As the calendar switches from “2023” to “2024,” it’s time to reflect on another year in the rearview mirror. Once again, I find myself proud of the remarkable achievements I’ve se...

We break down 7 keys to effective matter management, and how they translate to improved efficiency, collaboration, and communication — all with less risk....

Legal task management keeps in-house legal teams on track, and a legal task management software function can optimize task management and drive results....

No more compromised outcomes. Introducing SimpleLegal's new task management function for efficient workflows, effective collaboration, and enhanced productivity!...

Invoice Validation Rules use configurable rules to programmatically enforce complex billing guidelines, AFAs, discounts, invoice routing, and more....

Legal document management involves more intuitive options to easily save, categorize, and search files than legal document storage....

Dive into 2023 CLOC Global Institute takeaways, including the rise of generative AI and the importance of building a business case for legal tech investments....

Looking for legal podcasts you’ll love? Check out this list for run-downs of the latest legal news, interesting takes on historical rulings, and everything in between....

To avoid the pitfalls of outdated technology, you need to evaluate your legal tech stack. These 6 questions will help you audit your legal software....

Innovative, AI-powered legal tech provides a clear path to scaling for corporate legal teams meeting new challenges....

When starting a new role, overcoming the learning curve along with the desire to make a lasting impression can put a lot of pressure on you. And with the responsibilities of the legal ops role va...

To get GCs on board with shutting down legacy legal tech, you need to first understand the reasons why they’re hesitant to make the switch....

Take the confusion out of shopping for a legal matter management software with our round-up of must-have features....

Whether you’re a seasoned legal ops pro or just starting out, our practice legal operations interview questions will help you ace the conversation....

With SimpleLegal's new Enhanced Reporting, it’s easier than ever to analyze legal data, track performance, and make decisions that drive the business forward. ...

We sit down with LaTrece Johnson. Head of Legal Operations at Palo Alto Networks to discuss what trends are emerging for legal ops in 2023 and how legal teams can tackle these trends....

Easier approval workflows for legal invoices start with automation. Automated e-Billing tech helps your team work faster and smarter....

Legal departments can lead company-wide progress by shifting the focus from reactive to proactive initiatives....

Ask these 4 questions before investing in an enterprise legal management system for your company. ...

We sit down with Lauren Stern. Director of Legal Operations at Dolby Laboratories Inc. to discuss what trends are emerging for legal ops in 2023 and how legal teams can tackle these trends....

We’re busting the common myths about our legal ops software and company. Get the truth about SimpleLegal....

Efficiency, data analysis, and collaboration are the foundation of legal ops success. Use these tips to deliver greater business value. ...

A healthy lawyer work-life balance can be tough. Our tips support productivity without compromising your well-being and happiness....

Stop overpaying on law firm billing rates. Cut legal costs with these 5 tips from industry leaders....

Improving your teamwork with other departments is key to changing legal’s reputation as a roadblock to a helpful, trusted partner....

Use these 3 best practices to build a case for your legal budget and demonstrate your value to the C-suite with your spend management skills....

Here’s everything you need to know about legal operations, including what it is, its history, functions, job roles, and more....

Improve your legal department’s productivity and efficiency with legal contract management with these 5 easy-to-implement steps....

Discover 7 high-impact ways legal ops teams use legal project management tools to their advantage and learn how to apply those strategies in your own organization....

Manufacturing is very familiar with adapting and moving into better processes, like through Lean Management and moving to Industry 4.0, to name a few. Their legal teams should also be the same....

Law firm metrics help legal ops accurately assess the performance of their vendors and ensure they’re getting the most out of their legal budget....

Check out our top 5 legal ops 2022 trends to learn how to close out your year strong and set yourself up for success in 2023....

A proper legal management system goes beyond invoice reviews and online bill pay in order to truly control costs in your legal budget....

Legal spend management is tracking, analyzing, and optimizing costs for in-house legal departments. Here’s how to create an effective system....

Law firm benchmarking brings valuable context to data points about your vendors, helping you optimize your legal spending....

Best law books: the ultimate reading list for legal professionals ; LETTERS TO A LAW STUDENT: A GUIDE TO STUDYING LAW AT UNIVERSITY...

Legal knowledge management is the key to helping legal teams stay productive and deliver enterprise value in a rapidly changing business world....

KPIs show your legal department’s value to your company. Find out how to measure performance even without complete data....

This generation of legal professionals are shifting to proactive mindsets. Using corporate diversity initiatives as a lens, we’ll examine what this means for the future of in-house legal....

