Efficiency by Technology In an exclusive roundtable hosted by The Lawyer and Consilio, lawyers share their secrets to winning the ‘more for less’ debate in the boardroom. This article originally appeared in the

Making Contracting Easier for Legal Contracts are what make any business go, but first, they have to get to the finish line: execution. Unfortunately, in many organizations, agreements get bogged down in

What Law Firms Can Learn from The Ninth Annual Law Department Operations Survey Robin Snasdell, Managing Director, chats about how the legal operation managers’ role has flourished, growing from a profession in its

2016 Law Department Benchmarking Performance Series - Survey One: Foundational Metrics Consilio’s 2016 Law Department Benchmarking Performance Series – Survey No. 1: Foundational Metrics, the seventh conducted in alliance with the Texas General

Entering a New Era for the Management of Legal Processes in the German Legal Market: Technically Sophisticated and Based on Division of Labour [This document is a convenience translation of the original German article:

Eye on Discovery -Can You Trust Your Law Firms With Your Data? Your data is only as safe as the data of your least secure link to it. Unfortunately, for many organizations, suppliers that

Eye on Discovery - Is Office 365 Enough to Meet Your eDiscovery Needs? To claim that Office 365 is a success would be an understatement. With a 320 percent increase in enterprise users from

Ninth Annual Law Department Operations Survey The Annual Law Department Operations Survey was created in 2008. It is the largest law department operations survey in the marketplace, with at least 80 unique data points.

Eye on Discovery - Five Steps to Take Now to Prepare for the General Data Protection Regulation Once the European Court of Justice issued its decision in Schrems v. Data Protection Commissioner, businesses began

The EU-US Data Privacy Framework: Is It Our Destiny or the Dark Side? “Oh, I’m afraid the deflector shield will be quite operational when your friends arrive.” With these words, the Emperor taunted Luke Skywalker,

Law Department Benchmarking Performance Series Consilio and The General Counsel Forum are pleased to announce the launch of the 2016 Law Department Benchmarking Performance Series. This series of short, simple performance surveys is

Eye on Discovery - 11.5 Million Reasons for Law Firms to Take Data Security Seriously In early April, we bore witness to what may be the largest data breach in history: 11.5 million confidential

Eye on Discovery - Stop the Madness: Close the Gaps Now to Avoid Discovery Mayhem Later Gaps are good if you’re a basketball team playing strong defense in the NCAA tournament. In March Madness,

Law Department Benchmarking Report Your comprehensive source for practices, metrics, and trends driving law department operations. 119 Companies | $2.3 Trillion in Revenue | $4.3 Billion in Legal Spend |5,900+ In-House Attorneys

GC Focus: Contract Management System vs. Document Management System: Which Technology Is Right for Your Law Department? So you want to better manage your organization’s contracts and are ready to invest in technology

GC Focus: Contract Analytics – What Can They Do for You? Organizations are looking to improve their contract management, both with respect to existing agreements and contract creation for new agreements and templates.

GC Focus: How Does Your Outside Counsel Manage Your Litigation? Of course you don’t want to micromanage how your outside counsel handles your organization’s litigation – after all, you hired them for their

GC Focus: Predicting the Future of Legal Analytics It is pretty clear that legal analytics are here to stay in law department management, and the ways analytics can be used are likely to

8th Annual Law Department Operations Survey The Blickstein Group, in cooperation with Consilio, has been surveying Legal Ops and other law department professionals, focusing solely on the operations function and seeking to provide

GC Focus: Aligning the Law Department with the Corporate Vision As organizations grow or the competitive landscape shifts, the corporate vision can evolve. Unfortunately, there is often a disconnection between a corporation’s new