After years of experience at the forefront of legal innovation, Arbor Law is proud to announce its new legal operations service that offers support to law firms and legal teams by maximising and enhancing their productivity, reducing costs, streamlining processes and focusing on value creation.
The service utilises the skills of the experienced Arbor Law team to undertake a full and forensic analysis of your ‘As Is’ legal function and will work with you to agree your ‘To Be’ state. Once this is decided, its team will put in place a plan to get there through following Arbor’s expertise and by grouping initiatives into those which ensure better service delivery, technology solutions, continuous improvement, people initiatives and good governance.
Additionally, to help ensure buy-in from all levels of your business, Arbor Law’s Legal Operations service can further work with you to help optimise the reporting matrix and strategy alignment and in doing so, ensure that your business is as invested in the in the initiatives you are.
A spokesperson from Arbor Law, said, “From a broader business perspective, a successful Legal Operations programme should also translate into improved satisfaction from sales teams, accelerated contract turnaround times and better MI on live and in progress contracts (including contract value and termination dates.) We look forward to working with you to surface, define and ensure successful outcomes for your Legal Operations aspirations.”
As part of its Legal Operations service, Arbor Law will work with you to identify which initiatives you need to consider, including:
Service Delivery
- End-to-end process mapping and standardisation
- Contracting process, governance, and review (including contract management and self-serve)
- Improving the process of engaging and instructing the legal team
- External counsel instruction enhancements and panel reviews
Technology
- Maximising the technology you already have, for example, Microsoft technology stack
- Optimising legal team exposure on the company intranet and facilitating self-serve
- Discovery and implementation of sophisticated contract management and document automation solutions which offer real value to the legal team and business
Continuous Improvement
- Analysis of legal team activities, such as granular matter, task and complexity reporting via time recording exercises
- Highlighting more efficient work completion and automation solutions including team structure refinement, MI/KPI metric, and dashboard development (to aid internal and exec level reporting)
People
- Optimising legal team meeting coverage, structure, and mode of delivery
- Overhaul and streamlining of legal team and new starter onboarding processes
- Team skills analysis and development
- Overall team structure discovery and refinement
Governance
- General compliance processes
- Risk identification and monitoring
- Claims and dispute reporting
About Arbor Law
Arbor Law comprises of senior lawyers working across diverse legal specialisms and sectors. The team has worked in international law firms as senior in-house lawyers in global businesses, fast growth start-ups and as advisors to world-leading organisations, SMEs, and individuals.
It’s through working in legal teams in industry that Arbor Law has learned to deliver the quality, accessible legal advice that is the cornerstone of the law firm operates today. Arbor Law were then amongst the first lawyers to disrupt the traditional legal business model and provide flexible resourcing solutions to in-house legal teams.
Arbor Law’s experience across many types of businesses means that the law firm can expertly adapt to provide the support you need, hit the ground running and achieve impressive results.
More information
To find out more about Arbor Law and its new Legal Operations service, please visit the website at https://arbor.law/.