In-House Legal Tip: 12 Legal Dept. Knowledge Hacks

Explore these 12 crucial knowledge hacks to supercharge your legal department's efficiency and effectiveness:

1. Checklist It: make a checklist for your top 3 legal risk concerns. Repeat every quarter. 
2. Post Mortem: write a list of 5 things you can do better after every deal. 
3. Clause Bank: keep a database (fancy word for a list) of approved clauses that can be safely used.
4. Clause Harvest: every time you come across a great clause – align it with your Group Legal Policy and deploy it.
5. Team Chat: open a Microsoft Teams chat-channel where any member of the team can ask a question. 
6. External Seminars: you don’t get to go unless you give a 20 min summary talk to your team.
7. Law Firm Events: go to them.
8. ChatGPT: careful, careful, careful. It looks good, but it does make mistakes!
9. Digitize It: capture all your training and knowledge digitally. 
10. House It: put your knowledge in one place.
11. GLS Legal Ops Community: join it, it is free, and we will help you pick up key knowledge.
12. Knowledge Plan: develop a knowledge plan for our team – the tip here is active consideration. 

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