August 18, 2023

Why Effective Legal Ops Management Makes Business Sense and Frees Up Lawyers to Practice Law

“You can have the best tool in the world, but if nobody’s using it, it’s a failure.”   That’s just one of many insights from UpLevel […]
March 24, 2022

Alternative Legal Service Providers (ALSPs) – Common Use Cases

Common tasks handled by ALSPs include Contract Review and Lifecycle Management, E-discovery and Legal Document Review, Compliance and Investigation support and Flexible Legal Staffing.
March 10, 2022

What is ECA (Early Case Assessment) and Why is it Important?

Early case assessment (ECA) provides an opportunity to understand evidence and also presents opportunities for fact finding and cost savings.
October 5, 2021

Cyber Security Best Practices for Legal

In the latest episode of the Technically Legal Podcast, Matthew Holland, CEO of Field Effect, explains why law firms & legal departments are hacker targets and talks cyber security best practices.
July 19, 2021

Legal Operations Maturity Models – An Overview

A maturity model measures an organization's continuous improvement in a particular discipline and the use of people, process and tech. Maturity models can (and should) be used in legal ops.
June 2, 2021

Alternative Legal Service Providers (ALSP): A Look at the Value and Benefits

Using ALSPs saves money not only because of lower rates, but efficiencies gained from specialization, technology and project management techniques.
April 21, 2021

Data Retention Policies and Legal Hold Practices – Time to Revisit Because of Remote Work?

A distributed workforce may present different document retention and preservation challenges than when employees are in the office.
April 1, 2021

Legal Process Mapping: Look Before You Leap

The first best step to take before implementing legal technology or innovating the way legal work is accomplished is to map the process.
February 10, 2021

Building Legal Workflow Automation (Where to Start?)

Legal workflow automation is a good way for legal teams to get started with legal technology. Here are some ideas about how and where to start.