Show your employees you care about them as people, not just professionals, with these 5 tips to stop legal burnout before it starts. ...

To get approval for a new legal spend management solution, you need to pitch the concrete value legal tech brings to the company as a whole. ...

Looking to reduce legal spend, drive conformity and consistency in billing practices, and enforce billing requirements? Sounds like you need invoice validation in your e-billing. ...

With a solid mentoring program in place, you'll support greater diversity in the legal profession while building and retaining top talent in house....

Looking for the best legal reads? We're sharing 38 top legal blogs by sector so you can stay on top of what's going on in the legal industry....

Reporting on your legal spend management doesn’t have to be complicated. Find out how to handle the process quickly and efficiently....

At CLOC Global Institute 2022, it became evident that that legal tech has to step up and deliver products that encompass what taking on ESG, DE&I, and CSR work means for corporations....

Outdated legacy tech can present a serious challenge for legal risk management. Find out why and learn how to improve your cybersecurity....

The need for reporting where legal data can shed its limitations is very real. That’s why we're excited to announce the next chapter in SimpleLegal’s reporting journey, Enhanced Reporting!...

Facilitate active learning and discussions on implicit bias in the legal profession with our round-up of top resources....

Only 48% of law firms respond to requests for month end accruals. Here's 4 key ways to increase that number, giving you more control over your legal budget....

By reviewing real-world examples of law firm data breaches, in-house GCs can make sure their organization doesn’t fall prey to the same mistakes....

Follow these 5 data compliance regulations to protect your customers’ privacy and avoid noncompliance penalties....

Use these 5 tips to conduct a more objective assessment of outside legal counsel and get the most value from your new vendors....

CLOC 2022 just wrapped up! We're recapping how the legal ops industry continued to innovate with 5 takeaways, despite facing unprecedented change in a very short amount of time....

Legal matter management is the foundation of legal cost control. Matter details help you objectively measure attorney performance and find more ways to save....

Implementation can be daunting to legal departments focused on meeting the needs of the core business. Leaders need to be focused and communicative in leading the charge to adopt new tech....

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) has been discussed among corporate legal departments for years. But only recently has legal technology caught up to provide ways to turn ideas into action....

The key to creating a sustainable legal diversity program is structured planning. Get your program off the ground and create lasting change with these 7 steps....

The pressing question for in-house legal is not whether alternative fee arrangements will be used but rather how to ensure the best ROI from AFAs....

As firms continue to increase rates, alternative legal service providers have become great options to reduce legal spend without reducing quality. ...

At SimpleLegal, we believe that what defines top legal technology companies is much more than having great software and a strong profit margin....

Data-backed predictive legal software helps you rely more on facts than feelings so you can provide more effective, strategic legal and business advice....

Join us as we celebrate several important milestones in 2021, with customers using our solution to process $4.4 billion in legal invoices and create more than 175,000 matters....

For real change to happen, companies must be willing to have let go of firms that don't improve. Here's how these Consero panelists leveraged data to support their DE&I initiatives....

The value of legal data analytics isn’t about the information itself; it’s about how legal departments apply that knowledge to transform a business....

After navigating COVID-19 with manual tools like spreadsheets, many legal ops teams now look at AI and legal technology as business necessities, not luxuries....

As general counsel responsibilities continue to expand, GCs must step outside their comfort zones to move the legal department and business forward. ...

The current trend is to use outside counsel less to save, but legal can still get stuck on determining when to give work to in house counsel or to outsource....

Legal spend tech helps legal ops easily find ways to save, which is especially important because most GCs are focused on reducing legal costs through 2024....

The chief legal officer role is a natural next step for in-house counsel who want to be leaders, not just lawyers. Here’s how to level up your legal career....

Legal cost control is still a top priority for legal ops, and the spend management lessons learned in COVID-19 will help teams further optimize legal spend....

This comprehensive guide to in house legal lingo will help you navigate the complicated profession — and you’ll earn brownie points from the higher-ups....

Growing financial and legal risks of poor data privacy measures have prompted corporate legal departments to step up and take ownership alongside IT....

Efficient outside counsel management is more than cutting hours to reduce spend. It’s about creating relationships and giving the right tasks to the right vendor....

Legal data gives you the power to predict spend and team efficiency. Learn how to collect and leverage the right data set for cost savings, and more. ...

A legal spend management solution helps departments other than legal ops to succeed. These benefits can support a business case for new software....

If you’re new to legal analytics, figuring out what to do with a mountain of legal data can be daunting. Learning the basics gives you a roadmap for success....

