
- Documented and enforced billing guidelines
- Tracked annual legal budgets to ensure the root cause for any overrun is understood in order to introduce initiatives to rectify the overrun
Useful resources:
- Tips for Legal Department Budgets in 2023-24
- Legal Spend Management for Beginners
- 10 Steps To A Smarter In-House Legal Budget
- Budget Pressures: The Best Defense is a Good Offense
- Legal Department Budgeting: Three Key Considerations
How can Xakia's cloud based legal software help?
- Track legal matter and department budgets
- Receive, approve and reject invoices from your external resources via our spend management tool
- Automate legal analytics for clear, real-time visibility
- External resources have access to a portal - Xakia Connect - to upload and manage invoices, manage their users and matter access
Legal data analytics
Success identifiers:
- Captured legal data is automated into simple formats for sharing with key stakeholders
- Decision makers utilize data to understand the Legal Department
- Resourcing decisions are data driven
Useful resources:
- In House Legal Data Analytics for Beginners
- Turning Up the Heat on Legal Department Reporting
- How (And Why) Legal Departments Demonstrate Value
- In-House Legal Data Analytics - Who
- In-House Legal Data Analytics (part 2) -What
- In-House Legal Data Analytics (part 3) - When
- In-House Legal Data Analytics (part 4) - Why
How can Xakia's legal analytics software help?
- Surface who/what/when/why data in real-time
- Make informed, data-driven decisions without spreadsheets with our legal analytics software
- Automated dashboards and
- Clear, automated legal reports
Knowledge management
Success identifiers:
- Access to free law firm and alternative legal service provider publications
- Use of free online knowledge services
- Availability of up to date precedent documents
- Making sure people know their team members’ areas of expertise
Useful resources:
How can Xakia's legal matter management system help?
- Identify lessons learned
- Legal analytics to capture improvements
Technology tools
Success identifiers:
- External consultants have analyzed your needs to provide recommendations
- Implemented technology tools strategically fit business needs
Useful resources:
- Create A Legal Technology Roadmap In 4 Steps
- LegalTech - Information Security Checklist
- In-house LegalTech: 10 Questions To Ask Before You Go To The CIO
- Cloud 101: A Guide For In-House Lawyers
- Evaluating LegalTech? Five Considerations for Small & Large Legal Departments
- LegalTech Means Legal Data: How To Shop Smart For Both
- Success Factors For Implementing LegalTech
- What is a Legal Hub?
How can Xakia's legal matter software help?
- A central cloud based legal software to connect your technology tools
- One legal matter-centric interface
Communications
Success identifiers:
- Current Legal Department work and resourcing is effectively communicated
- Business unit executives receive established reports to understand where the Legal Department is providing support
- Senior executives/boards receive reports that highlight key work and risk areas being managed by the Legal Department
Useful resources:
- What is Legal Leadership?
- Best-In-Class Legal Reporting
- Six Mistakes You Can Avoid with Business Unit Reporting
- What CEOs Want from Legal Departments
How can Xakia's legal matter management software help?
- Data at your fingertips for communication with your stakeholders
- Automated, off-the-shelf legal reports for every audience
- Custom reports built for your needs
Legal work streams
Success identifiers:
- Resource intensive work is data-validated from a risk or strategy perspective
- Capture data on critical work streams relevant to your business
- A developed playbook for approvals in order to manage risk
Resources:
How can Xakia's matter management software help?
- Logs & Libraries to capture contract, dispute and IP data
- Dispute Logs allow you to manage your dispute and litigation risk by capturing all critical information in one simple legal operations software
Strategic planning
Processes to consider:
- Strategy is tailored to the unique business context, goals, risks and operating environment
- High value impact areas are clearly identified making the purpose of the work clear
Useful resources:
- Legal Department Strategic Plans: Maximum Impact, Minimal Navel-Gazing
- Is Your In-House Legal Department Advancing Strategy or Fighting Fires?
- 8 Steps To Your Legal Department Strategic Plan
- How Do Legal Teams Define Value?
- How (And Why) Legal Departments Demonstrate Value
How can Xakia's legal operations software help?
- Track the strategic value of work
- Use Data Analytics to identify strategic - and non-strategic - work
The best legal matter management software worldwide,
but don't just take our word for it
"The visibility over our legal workload has changed fundamentally with Xakia. The platform gives us a full overview of our internal clients, matters and status updates and it becomes particularly useful when tracking litigation cases."
Jiří Pařík
Data Protection Manager, Škoda Auto
Transform the way your legal department works with legal operations software
Related legal operations resources
Agile 101: A Guide for In-House Legal Departments
What Can Legal Operations Do For You?
Modern Matter Management for Corporate Legal Departments