5 Ways Legal Departments Are Evolving Their Thinking About Technology
The COVID-19 pandemic may have pushed some legal departments to expand their internal efforts with regards to technology and innovation. This includes building a more comprehensive understanding of the latest products to hit the market as well as prioritizing solutions that can easily integrate with the tools leveraged by other departments.
May 04, 2021 at 12:00 PM
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Legal TechnologyAfter more than a year of using technology like contract management solutions and remote working tools to help weather the storm that is the COVID-19 pandemic, corporate legal departments may be heating up a previously lukewarm stance on innovation. Put another way: They want tech, and they want it now. "This idea that we don't have to do things the way that we've always done them I think opens the door to some of the other things that aren't necessarily triggered by the pandemic, but people have more confidence—both internally [in firms] and on the client side," said Ana-Maria Norbury, director of global service design at Baker McKenzie, to The American Lawyer. However, it's not just the demand for tech that is enhanced, but the way that legal departments are going about sourcing and implementing innovations. In-house teams are becoming more informed about the tools that are on the market, refining adoption techniques and evaluating different vendors for their experience and legal acumen. Here are five ways that legal departments are continuing to evolve their thinking about technology.
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