It’s much easier to create a shared, objective definition of success with your vendors when you can reliably track vendor performance metrics to incorporate into their evaluations....

A legal spend management system is the key to effectively tracking spend and spending smarter. Get a strong return on investment with this tool!...

Relying on spreadsheets for legal department reporting negatively impacts your legal ops team and leads to less effective business decisions. Here's how modern legal technology helps....

Legal e-Billing solutions are currently the most adopted legal technology by law departments. So, why is that, and what makes a good legal e-Billing solution? ...

Private equity firms spend $353k on average on each merger and acquisition. Here are the areas that contribute to high M&A legal fees and how to keep costs low....

A lawyer’s education is never done. When every state has slightly different continuing legal education requirements, it can be tough to keep everything straight....

Diversity in law gives rise to innovation and increased profitability — but is hiring diverse candidates enough? Here are four more things you should be doing to achieve DEI....

What are UTBMS Codes? Here’s everything you need to know to understand and use UTBMS and ABA task codes in 2021. ...

AI in law helps you do more low-level work in less time, so team members can focus on high-value tasks. Here’s how AI can help legal ops departments....

There are four pillars of an efficiently structured legal department; people, processes, tech, and data. Here’s how to structure your department around them....

Work with confidence knowing your document search results are thorough and all-inclusive using SimpleLegal’s latest full-text and Optimal Character Recognition (OCR) search update!...

Legal metrics help legal departments gain insight into ways to improve their department and show their value to stakeholders. But what are the right metrics to track?...

60 days out from CLOC 2021 Global Institute, SimpleLegal's product team reflects on how the takeaways have enhanced their design process of keeping things simple for legal operations....

SimpleLegal is excited to introduce SimpleReview, our latest innovation that uses machine learning and natural language processes to make invoice review hyper-focused, more thorough, and simpler!...

LEDES file format facilitates electronic data transmission in legal, streamlining e-Billing by displaying invoice data in a specific order and format. Here's everything you need to know in 2021....

Legal spend analysis helps you discover ways to improve your legal department through spend reporting. Here’s what it is and how to conduct an analysis....

AI streamlines legal processes to eliminate time-consuming, tedious tasks. To effectively implement the adoption of AI-powered solutions, the panelists at CLOC shared 5 key principles....

Last week, CLOC hosted their second virtual CLOC Global Institute. Here's what a first-time attendee gained from the experience....

Finance and legal both want to use the budget wisely, but they don’t always work cross-functionally. Learn how the teams can improve spend management together....

Over the past 11 years, there has only been a 3.9% increase in minority representation in top law firms. Here's why increasing that percentage matters and two actions you can take to increase it....

Whether you realize it or not, maverick spend could be eating up your legal budget. Learn what it is, how to identify it, and how to eliminate it....

At the end of 2020, we asked in-house legal departments to submit colleagues for the Legal MVP Award. After careful consideration, we’re pleased to announce the 3 winners!...

Legal spend management processes can be tedious, repetitive and riddled with human error. Here is how a spend management solution can solve all of those problems....

Learn how to streamline contract risk management by leveraging technology to gain better access to information, speed up contract creation, and minimize bottlenecks....

A look at how enterprise legal management has evolved over time to continuously address legal ops needs....

Not sure if spend management software is worth the investment? If any of these situations sound familiar, spend management would save you money in the long run....

SimpleLegal adds WalkMe to their vendor portal, CounselGO, to help law firms work more efficiently and effectively...

Want to save your legal department hundreds of thousands each month? Learn how to track and manage different types of accruals....

Procurement and legal haven’t always worked closely together, but with the right legal tech, the teams can simplify the contract negotiation process. ...

The SimpleLegal team shares what the announcement of AI-enabled invoice means for the legal ops platform as well as current and future customers....

We’re excited to help our customers start 2021 with additional tools to help them further control legal spend and maximize resources. Today, we launched powerful new budget features that suppor...

Alternative fee arrangements allow legal ops teams and law firms alike to shift the focus to value-based work instead of worrying about hours and minutes....

Not sure how to choose between e-Billing and contract lifecycle management? Here’s what to consider before you commit to tech for your legal team....

Sales and legal share common goals, but don’t always work cross-functionally. Learn how the two teams can improve contract management together. ...

The after effects of an uncertain year are bound to roll into 2021. Now’s the time to think proactively about legal department budgets for the coming year. ...

There’s a lot of hype around Legal AI — but what is it, exactly? We explain the components that make up what’s often referred to as “AI in legal.”...

Matter Management (also referred to as Legal Matter Management) is the process in which matters and related data, such as type of legal work, attorneys on the case, budgets, and invoices, are gat...

