Legal Operations

Too important to ignore, too tedious to tolerate. That’s the tension most in-house legal teams feel when…

In this guide to legal spend reporting, you’ll learn the key criteria for success, the top reports…

Code alone cannot solve a process as sophisticated as e-billing (although our developers will continue trying). You'll…

Open the bill, check for errors, forward to Finance, repeat. Invoice approval is one of those tedious…

Effective legal billing guidelines can fundamentally transform your law firm relationships. They have the power to push…

The end results of an effective legal billing process are easy to recognize: Fair prices, fast payments,…

Listen. We get it. Legal billing guidelines are hard to get excited about. So if your team…

Editor’s Note: This post was inspired by a panel discussion on the topic of “In-House Lawyers of…

On June 20th, 2019, Brightflag hosted a panel discussion in Melbourne which explored the future of the in-house…

Brightflag’s CEO Ian Nolan and Head of Product Sarah Scales presented at CLOC Las Vegas 2019. Their…

Executing legal work is the core function of corporate legal teams. The management of that work, including…

The Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC) brings a host of legal professionals together every year so they…

The legal invoice review process is part of the job description for corporate legal teams. Once outside…

Insights from Legal Leaders on Resourcing Legal Work

Data and broader skill sets for new lawyers are driving factors

Working with your CFO to provide trusted advice to senior leadership

This is the third of a three-part series on the key themes we took away from the…

This is the second of a three-part series on the key themes we took away from the…

This is the first of a three-part series on the key themes we took away from the…

Technology doesn’t implement itself – it takes people to do it.

This is the second in a series of posts about litigation costs facing corporate legal departments. It…

Cyberattacks, data breaches, information security. Nothing is more topical (or important) for legal departments and their law…

By now we have all heard the term “A.I.” or artificial intelligence many times over, whether reading…

This is the first in a series posts from Brightflag on litigation costs for corporates. In it…

This is the second of a two-part Brightflag series on legal billing guidelines and invoice review, find…

For any legal department, a clear and concise set of outside counsel billing guidelines is one of…

“Law Firm Rates Are Way Too High”, declared a recent headline in Bloomberg Big Law Business. In…

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