Legal Ops 101: Optimizing Legal Workflows

An overview of legal operations, its importance, and its role in transforming legal departments. You’ll learn about the foundational concepts, key functions, and how legal ops enhances efficiency and reduces costs within in-house legal teams.

Understand how to effectively manage legal costs by optimizing billing practices, tracking legal spend, and implementing cost-saving strategies. This module covers key approaches to budgeting, forecasting, and negotiating with external counsel.

Discover how to successfully adopt and integrate legal technologies into your legal operations. This module covers essential legal tech tools like contract management systems, e-discovery platforms, and legal spend management software, and provides tips for smooth implementation.

Learn how to measure the success of your legal operations by setting key performance indicators (KPIs) and tracking important metrics. This module explains the most critical metrics to focus on to assess efficiency, cost savings, and overall performance.

Conclude the course by developing an actionable plan to implement what you’ve learned. This module provides guidance on how to take the next steps in optimizing your legal workflows, adopting technology, and tracking performance for continuous improvement.