Legal ops needs to use hard data to prove their value in order to build better relationships, secure their budget, and prevent budget cuts....

You can’t approach virtual legal events like an in-person conference. Here’s how to get the full benefit of conferences as they move online. ...

Get a head start on hiring top talent for your legal department with our downloadable legal operations jobs templates....

Like so many private equity (PE) firms, invoices come in at the start of a deal and they are reasonable. There’s time to review them. But as the deal progresses, everyone is running around ...

At the end of a long week, you sit down to find a great movie to watch. It takes a solid five minutes for Netflix to boot up. Then, you can’t preview any movies within the application, so you s...

“I love repetitive administrative work!” — said no one, ever. And yet, office workers spend around 552 hours a year completing mundane administrative tasks. You may think that your fragment...

Picture this: An attorney spends five hours on a flight to take an out-of-town deposition for Client A. During that time, the attorney works on IP management research to use for projects for both...

Legal billing guidelines are a binding agreement between a legal department and a law firm, ensuring payment in exchange for legal work. The guidelines establish rules for legal invoicing formats...

“Don’t reinvent the wheel, just realign it.” American author, Anthony J. D’Angelo, probably wasn’t referring to legal templates when he said that — but his advice still applies. Why s...

Known for its simplicity, yet robust and configurable capabilities, SimpleLegal is one of the must-have legal technologies for legal departments of all shapes and sizes. Learn why SimpleLegal’...

What is business intelligence? It involves leveraging tools to turn data and analytics into actionable insights that facilitate more strategic business decisions. If that sounds like a bunch of j...

Adopting technology is becoming more commonplace in the legal industry. But with a growing number of in-house tools available, deciding which tools are best for your department is a challenging p...

Creating a change management plan is a lot like preparing to build a house: You can’t construct a sturdy structure without first creating a blueprint, and you won’t make much headway if you d...

All relationships require work, and the business relationship between legal ops teams and their vendors is no exception. Unfortunately, legal ops teams often rely on a single, pre-existing connec...

Outside counsel guidelines (OCG) vary widely by company and sometimes span hundreds of pages, theoretically covering every possible situation that can arise between in-house and outside counsel. ...

Intellectual property management can get complicated due to the sheer volume of paperwork, vendors, and invoices involved. Before you know it, you’re spending money on patent work without knowi...

The LegalOps Highlight is a bi-weekly blog series that features relevant news, market trends and legal technology updates from the legal ecosystem. The content is curated from legal and business ...

Documents play a key role in the lives of the legal team. From contracts to memorandums, being able to store, manage, and locate important documents are critical to the department’s success. Th...

We’re sitting down with legal professionals to learn more about their roles and responsibilities, uncover useful insights and best practices, and discuss their view on the future of legal and l...

The LegalOps Highlight is a bi-weekly blog series that features relevant news, market trends and legal technology updates from the legal ecosystem. The content is curated from legal and business ...

Our Legal Technology Glossary is now live! Check out some of the top technology terms being used in the legal industry and help your legal ops department stay up to date with the latest in legal ...

If you work with a lot of outside counsel, the type of legal billing software you choose will have a sizable impact on the overall efficiency of your billing process. Choosing software that strea...

The LegalOps Highlight is a bi-weekly blog series that features relevant news, market trends and legal technology updates from the legal ecosystem. The content is curated from legal and business ...

Want to uplevel your legal ops career in 2020? Perhaps you’re interested in expanding your legal ops function and want to know how your peers are tackling the challenge head on? Learn what’s ...

We’re excited to announce that SimpleLegal has been named a Top 25 Legal Vendor Award at OnCon 2020! SimpleLegal joins a fantastic group of legal vendors, including our friends at Onit. “...

The LegalOps Highlight is a bi-weekly blog series that features relevant news, market trends and legal technology updates from the legal ecosystem. The content is curated from legal and business ...

    The LegalOps Highlight is a bi-weekly blog series that features relevant news, market trends and legal technology updates from the legal ecosystem. The content is curated from legal...

Many of the attorneys I’ve spoken with tell me that they “live in Outlook” to get work done. This makes a lot of sense if you think about all of the emails that hit their inboxes from their...

The LegalOps Highlight is a bi-weekly blog series that features relevant news, market trends and legal technology updates from the legal ecosystem. The content is curated from legal and business ...

SimpleLegal and Onit partnered with leading analyst firm IDC to present a webinar on the future of legal ops, highlighting market trends, change management, and predictions. Read on for a recap o...

