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In-House Tip: Embrace Legal Tech Innovations
2 minutes • 25 Mar 25
"Legal tech isn’t the future—it’s the present. In-house lawyers who embrace it gain the edge." – Matthew Glynn (Managing Director, GLS Group)
Why Legal Tech Is So Essential
Legal technology can transform how you work, saving time and reducing risk. Are you using the right tools to enhance your efficiency?
Here’s some of the reasons why:
◼️ Increased Efficiency: Automation tools handle routine tasks, freeing you for higher-value work.
◼️ Improved Accuracy: Technology reduces human error, ensuring more precise legal documents and processes.
◼️ Better Collaboration: Cloud-based platforms enable seamless collaboration with internal teams and external counsel.
◼️ Cost Savings: Smart tech solutions reduce legal spend and improve budget management.
◼️ Enhanced Compliance: Legal tech helps track regulatory changes and ensures timely compliance.
◼️ Data-Driven Decisions: Analytics tools provide insights that support strategic legal and business decisions.
◼️ Contract Management: Tech streamlines contract drafting, review, and storage, reducing bottlenecks.
◼️ Risk Mitigation: Automated alerts and reminders help you stay ahead of deadlines and obligations.
◼️ Knowledge Management: Centralized databases make legal precedents and advice easily accessible.
◼️ Scalable Solutions: As your company grows, legal tech scales with you, ensuring continued support and efficiency.
Conclusion
If you want to future-proof your in-house role—embrace legal tech innovations.
The good news too is that legal technology is not all about software applications. For GLS legal tech is anything that can drive the unit of productivity per unit of effort.
In fact – low tech is often the best tech – read all about this in our In-House Legal Tip: Low Tech First – Always!
Remember: The best in-house lawyers leverage technology to work smarter, not harder.
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Key Tips & Observations: Embrace Legal Tech Innovations
- Innovation mindset: legal tech adoption starts with openness, not tools.
- Problem-led adoption: innovation must respond to real pain points, not trends.
- Foundation check: tech innovation fails without solid intake, process and data.
- Incremental mindset: meaningful innovation rarely happens through big-bang change.
- Use before scale: prove value in small pilots before wider rollout.
- Adoption realism: unused innovation delivers zero benefit.
- Change absorption: legal teams can only absorb limited innovation at once.
- Operational fit: innovative tools must align with how legal actually works.
- Business relevance: innovation must improve speed, cost or predictability.
- Risk awareness: innovation should reduce risk exposure, not introduce new fragility.
- Data enablement: innovative tools are only as powerful as the data they consume.
- Governance discipline: innovation without ownership quickly decays.
- Cultural signal: embracing innovation signals a modern, credible legal function.
- Capability building: innovation should strengthen internal capability, not replace it.
- Long-term view: sustainable innovation is cumulative, not opportunistic.
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