Challenge
- Customer’s business experiencing significant business challenges and initiated internal operational changes and cost consolidation measures
- Legal business function was driving operational changes focusing on cost management, strategy development/execution, process improvement, and technology adoption
Solution
- Elevate placed a legal operations consultant with relevant in-depth experience supporting in-house legal teams to develop and mature operations through a mix of organisational design, process improvement, and technology initiatives.
- Elevate talent quickly grasped challenges drawing from experience with other similar organisations and developed an operational review program to focus on key opportunities.
- Initiated supplier consolidation program to improve law department suppliers’ strategic alignment and cost management measures to manage overall legal budget
- Developed internal legal budgeting program to introduce transparency and matter budgeting planning and control
- Built business cases to introduce legal technology to improve team efficiency by deploying document management systems, legal process automation tool, and using eSignatures to reduce overall turnaround time on contracts