Creating billing guidelines is often one of the first steps a legal department takes when trying to get a hold of out-of-control legal spend. But how can a legal department ensure that their guid...

The LegalOps Highlight is a bi-weekly blog series that features relevant news, market trends and legal technology updates from the legal ecosystem. The content is curated from legal and business ...

Imagine that you’re at your desk, setting up a new matter in your matter management system. You remember that you have files stored in the document management system that your company uses, and...

The LegalOps Highlight is a bi-weekly blog series that features relevant news, market trends and legal technology updates from the legal ecosystem. The content is curated from legal and business ...

One of the main benefits of modern legal technology is being able to implement and scale processes that help the legal team stay more efficient and productive. With its latest product update, Sim...

We’re right around the corner from ACC Annual 2019, the world’s largest gathering of in-house counsel. This year’s event will be held at the Phoenix Convention Center on October 27-30, and ...

Receiving and reviewing invoices is a mundane and tedious task nearly every legal department faces each day. It can be frustrating when an invoice approval is stalled and you have no idea why, or...

For legal professionals interested in purchasing new legal software, the age old question of customizing software vs opting for a configurable out-of-the-box solution must be answered. To help th...

With so many legal conferences taking place throughout the year, we know it can be hard to figure out which to prioritize and attend. To help navigate your options, we’ve highlighted some of th...

The legal profession has seen an incredible rise in legal operations. The advent of sophisticated and modern legal technology, coupled with the steady progression towards running a transparent, d...

Last week, CLOC (Corporate Operations Legal Consortium) announced the results of their 2nd Annual State of the Industry Survey. This year’s survey included respondents from 200+ companies of di...

Many in-house legal departments don’t like change and feel comfortable maintaining the status quo, especially when it comes to their law firms. I mean, why fix something if it isn’t broken, r...

Change is hard regardless of how it’s packaged. While we can all relate to this both personally and professionally, in recent years, it’s a concept that’s proved especially true for legal o...

Automation, digitization, cloud capabilities, artificial intelligence – these themes are all top of mind, tip of tongue, across C-suites. It all started with the device in your pocket, your sma...

We’re sitting down with legal professionals to learn more about their roles and responsibilities, uncover useful insights and best practices, and discuss their views on the future of legal and ...

Having worked with other legacy systems for e-Billing and matter management, the legal team at Instacart knew they needed a more modern solution to replace their highly manual invoicing process. ...

We just got back from attending another fantastic CLOC Institute in Las Vegas. We’ve had the honor of sponsoring CLOC four years in a row and we can’t tell you how amazing it has been to watc...

Today I am pleased to announce that we will be joining forces with Onit. When Patrik Outericky and I started SimpleLegal six years ago, we wanted to break the mold of what e-Billing was – c...

General counsel who traditionally reigned over risk, ethics, and compliance are now being asked to think about budget, technology, and operational efficiency. A handful of studies demonstrate the...

We just got back from attending the first XChange in Minneapolis, the Association of Corporate Counsel’s (ACC) reimagined conference that combined their annual Mid-Year Meeting and Legal Operat...

Leveraging law firms and legal vendors is a critical component of many corporate legal departments. But how do you ensure the law firms you’re working with are the right ones who provide the be...

At SimpleLegal, we love anything related to legal operations, so it’s no surprise that we’re thrilled to be a fourth year sponsor of the 2019 CLOC Institute – one of the largest legal ops c...

A successful legal knowledge management (KM) program increases legal department productivity, eliminates time spent doing duplicate work, and delivers consistency by leveraging intellectual and k...

We’re two weeks away from the inaugural ACC Xchange being held in Minneapolis, MN. This reimagined conference combines the Association of Corporate Counsel’s Mid-Year Meeting and Legal Operat...

Last week, we partnered with Morae Global to host a panel discussion on the digital transformation currently taking shape within corporate legal departments across the world. Starting bright and ...

We’re sitting down with legal professionals to learn more about their roles and responsibilities, uncover useful insights and best practices, and discuss their view on the future of legal and l...

Nobody likes sifting through old emails and call notes, or chasing law firms for budget information. And, most would agree that manually tracking budgets and requests for them using a spreadsheet...

We recently had the pleasure of speaking to Dan Wright, who shared his path of being the first in-house legal hire at AppDynamics – serving as their General Counsel – to taking on a more stra...

I just had the pleasure of attending the Evolve the Law ‘Emerging Legal Departments: Legal Tech 101 Roundtable’ in Sunnyvale where Bay Area legal departments networked over breakfast and part...

