As companies experience rapid growth, with a significant increase in employees or revenue, the pressure on all departments to operate efficiently and be metrics-driven intensifies. For General Counsels (GCs) and Chief Legal Officers (CLOs), the ability to manage and track all legal work from intake to reporting is essential. This visibility is not only essential for smooth operations but also for providing leadership with the insights they need to gauge the legal department's growing impact on the business.
In many legal departments, work is scattered across multiple platforms and processes, creating a fragmented landscape that is difficult to navigate. This disarray complicates leadership's ability to oversee and track all legal matters, often leading to inefficiencies and wasted time as team members hunt through disjointed systems for information. Without a centralized view of all matters, their statuses and their owners, legal teams find themselves bogged down in manual reporting, which is prone to errors and often lacks key data. This reactive approach prevents legal departments from scaling their impact to match the company's growth, keeping them from being strategic and proactive in their operations.
Further, without the right tools to gather and provide legal analytics, legal teams struggle to advocate for additional resources or demonstrate their expanding impact to leadership. The reliance on general and non-legal tools like Jira and spreadsheets only perpetuates these issues, reinforcing the need for a specialized solution that can meet the distinct needs of legal, especially as the company scales.
