December 16, 2024

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With data in hand from our nearly 50 posts over the past year, we determined which five 2024 blog posts from Elevate Experts garnered the most views. How close did you get to reading all of them? (If the answer is something other than ‘all of them’ – or ‘five’ – here’s your chance to boost your tally!)

#5: Step Changes for Law Departments: Achieving Quantum Leaps – Vince Vetri and Pratik Patel: Legal teams need quantum leaps forward, not incremental improvements. But how can a law department leader achieve this sort of ‘step change’? Five initiatives have demonstrated those sorts of results.

#4: Who Owns Your Contracts? – Ryan Sawyer and Pratik Patel: For companies (and law departments) bedevilled with multiple and inconsistent approaches to transaction management, Elevate Experts Ryan Sawyer and Pratik Patel propose a new department – a Central Transactions Office – tasked with helping the entire business with transactions and contracts in a consistent and optimised manner.

#3: From Buzzword to Breakthrough: Why AI is the Real Deal in Litigation – Nicole Nehama Auerbach: AI is transforming litigation, but many are unsure where to start. By using AI platforms for discovery responses and analysing massive deposition datasets, litigation can be handled more efficiently, at a lower cost, with better results.

#2: GenAI for Law Is Like Google Maps (for Lawyers) – Pratik Patel: Generative AI for law will serve a role analogous to Google Maps – assisting, but not replacing, the human ‘driving’ a legal matter. Working with large sets of documents, AI can identify helpful insights for practitioners that human reviewers cannot, but is not – and will not be – a substitute for human judgment and decision-making.

…and the Number One Most-Read Elevate Post in 2024 is… (drumroll, please):

Looking Back, Looking Forward: 2024 Edition (January 2024) – Elevate CEO Liam Brown: A look at the challenges law departments, law firms, and law companies will face in 2024 – and their opportunities to modernise, optimise, and innovate to add business value and become more competitive.

We look forward to providing you with more posts in 2025 from our Elevate Experts!