We just wrapped up our ‘Best Practices for Selling the Investment in Legal Technology Internally’ webinar – what a great discussion! If you couldn’t make the webinar, we wanted to summari...

What better way to expand your knowledge around legal operations than from your peers who have been there and done that? We’re sharing five upcoming events – both online and in-person – tha...

Maximizing outside counsel performance is part trial and error and part effective management. Whether you are just starting with law firms or have dozens (if not hundreds) of vendors, here are fo...

Fueled by fast-paced growth and demand for greater efficiency in the legal department, there’s no doubt that legal operations is here to stay. Whether you are a legal operations professional, t...

SimpleLegal and the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) partnered to host an informative webinar titled Legal Ops 101: A Framework for Modern Legal Departments. Moderated by Nathan Wenzel, CEO...

Some legal professionals may feel apprehensive when approaching their GC or Chief Legal Officer (CLO) with requests to fund new legal operations technology. But, with a solid case in hand and an ...

2019 is an exciting year to be in legal operations. It may feel like we say that every year, but with the international growth of legal operations, increase in legal service providers and resou...

Data is only as good as the insights you get out of it. Thanks to the widespread availability of software, extracting value from the massive amounts of data received by the legal department (spec...

What a night! SimpleLegal hosted a panel discussion at our headquarters in Mountain View, CA to discuss Where Legal Technology is Headed (for better or worse). We brought in local legal operatio...

Whether a long or short sales cycle, once a customer signs, it’s easy to skip project planning and jump into full force execution. This can be great in an attempt to quickly obtain results, but...

Over the years, the use of alternative fee arrangements (AFAs) by corporate legal departments has grown due to a number of factors such as falling realization rates, more competition, and the exp...

The term “tech stack” has become the common way to describe the group of technologies that users leverage to improve their operations and daily activities. But categories and industries are b...

Most legal and finance departments depend on different applications and tools, leading to the reliance on outdated, manual processes that hinder productivity and suffocate growth. An API integrat...

We just got back from the ACC (Association of Corporate Counsel) Annual Meeting in Austin, Texas and despite the lack of coffee, we had a great time sponsoring the event! Most notably, we had the...

Corporate legal departments are placing significant weight on their law firms’ commitment to provide a diverse staff to perform legal services across all practice areas. In fact, more than a th...

The billing process naturally introduces tension between in-house legal teams and law firms. Surprise fees that lack justification, unauthorized charges, invoices submitted weeks or months after ...

At SimpleLegal, half of our executive team and more than 65% of our hiring managers are women. My co-founder, Patrik Outericky, and I didn’t initially have a specific diversity goal around ...

When looking at job descriptions for legal operations positions, many include at least one requirement along the lines of, “are collaborative, and enjoy working with teams such as engineering, ...

We’re sitting down with legal professionals to learn more about their roles and responsibilities, uncover useful insights and best practices, and discuss their view on the future and evolution ...

Legal operations is gaining traction within corporate legal departments – and not just in the United States, but around the world. To support the demand for legal operations knowledge and build...

Today’s post is the third installment of our working cross-functionally blog series! We’ve explored the relationship between legal operations and sales, legal operations and IT, and will be h...

We don’t need legal operations yet. We’re too small for a formal legal operations manager. We’ll wait until our department has matured before considering legal operations. We don’t have b...

Earlier this year, SimpleLegal sponsored the annual CLOC Institute in Las Vegas. The event attracted thousands of legal operations professionals who were ready to learn from industry thought lead...

Our CEO, Nathan Wenzel, joined host and founder of QuantumJurist, Inc., Ian Connett, on the Evolve Law Podcast to talk all things legal operations. In addition to sharing a little background on S...

Today, we’re sharing the second installment of our working cross-functionally blog series on how legal operations can enhance their relationships with IT. If you didn’t catch part one, which ...

Last week, Chicago hosted hundreds of legal operations professionals at the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) Legal Operations Conference. Here at SimpleLegal, we love legal operations, so ...

General counsel have always acted as the protectors of their organizations, providing legal advice to ensure that their company is acting in accordance with the law. However, today’s volatile a...

Learn how KidKraft adopted SimpleLegal and immediately gained visibility into legal spend for countless benefits including enhanced budgeting and reporting....

We’re sitting down with legal professionals to learn more about their roles and responsibilities, uncover useful insights and best practices, and discuss their view on the future of legal and l...

Another fantastic CLOC Institute has come and gone! This year’s conference showcased the continued growth of the CLOC organization as well as the legal operations function; both of which show n...

Legal billing guidelines, also known as outside counsel billing guidelines, are a great way for legal departments to communicate their expectations of their law firms and vendors. However, withou...

