According to CLOC (the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium) “Legal Operations” describes a set of business processes, activities, and the professionals that enable legal departments to serve their clients more effectively by applying business and technical practices to the delivery of legal services.
Legal Operations provides strategic planning, financial management, project management, and technology portfolio investment expertise that allows legal professionals to focus on providing legal advice.
LawVu manages the technology component including:
MATTER MANAGEMENT: View all legal matters, and manage requests from business users increasing ease of collaboration within the legal department and the business.
CONTRACT MANAGEMENT: Streamline contract create and lifecycle management to improve your organisation’s operational risk,
SPEND MANAGEMENT: Manage collaboration with external firms, and improve the value of your external legal spend,
KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT: Enable your internal clients to self-serve with document creation. Policies and guidelines
REPORTING & ANALYTICS: Demonstrate your departments’ strategic value and gain insights into risk, volume of work and dashboards specific to your business.
EMAIL MANAGEMENT: File emails and create matters directly from your inbox, seamlessly work between email and LawVu,
DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT: File documents against matters with version control and platform-wide search functionality