The rapidly changing business landscape has intensified pressure on legal departments to increase efficiencies and deliver greater value to the business. Read this article to learn how you can modernize your legal department and free the core legal team to focus on strategic priorities, enhance the speed and quality of issue identification, and use data to drive faster, more informed decision-making.
While corporate legal departments (CLDs) may just be starting to focus more on data to influence decision-making, they do have one major advantage over many other departments: a lot of data. Properly leveraged, all this data can help the CLD leapfrog the corporation’s other business units and even take a leadership role in gaining value from big data.
This article outlines how you can launch a pilot to help answer key questions regarding:
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Legal data’s untapped potential
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Should you be a data-driven legal department?
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Examples of case-oriented & operational data-driven opportunities
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Where to leverage data for decision making
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Where should your CLD start?
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