SimpleLegal is pleased to announce Legal Requests — our latest feature that enables legal and other departments to submit requests for legal work directly from SimpleLegal, making collaboration...

The highly anticipated agenda for the 2018 CLOC Institute is almost finalized! As a Platinum Sponsor and perennial CLOC attendee, we know firsthand that there are ample ways to fill your conferen...

A couple weeks ago, we published the first post in this series which focused on the intangible benefits of alternative fee arrangements (AFAs). Today’s post will highlight the process for deter...

Last week, SimpleLegal was ranked 21st on SaaS 1000’s list of fastest growing SaaS (Software as a Service) companies. The list includes a wide range of organizations, from the largest SaaS comp...

SimpleLegal is proud to be named one of the “Top 20 Most Promising Legal Technology Providers” for 2018 by CIOReview. The technology magazine, which has been at the forefront of guiding orga...

e-Billing is quickly becoming the technology of choice for legal departments – and for good reason. The solution acts as a system of record, enabling a legal team to efficiently manage the cont...

It’s been roughly ten years since best-selling author, Scott Turow, penned the cover story for the American Bar Association journal titled, ‘The Billable Hour Must Die.’ During this time Tu...

Only 48% of law firms respond to requests for month end accruals. We have four key ways to increase that number, giving you more control over your legal budget....

The first weeks of the new year are buzzing with resolutions, but resolutions don’t have to be limited to personal or health-related goals. We see great opportunity for the legal operations rol...

2017 was an exciting year for SimpleLegal. With all of the positive changes, it can be easy to forget about the many milestones that have gotten us to where we are today. We raised a successful f...

At SimpleLegal, we’re excited by and proud to be a part of the growing legal operations movement. To celebrate that growth, we’re sharing some of the top legal ops trends and statistics of 20...

e-Billing software has been touted as the foundational legal technology for in-house counsel. It provides a way for legal departments to understand where and how their dollars are being allocated...

We’re sitting down with legal professionals to learn more about their roles and responsibilities, uncover useful insights and best practices, and discuss their view on the future of legal and l...

Litigation costs are some of the most challenging spend categories for an insurer to manage. Both the legal and claims departments must work together to strike the right balance of cost containme...

Last week, the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC) released their First Annual State of the Industry Survey where more than one-third of CLOC member companies were polled to shed light ...

In a session discussing the hidden potential of data at last month’s ACC Annual Meeting, we learned that only 39% of legal departments say they collect and analyze data – only 6.6% of those d...

Last week, SimpleLegal sponsored the ACC Annual Meeting where thousands of in-house counsel, legal technology providers, and ACC members from around the nation gathered in Washington, DC. Among t...

Last week, we sponsored the ACC Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, and we must say, the event was a tremendous success. Not only were there many repeat Annual Meeting attendees, there were just as...

The legal field is dominated by giants including Legal Tracker (formerly Serengeti) offered by Thomson Reuters, CounselLink offered by LexisNexis, and TeamConnect offered by Mitratech. We might b...

Leveraging a variety of outside counsel is common for legal teams of all sizes. Also common is the difficulty for some teams in managing the contacts and firms, the projects each firm is working ...

This October, SimpleLegal is proud to sponsor two in-house counsel events the week of October 16th: The ACC Annual Conference in Washington, DC (meet us at ACC) and the 29th Annual SVAGC All Hand...

This article first appeared on HuffPost by Brad Micklin with Yitzi Weiner I had the pleasure to interview Nathan Wenzel. Nathan took a more methodical and consultative approach to founding his st...

Yesterday, we attended the EvolveLaw Tech Savvy In-House Counsel event with a group of legal thought leaders looking to dive deeper into how in-house counsel and legal operations are using techno...

If you’re interested in seeing what’s new in the legal tech marketplace and the benefits of integrating modern technology into your legal operations process, register for the upcoming ACC Ann...

We love data at SimpleLegal and have seen countless benefits, from cost savings to more informed decision making, for corporate legal departments and legal operations teams that have access to th...

As a proud member of EvolveLaw, we can’t wait to see how their recently announced partnership with Above the Law will continue to drive innovation and adoption of technology within the legal in...

Since the publication of the GC Open Letter, announcing a real-time exercise to test industry assumptions to better understand how to improve the legal market, there’s been a lot of chatter aro...

At SimpleLegal, we understand (and love!) that our users are in the system on a daily basis. Because of that, it’s always been our goal to provide GCs, legal operations professionals, and in-h...

