LegalVIEW Insights Series

A groundbreaking series of in-depth reports on legal operations trends and best practices, based on extensive interviews with legal industry insiders and data mined out of the Wolters Kluwer LegalVIEW Data Warehouse— the world’s leading source of performance benchmarking for corporate law departments and insurance claims organizations.

• Vol 1:  Corporate legal department law firm vendor usage analysis 

• Vol 2:  Corporate legal department spend analysis 

• Vol 3:  The effect of very large legal matters on outside counsel costs 

• Vol 4:  Statistical differences in law firm staffing ratios 

• Vol 4:  Finance edition 

• Vol 5:  Trends in vendor mix and total outside spend 

• Vol 5:  Finance edition 

• Vol 6:  Law firm rate increases 

Podcasts and Webinars

• Fighting Back Inflation:  Legal Spend Management Tools to Navigate an Uncertain Economy 

• Here’s How Clients Can Push Back on Law Firm Rate Hikes

• The Future-Ready Lawyer:  How Legal Departments Can Get Ready for What’s Next 

• Understanding Legal Intake and Triage 

• Worst Practices and Challenges of Change Management in Legal Ops 

• Trends in Vendor Mix and Total Outside Spend 

• How Novartis Successfully Deals with Megamatters 

• Financial Services Insights from the 2021 Real Rate Report 

• Managing Exponential Growth in Legal Operations:  The Microsoft Case 

• Building Your Own Legal Technology Roadmap 

• Megamatters:  Mammoth Legal Matters 

• Volatility in Outside Counsel Spend:  Containing the Chaos 

• Why Law Firms Are Getting ‘Ghosted’ by Their Clients— And How to Prevent It

Other Legal Industry Publications

Publications of mine in LegalTech News / Corporate Counsel (law.com) 

• 3 Key Benefits of Corporate Legal Benchmarking 

• How to Build an Effective Legal Operations Strategy and High-Performing Team 

• Setting Goals and Measuring What Matters:  3 Keys to Corporate Legal Success 

• Running Your Practice Like a Small Town Can Ensure Higher Performance 

• How Legal Tech Can Support the Workforce of the Future 

• How Legal Departments Can Ensure Their Decisions Are “Defensible” 

• Do Your Due Diligence and Take a More Holistic Approach to Legal Spend 

• Choosing Legal Operations Software That Works for You 

• Do Minimum Hourly Billing Requirements Lead to Overbilling? 

• How to Build a Smarter Sourcing Strategy 

• Corporate Legal Departments Can Benefit from Insourcing—Even During a Recession 

• How Leading In-house Organizations Manage Quality S.M.A.R.T.ly 

• Meeting Diversity Goals Starts with Measuring Them 

• Three Considerations Financial Organizations Should Make Before Selecting a Legal Tech Vendor 

• How Technologically Mature is Your Legal Department?  Ask These 4 Questions to Find Out 

• How Corporate Legal Departments Should Plan for 2022 

• Five Keys to Law Firm Risk Mitigation 

• Four Signs Your Law Firms Might Pose a Risk to Your Business 

• Are You Getting the Most Out of Your Existing Technology? 

Publications on the ILTA website

• Why CLDs Need to Become More Discerning Purchasers of Legal Tech, and Where to Start 

• How Megamatters are Costing Your Legal Department Millions—and What to Do About It 

Publications in Corporate Counsel Bar Journal

• Use AI and Detailed Analytics to Identify Savings Opportunities 

• Maximize Spend Management with the Right ELM Solution 

• Hitting the Mark with Your AFAs 

• Out of the Weeds:  How Data Visualization Drives Better Decisions 

• The Legal Spend Guessing Game 

• Are Minimum Annual Billing Requirements Causing Spikes in EOY Legal Spend? 

Publications on the Wolters Kluwer company blog

• Your Outside Counsel Could Be Gaming Your AFAs 

• What If Artificial Intelligence Undermines the Case for Flat Fees? 

• Legal Operations Dashboarding:  5 Takeaways from ILTA 

• Hourly Rates Still Have to Be Managed 

• How NOT to Manage Hourly Matters 

• Putting the 2019 CLOC State of the Industry Survey into Context 

• CLOC 2019:  Signaling the Maturity of Legal Operations 

• How Leading In-House Organizations Manage Quality S.M.A.R.T.ly 

• How Much Is Attorney Experience Worth, Anyway?

• Legaltech 2019:  Three Expert Panelists Share Best Practices for Managing Third-Party Invoice Review, In-House Invoice Review, and Timekeeper Diversity 

• When NOT to Use an AFA 

• Benchmarking Rates in the Legal Analytics Focus Group 

• Benchmarking Staffing Ratios to Identify Spend Leaks 

• Three Reasons to Introduce Leaderboards to Your Legal Department 

• Building an Outstanding Law Firm Scorecarding Program 

• How to Avoid a Law Department Budget Reduction Next Year

• Building a Solid Data Foundation is the First Step to Driving Better Intelligence

Content in other publications

• Law Departments Must Become More Discerning Purchasers of Legal Tech 

• Legal Operations Can Transform a Law Practice

• Go Beyond E-Billing for Greater Savings 

• E-Billing in No Panacea for Law Departments  

• Does Prestige Equal Quality?  Does it have to?