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GLS Legal Technology Consulting™
Legal team technology choice & implementation support
The Problem
What legal technology solution is right for you?
Related challenges include:
- your team is looking at technology to help boost productivity
- no one in the legal team understands IT and for sure no one in the IT team understands legal
- core systems impacting legal (e.g CMS, SAP, etc.) are mostly procured by other business units
- understanding whether you can really automate your existing contracts
- knowing what you can and cannot really move to the cloud
- not performing due diligence can lead to continuing solution-related difficulties
- how can your legal technology interact with your existing IT ecosystem
- the need for better knowledge management solutions
- you need better remote working and online collaboration solutions
- starting with a basic document management solution would be a breakthrough
- lack of understanding with your IT solutions is undermining group legal/compliance standards
Wouldn’t it be good if someone could direct you to the tech solutions that you need?
The GLS Solution
GLS Legal Technology Consulting™ brings the legal imperative to the fore when it comes to considering process/productivity enabling IT technology for your legal team.
The legal industry is seeing a shift from localised servers and office-based technology to offices with lean technology and accessing capabilities that in the past only large firms could obtain.
The extent to which technology can boost legal team productivity outcomes is immense, provided it is harnessed correctly, proportionally and economically.
GLS Legal Technology Consulting™ advocates technology selection based around compatibility between two key imperatives – the legal user requirement and the overall business IT ecosystem.
One of the major failings of the IT enablement of legal resources is that solutions have consistently imposed an IT engineer's view of what legal teams need on legal users.
GLS Legal Technology Consulting™ can assist in ensuring that the true needs of your legal team are represented and met as you seek to embrace technology-based productivity solutions.
GLS Legal Technology Consulting™ helps you see through "marketing hype" and get the technology solution that is right for you, rather than the one that is just right for the the salesperson.
Technology enablement does not end with technology selection – it ends when the changes are complete, users are trained and the promised user productivity KPIs have been achieved.
Problem solved.
Solution Deliverables
| Legal IT Best Practice: | GLS can share with you what an optimally IT enabled legal team of the future looks like to help you plan your IT enablement journey. |
| Team Needs Analysis: | GLS can help you identify and prioritise which productivity needs of your team can be met with IT solutions. |
| Legal Imperative: | We help you identify and ensure that the underlying legal function process imperative is supported by the proposed solutions. |
| Solutions Knowledge: | GLS has a deep bench of legal facing technologies that are currently available in the market. |
| Legal Technology Experts: | Our team includes lawyers, legal tech entrepreneurs and IT consultants to ensure holistic solution identification and assessment. |
| Legal Tech Pathway Planning: | We help our clients identify the major trends in legal tech enablement. |
| Vendor Analysis: | We help you sort through the “sales pitch” frequently attached to tech vendor proposals and hone in on the most appropriate tech solutions. |
| Implementation / Testing: | We can support project implementation projects and help you conduct user testing to ensure that the solution you have procured works as intended. |
Project Requirements
Please get in touch so that we can understand what you are trying to acheive with your legal technology strategy.
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GLS RPLV Legal Operations Score
This solution’s GLS RPLV impact score:
| Resource Status: | Specialist | Repeater | Formative |
| Ease of Implementation: | Complex | Average | Easy |
| Value Demonstration/Visibility: | Low | Medium | High |
| Productivity Leverage Profile: | Low | Medium | High |
| IHL Line Optimisation: | Single | Multiple | All Lines |
IHL Critical Function Optimisation Targets
This solution enhances performance across the following critical in-house functions:
In-House Legal: Critical Functions / Processes
General Counsel
Contracting
Legal Tech
Compliance
Managed Service
Human Capital
Data Analytics
Legal Operations
Service Provider
Performance
Knowledge
Co. Sec.
IP
Internal Client
Disputes
GLS has identified 15 critical in-house processes/functions that are present in every world-class legal department. To learn what these functions are, their composition and how they interrelate to deliver efficient legal team performance outcomes - visit here.