One of the biggest challenges that legal operations departments are still trying to figure out is Knowledge Management (KM). How do legal operations teams easily capture, find, and share everythi...

Our CEO, Nathan Wenzel, joined host, Harry Stebbings, on The Twenty Minute VC to talk about SimpleLegal’s journey from the very beginning as a services-based consulting company, to our Y combin...

As a matter management, legal spend, and e-Billing solution designed for in-house legal teams, we work directly with a variety of different sized corporate legal departments. One role within the ...

In part I of our accruals management series, we summarized why accruals are important, and how legal operations departments tend to be more equipped to own the accruals process than finance depar...

Last month, hundreds of legal operations professionals gathered at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, taking part in the 2nd annual CLOC Institute, the largest legal operations event in history. The orga...

“Just because it’s obvious doesn’t mean it’s easy. A lot of legal operations are complex, for sure. But a lot of what we do is putting common sense into motion.” These resonant words fr...

CLOC, the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium, recently released the session schedule for the upcoming CLOC Institute being held in Las Vegas. There are more than 70 informative sessions that t...

Last week, more than one hundred intellectual property (IP) professionals gathered in Silicon Valley for the 3rd annual IPforward conference. Put on by IPfolio, the one-day conference provides a ...

Last week, we attended the EvolveLaw Tech Savvy In-House Counsel event with an incredible group of legal technology thought leaders. SimpleLegal CEO, Nathan Wenzel, gave a talk on a very thought-...

Switching out any enterprise software or homegrown solution can be a nightmare. Even making the decision to embrace legal technology can be a difficult task for an organization that has been fili...

This post isn’t just for corporate legal teams, but for any organization thinking they are too small or early to adopt enterprise software. A lot of conversations in the legal space are aro...

An invoice from outside counsel is received. It’s reviewed by the in-house legal team. It’s approved (or sometimes rejected, sent back to the outside vendor for modifications, and the...

Businesses today are emphasizing the importance of understanding corporate expenditures and ROI. This, of course, includes outside counsel spend. In-house legal departments are no longer exempt f...

Part of the challenge as a general counsel is getting the best work out of your outside counsel for the best value. Even with good intentions, it doesn’t always pan out this way. Your prioritie...

As corporate law stretches and changes under the weight of new business structures, so too has the role of general counsel. Tasked with overseeing the legal footprint of their companies, general ...

It’s clear to in-house professionals that there’s a new legal role that’s proving critical to departmental success – and that role is legal operations. What is so appealing about ...

General counsel are often tagged as the always risk-averse ‘fun police,’ quashing ideas and innovation that even smell like they may operate close to the boundaries of what is legal. As a gen...

Corporate law departments are spending more on in-house resources than on law firms or external legal service providers, with the percentage of general counsel stating their companies need dedica...

As corporate law stretches and changes under the weight of new business structures, so too has the role of the general counsel. Tasked with overseeing the legal footprint of their companies, gene...

Raising the Bar We understand why general counsel at some companies put off buying a legal e-Billing system as long as they possibly can. Software from legacy vendors can be clunky and hard to s...

Why Are We Spending So Much in Legal? One SimpleLegal customer (a public tech company with legal department that grew from a team of 1 to a team of 14) was told by his finance department that he ...

When talking to general counsel, legal operations teams and CFOs, I seem to hear this comment very often: We are too small for e-Billing. Why? What does that even mean. To qualify it – I do...

I’m lucky. I get to live in the future. I see self-driving cars every single day. We all live in the future in our personal lives. We can click a button to summon a car for a lift t...

It’s an exciting time in legal technology. New companies are creating modern, easy-to-use software for in-house legal teams. General Counsel have more choice and more control at lower price...

At SimpleLegal, we take data security very seriously. We’re writing to let our customers and prospective customers know about our response to the very serious bug found in the widely used, ...

At SimpleLegal, we believe data can change the world. We also believe, it doesn’t have to be complicated. Simple isn’t easy, but it’s worth it. That’s why I get excited w...

We’re committed to bringing transparency to CFOs for every expense entry on their P&Ls. We started with legal expense because it has the biggest opportunity for improvement. Customers w...

The Beginning Although we officially launched SimpleLegal in early 2013, we’ve actually been around for over a decade. Our journey in legal billing began in litigation management department...

Good Question As I talk to potential and current customers, all conversations ultimately arrive at the same question: “So what do law firms think about you guys?” I hope they like us....

Controlling the Chaos SimpleLegal is the easiest way for a company to understand and reduce their legal spend. Instead of piles of paper or emailed PDFs, we offer one place to receive, review, an...